{"id":1992,"date":"2007-12-03T11:26:21","date_gmt":"2007-12-03T18:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andreaswacker.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/03\/paid-to-blog\/"},"modified":"2007-12-03T11:26:21","modified_gmt":"2007-12-03T18:26:21","slug":"paid-to-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andreaswacker.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/03\/paid-to-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"paid to blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Cutts , the google quality czsar, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mattcutts.com\/blog\/selling-links-that-pass-pagerank\">explains<a \/> why they reduced the importance of weblogs participating in  pay per post programs. I feel the same way and <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.andreaswacker.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/21\/spam-human-one\/\">block them since May<\/a> in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogsnow.com\">BlogsNow<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, and extremely simplified, I admit, it seems to be the business model of Google to sell the truth. Which makes it valuable. They steer most of the internet traffic. But if they would fail, people would notice. As long as Yahoo and MSN still exist and could in theory kinda half ass a hypothetical un-ethical google if it came to it, it&#8217;s good busyness for for Google to stick to the truth.<\/p>\n<p>Which is not what usually is going on:<\/p>\n<p>A question asked, and no answer:<br \/>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/BwOd7MCrnyc&#038;rel=1\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/BwOd7MCrnyc&#038;rel=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Same pattern here:<br \/>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/44w-RYurbN4&#038;rel=1\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/44w-RYurbN4&#038;rel=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>So, my simple reaction is, if people like politicians and Apple-PR are not answering questions, then I will not listen to what they are trying to say. 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