Comments on: Newsday Penalized For Selling Links http://www.netpaths.net/blog/newsday-penalized-for-selling-links/ Simple Search Engine Optimization Steps Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:13:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: CVOS http://www.netpaths.net/blog/newsday-penalized-for-selling-links/comment-page-1/#comment-1348 CVOS Mon, 14 Jul 2008 12:25:03 +0000 http://www.netpaths.net/blog/newsday-penalized-for-selling-links/#comment-1348 Brent, it looks like Google was extremely kind to you & Newsday, it took less than 1 week to get fixed using <a href=http://groups.google.com/group/Google_Webmaster_Help-Indexing/browse_thread/thread/551739e42b1ade08/" rel="nofollow">Google groups</a>. Sean I suggest you read the post & links before commenting. Brent, it looks like Google was extremely kind to you & Newsday, it took less than 1 week to get fixed using Google groups.

Sean I suggest you read the post & links before commenting.

]]> By: Sean Maguire http://www.netpaths.net/blog/newsday-penalized-for-selling-links/comment-page-1/#comment-1347 Sean Maguire Mon, 14 Jul 2008 01:06:46 +0000 http://www.netpaths.net/blog/newsday-penalized-for-selling-links/#comment-1347 I love when someone blogs as if they know what the hell is going on, without doing any research. "This is nothing personal Brent..." What's nothing personal? That you're erroneously slandering a Chicago Tribune property by calling them a link seller without even checking to see if your careless assumptions are factual? Well, they're not factual, so if I were you, I'd issue an apology to your community of readers for publishing bullshit and I'd retract the erroneous elements in this post. I love when someone blogs as if they know what the hell is going on, without doing any research.

“This is nothing personal Brent…”

What’s nothing personal? That you’re erroneously slandering a Chicago Tribune property by calling them a link seller without even checking to see if your careless assumptions are factual?

Well, they’re not factual, so if I were you, I’d issue an apology to your community of readers for publishing bullshit and I’d retract the erroneous elements in this post.

]]> By: Brent D. Payne http://www.netpaths.net/blog/newsday-penalized-for-selling-links/comment-page-1/#comment-1346 Brent D. Payne Sun, 13 Jul 2008 23:26:12 +0000 http://www.netpaths.net/blog/newsday-penalized-for-selling-links/#comment-1346 But they did penalize Newsday and it took us 'a big guy' months to convince them to remove it. I started working on it in February when I got to Tribune. Newsday nor Tribune received any penalty warning either and we did all the steps we were suppose to do. It's not about the big guy versus the little guy. It's about a slowed process of forgiveness and lack of communication from Google to the 'offending sites'. This needs to be vastly improved. What good is a penalty warning if Google doesn't use it? Brent D. Payne SEO Manager Tribune But they did penalize Newsday and it took us ‘a big guy’ months to convince them to remove it. I started working on it in February when I got to Tribune.

Newsday nor Tribune received any penalty warning either and we did all the steps we were suppose to do.

It’s not about the big guy versus the little guy. It’s about a slowed process of forgiveness and lack of communication from Google to the ‘offending sites’. This needs to be vastly improved. What good is a penalty warning if Google doesn’t use it?

Brent D. Payne
SEO Manager
Tribune

]]> By: CVOS http://www.netpaths.net/blog/newsday-penalized-for-selling-links/comment-page-1/#comment-1345 CVOS Sun, 13 Jul 2008 23:01:12 +0000 http://www.netpaths.net/blog/newsday-penalized-for-selling-links/#comment-1345 Hi Brent - this is nothing personal. My problem is with Google and their inconsistent method of dealing with penalties that never favors the little guy like <a href="http://www.seo-scoop.com/2008/01/24/matt-cutts-why-am-i-still-being-punished/" rel="nofollow">Donna's</a> example. Feel free to post screenshots, I'm happy to upddate this post. Hi Brent – this is nothing personal. My problem is with Google and their inconsistent method of dealing with penalties that never favors the little guy like Donna’s example.

Feel free to post screenshots, I’m happy to upddate this post.

]]> By: Brent D. Payne http://www.netpaths.net/blog/newsday-penalized-for-selling-links/comment-page-1/#comment-1344 Brent D. Payne Sun, 13 Jul 2008 21:40:05 +0000 http://www.netpaths.net/blog/newsday-penalized-for-selling-links/#comment-1344 You may want to update your screenshot. I added another dozen nofollows. I left the other links open due to either inability for me to edit the code on the fly or because we own the sites and I see nothing wrong with linking to a site we own. I will talk with the design team tomorrow though about why we even have the site index box at the bottom of the page. I nofollowed them a while ago because I thought I should and didn't have the time and resources to discuss actual removal of the box with the design team. However, NONE of these are sold links. We own them or a portion of them and we editorial choose to link to them. Brent D. Payne SEO Manager Tribune You may want to update your screenshot. I added another dozen nofollows. I left the other links open due to either inability for me to edit the code on the fly or because we own the sites and I see nothing wrong with linking to a site we own.

I will talk with the design team tomorrow though about why we even have the site index box at the bottom of the page. I nofollowed them a while ago because I thought I should and didn’t have the time and resources to discuss actual removal of the box with the design team.

However, NONE of these are sold links. We own them or a portion of them and we editorial choose to link to them.

Brent D. Payne
SEO Manager
Tribune

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