No More Ads
Michelle on Feb 13 2008 at 11:07 pm | Filed under: The Personal
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Well, Google busted this blog’s PR down to 0 as well for my sin of doing paid advertisements, which they see as paid links. That means I don’t get to do any more ads for this site. What I don’t get is why they don’t go after the sites that facilitate it, who have nice PRs of 7, for example. Bloggrrl got demoted from a 0 to an N/A, which I really HOPE doesn’t mean that they are going to take me off the search engine radar. That would suck.
Although I’ll miss the money from the ads, I’m happy to get MY blog back. I never intended to use Singing the Sky to make money, but once I figured out I could make a grand a month doing this, it was pretty hard to resist.
Anyway, real writing is back! It’ll be nice to take a break from all that while I scheme new ways to make money online. 
I don’t get it. You aren’t supposed to do ads on a blog? Can’t you write anything you want? Hmmmm…So, those people who do make money off their sites must have their own websites, not hosted ones. I am confused. What do all the numbers mean?
I won’t say anything except that I’m glad.
I am a little confused by all of this. Do you mean that Google doesn’t allow advertising on their hosted blogs? If so, that stinks. I was toying with the idea of trying to earn enough on my blog to at least pay for the cost of running the site after I retire.
@Ken + Margaret:
Quoth Google, “Buying and selling links is a normal part of the economy of the web when done for advertising purposes, and not for manipulation of search results. Links purchased for advertising should be designated as such. This can be done in several ways, such as:
Adding a rel=”nofollow” attribute to the [a] tag”
In other words Google allows websites to direct traffic to other websites, but not to try and boost their page rank artificially.
Well, I don’t understand it all, but I’m bummed you’re missing out on the extra moola! Glad to hear “real writing” is back though! xx, JP/deb
I just wrote a report about an attack upon my right to honestly blog about teaching. Please read it and give me your comments.
I’m glad you’re back! It was getting a bit weird, but I was glad you had the extra cash. I’ll be happy to read your voice again.