Big Brother is watching....so what's next for you? | Bloggers Lair | Yakezie Forums

As we all know "Big Brother" struck down a few weeks ago and punished some by either reducing or totally bringing the PR rank down to zero.

A pretty solid discussion that came of it >>> http://yakezie.com/forums/blog…..n-to-zero/

Some have tried and were successful in getting their PR ranking back by simply "no-following" ads. It's a start, and it may fix the problem temporarily for some, but raises another more bigger problem in terms of legal ramifications. After all a deal with an advertiser is a legal agreement for whatever time one agrees (1,3,6 or 12 months) depending on the ad.

Sustainable PF wrote a solid comment, that makes a ton of sense and that I'm sure opened up some eyes (one that I agree with too):

nofollowing ads where the expectation was that the ads were dofollow could well end up with legal ramifications. If you made a deal and the deal was reviewed and payment was made changing said deal after the fact could be problematic.

Beside the moral/ethical question of changing the terms of an agreement w/o permission from the 2nd party it sure isn't "Yakezie like" to do such a thing IMO.  If you made a deal you should stick to it. 

Congratulating people who recovered their PR using under-handed or sneaky methods doesn't seem quite right to me.

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And keeping the above in mind, I wanted to open up the discussion again by asking:

What are you or will be doing differently in terms of advertising on your site(s) now since "big brother" is watching?

I do plan on making changes, however, it isn't because of this latest hit.  I'm making changes so that I diversify and try and increase income.  I'm tired of depending too much on one source (adsense and private ads) to make up all the income.  Google scares me only in so much as they seem to control about 90% of search engine traffic.  If I were to get deindexed, and not get reindexed, I'm pretty sure I'd walk away and start something new.  Maybe. ;)

Sidenote: Sandy, is that a new logo I spot?  When you rolling it out on the site?

Sandy @ yesiamcheap said:

I've been playing around with it.  Now sure if I like it or not.  I need to make my site look better put together.  The Scotch tape isn't working anymore.

Granted, it might look a bit different in an overall design, but I like the logo.  It's whimsical, and fun!

Post edited 3:18 pm – April 18, 2012 by retireby40

I got hit with the big G slap and will work on diversifying the blog income. 

I don't think the latest Google punishment was because someone reported the sites.  Google had a widely publicized crackdown on private blog networks – putting some of them out of business – and many Yakezie sites were included in the crackdown. It wasn't like Google was just going after people here.

I'm also trying to diversify my income but Google is making that difficult.  My Adsense income has been cut in half and with Google reducing my search engine traffic it is making it much more difficult to make affiliate income too.  I have to find some income streams that aren't so dependent on Google.