Traffic or PageRank ?
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With the recent crackdown on paid link by Google, it's better to look at traffic first and PageRank second. Some bloggers started to change the way they advertise now. They started to use the nofollow for paid links. I may have to do the same thing with 1 Cool file to be safe.
Why?
On my blog and mostly on 1 Cool file, I have a very large percent(80%) of visitors that come from Google. Each time an entry(file or blog) is added, the chances increase that they land on one of my page first. I noticed that over the last few weeks and this trend is going upward. So, I don't want to be in Google doghouse for now. Eventually, I want people to go to my site first and then on Google. 
Having natural link is better and also help to be found in the first pages according to some.
Conclusion
On 1 Cool file, I added an affiliate program and more features for reviewers(bloggers). You can find files too(freeware/shareware/themes/plugins...). I think I would not be penalized later(first PR update in 2008) because it's more than a blog/file directory.
Google should offer a TrafficRank ranking using Google Analytics. That would be better because PageRank does not mean necessary high traffic. Plus, the burden would be on webmasters to add the code on like Alexa where the user must use a toolbar.
Will you buy links for traffic or PageRank?
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RickH said:
All this concern about what Google wants burns my butt. Google is the biggest hypocrite on the block and we all fall in line obediently behind them. On this very page lamenting how we must clean up our act and never but never engage in buying links or paying people to do anything to enhance our stature or traffic – on this very page are Google ads promoting link selling and PR building. Meanwhile the big players are laughing at all of us little paeons playing by the rules. They just buy millions of dollars worth of advertising (much of it from Google) and essentially buy the traffic, rankings, and profits, that we scrounge around trying to get “ethically”. What a joke!
November 7th, 2007 at 9:19 pm -
Steve McGrath said:
Google don’t want us to buy ranking. Traffic is ok.
It’s true that Adwords via Adsense in this page promote buying PR. Yes, it’s ironic.
November 7th, 2007 at 9:41 pm
