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Paid Bloggers Still Get Google Downgrades

Bare Feet Studios

To its credit, Google also penalized its own Japan division who used the pay per post tactic in an attempt to compete against Yahoo. Bloggers who are compensated can use the “nofollow&# tag within their outbound links to keep those links from being tagged by Google as paid content.

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The Most Important Blog Post You'll Probably Never Read

Viper Chill

target="_blank" rel="nofollow"> 148 Comments Benny the Irish polyglot says: March 22, 2010 at 11:17 am Great post as always! What that is…has to come from the person and their interests, their talents, their knowledge base. Playing it safe is riskier than taking risks. Don’t believe me?