**UPDATE** This is Official, the screenshots pretty much say it all. It appears Google has stopped showing ads for keywords related to the link buying market.
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Very Interesting...seems Google’s hell bent on removing any kind of paid links.WOuld be very iunteresting to know how their algorithm plans to identify paid links and differentiates them from the regular links
This change will blast my AdSense revenue. Even on a page about text link selling and buying they show unrelated ads now. I’d prefer public service ads or the charity stuff I host instead of totally off-topic stuff.
See http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/selling-links-that-pass-pagerank/.Matt clearly stated Google will stop showing those ads - as per requested by the SEO community. No surprises here.I feel sorry for the people that used to make money on those keywords, but if their revenue dips due to this change, they have the SEO community to thank for it.
I’m not surprised. That was long overdue and BTW I support it. I’d just prefer to see the red cross ads on my pages, not ads for database tools and similar stuff relevant for other pages.I guess in most cases slightly rephrased ads will show.
After not being able to find info on what happened, I posted, then fell on to the graywolf vs cutts fun. That’s where I read cutts saying they stopped showing the ads. So I added the update last night linking directly to the comment where matt said this. What I think is funny is some keywords work and some don’t. Maybe they should use their own keyword suggestion tool. @Sebastian, that does bring up an interesting point with regard to adsense ads. I underestand their points, but they sure seem to be acting like a teenager with how they’re handling everything.
@halfdeck... here’s the direct link http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/selling-links-that-pass-pagerank/#comment-117818
Teenager ... not exactly. I dunno why it took that long. From Google’s perspective that was due since the beginning, or overdue at least since 5 years or so when Bob Massa got hit. From a link brokers perspective, will that hurt?
I can’t speak for all, but personnally it doesn’t affect us at all. We were no longer using google to advertise. We have other streams of traffic that is a lot better than what their system had to offer. Converation rates with google average 1:80 and the other stream of traffic is a constant 1:4. So no, it doesn’t hurt us at all. Just prevents less competition from trying to get a jumpstart.
Ads still coming up for "text ads", "inbound links"...
Interesting. At least Google are practicing what they are preaching.There are still cloaking ads around though...