Is Google Playing Favorites w/Internet Marketers?!?! (screenshots)
I surfed over to Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim website, started reading, glanced over to the sidebar, and saw this...
WTF?!?!? Oh, no, say it ain't so...
That's a PR6 domain, getting 4,000+ Unique Visitors a day, according to Compete.com. Andy Beal's a highly respected marketer & published author with over 15,000 Twitter followers... so you would think that somebody over at "Search Engine Central Command" would notice something so blatant.
I can't decide if I'm more amused or annoyed. But I suspect that if I or almost anyone else on this forum had a popular IM site where we were pushing text link sales on our home page, the Big G would de-index us in a heartbeat.
So why the double-standard? What gives? Who do you have to bribe or sleep with over at Mountain View to get a free pass like that?
If you have genuine inside info, shoot me a PM and we'll JV on the WSO.
Don't worry, be happy.