John K Mitchell's Misc Blog

I have just been reading Matt Cutts (the head of Google's Webspam team) blog on sponsored conversations which I found interesting.

It seems that Google are looking for blogs where people are paid to make posts to their blogs as they feel that this people are posting to influence the results on the Google search engines. Google seem to be saying that it is ok to be paid to post on blogs if you use a nofollow attribute on the link but I wonder how many people know that this is *required* by Google or that their blogs may be marked so that they "are not trusted in Google’s algorithms"


This led to to thinking - perhaps it is better that I have never been asked to post an entry on this blog that I am paid for, in fact I have never been asked to post an entry for free either. That may be part of the reason why the postings are few and far between, but I believe that if I am spending time talking about something then it's got to be worth saying and most of what I come across on the net nowadays is not really worth talking about.

If you run your own blog have a look at Matts post and see what you think.