My first action for 2008
Written on January 1, 2008 – 9:48 pm | by admin
First of all, happy new year to all of you and I hope 2008 brings you lots of profits.
Second, I want to spend a few minutes to talk about the first thing I did on the first day of 2008. I removed Text-Link-Ads from my highest ranked and most profitable site. Why did I do this?
A couple of reasons actually. First of all, I am a bit worried that Google will remove my site or seriously drop my ranking in their index. I know some people will say that Google is using their monopoly power to scare webmasters and control the World Wide Web; honestly though, it is their index and they have every right to add or remove whichever site they please. As far as I am concerned, I want to be in their index and rank well so I don’t want to give them reason to remove me.
The second reason and I would say the most important is TLA itself. First of all, I work hard to promote my sites. So, when I sell a link why should I give 50% of my revenue to them? It is not like finding people to sell links to is hard! They are everywhere. Not only that but TLA’s prices are terrible. You would think that after Google bitch slapped so many webmasters for selling links (the Pay Per Post publishers got hit the hardest, apparently) TLA would have at least increased the prices to compensate those still in the program and willing to take the risk. But nothing like that happened. TLA makes enough money as it is taking advantage of webmasters’ hard labor and so they made no effort to address Google’s war on selling links.
Because of that, I decided that my most important site which ranks well and receives a considerable amount of traffic is not worth risking to line the pockets of the MediaWhiz (owners of TLA) people.
That was my first action for 2008.
