Comments on: Using ReviewMe to Boost Your Google Juice? Matt Cutts Says “Think Again”

By: Jessicadoyle.ca · CRASH went my computer after hitting the subscribe link on ReviewMe.com

Fri, 01 Dec 2006 08:59:02 +0000

[...] Dr. Tony Hung writes of having to possibly use the “rel = Nofollow” tag in his second reviewME post, Using ReviewMe to Boost Your Google Juice? Matt Cutts Says “Think Again”. Ok, so I ask you Tony what is and how do I implement this “rel = Nofollow” tag and what exactly, does this mean in human non-programmatic english words. [...]

By: engtech

engtech — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 03:56:19 +0000

shane: Google did a major change to their algorithm since last weekend. Seo Blackhat (some people might find the link offensive) talks about it.

http://seoblackhat.com/2006/11/21/free-porn/

By: Tony

Tony — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 02:39:29 +0000

Franky — holiday time is totally correct.
However, Shane’s problem started on November 9th; well before the thanksgiving slowdown — it sounds like he has more than holiday woes to deal with.

Shane –if you ever figure out what happened, let us know.

By: franky

franky — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 00:51:56 +0000

Shane, it are holidays in the US. Many people are less online, even not at work. That could justify a drop in your traffic. A review of RM surely doesn't justify any punishment by Google's algo, and knowing Matt he would surely clearly have stated it, if they were to punish those 2 services particularly. But quoted sentence explains a lot. Yes Google knows the advantage of mentioned services to improve your PR. But also Google (Matt) do believe in disclosure. Disclosure which is compulsary for ReviewMe reviews. And the disclosure mention at the top of the entry surely makes it easy for Google's algo to punish not only RM, but also the advertiser. No, Google/Matt rather advice you to use rel="NoFollow", which seems very appropriate in most cases, unless of course the service/company you review your blog topic matches. I think Matt's calling is a call to ethics. Nothing more, nothing less.

By: Tony

Tony — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 00:15:51 +0000

Good luck! ;)

By: Shane

Shane — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 00:15:15 +0000

I did a review for ReviewMe itself. To be honest I think it is a combination of everything that I mentioned above. I am trying to fix all of it right now to get my site back to its “glory” days :)

By: Tony

Tony — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 23:48:30 +0000

Its all good Shane … did you do a review of ReviewMe for them? Or did you do another review for another site? Or did you act as an advertiser and pay someone to review one of your sites?

It would be interesting — if you got penalized — which side of the fence your “offence” would be on.

PS Good luck in trying to figure it out whatever it is.