Buying Google +1 votes

That was kind of my take on it too. But I just ran across it today and wanted opinions. But I do agree, 100 votes and then nada - looks bad.

This is something I'm curious about also. I think you would have to assume Google knows if you are receiving an out of the ordinary amount of +1's. I mean just look how low the count is for a regular sites. Then somehow your site magically gets a thousand plus ones and each visitor only stays on the page for 2 seconds without checking out any of the content.

I'm willing to bet that the only people benefiting from this will be the people selling plus ones.

I would listen to this guy.

Unless, of course, you're just trying to flip your site for some fast cash.

I would imagine Google progammers have their bots look out for this kind of activity. If your site suddenly gets 50 or 100 +1 votes and then barely nothing for the next few months, it would certainly way a red flag against your site.

This. They don't stick, and nothing happens to your site when they disappear.

The amount of utter bull in this thread is astonishing.

Give me a break. Thank God that everything that people say is "illegal" isn't really illegal at all. There would be nothing but prisons. Google makes the rules. Gaming Google algorithms is neither illegal nor immoral.

Rape and murder and theft and a lot of other bad things are illegal and immoral... try to gain an advantage in a stinking search engine is not.

...and you probably have never had any ranking benefits.
Fake In. Fake Out...

I think that google 1 would work very well if it was oned in a natural way. Their algorithm probably will easy detect fake ones. The algorithm probably looks at the traffic, ip addresses, frequency of ones along the time, how long the visitor that voted one stayed on the page, etc...They will probably look at where the ones came from and if the same pattern goes to other website is easy to catch. Their algorithm can be tricked but I don't think it's easy. But ya as I said that natural ones will work extremely well even better then backlinks.

Bought +1 will most likely not work. Google intergrated this system to determine whether a site is liked by its visitors, but they are darn good at identifying genuine +1 from the fake ones.

So the only option is to provide great value and content with your sites and get those +1 in the natural way.

I agree with sbucciarel with the beautiful picture :-) She's got the right attitude. Google doesn't give a rat's butt about us. It's like Calvin said when Hobbs asked him why he was telling the monsters under the bed about all the weapons he had...."They lie.....I lie."

Google is in it for one thing...to sell ad space (just like newspapers and magazines) and I can see why they're trying to find meaningful metrics that relate to real 'eyeballs' on page content. The content is just the bait.

I'm doing a Fiverr article for somebody right now about buying Google+1's. I don't know them 'from Adam' but it's obvious that somebody doesn't know what they're doing because the keyword I was assigned was 'buy Google 1'. No such thing...literally speaking, right?

I've been doing some research and I really am kinda curious how these +1 shops do it. They all claim they're perfectly legit but...c'mon...we all know it ain't exactly like that, don't we?

But....I have to write the article so I'll suck it up and put on my 'spin' hat. The thread here pretty much validates what I suspected.

Regards,
Art

p.s. I happen to be somewhat involved in the call center industry now, in Manila, and we have noticed that virtually none of the call centers are using G+1's. We've got a lot more than any of them because our fearless leader things it'll eventually be a benefit. I think he's probably right but it's a shame that some people thing it, by itself, is a magic pill. Some of the prices I see on these sites that sell the service are unbelievable.