Pico_Train - 7:24 am on May 17, 2007 (gmt 0)

"First, text links ads do not create much traffic at all, if any. "

That's not quite right. Text link ads can bring oodles of good traffic. On top of that, I suppose Yahoo is gonna get clobbered then by this latest threat? Nail those link sellers, nail them! Oh doesn't google sell links?

"Your method of madness would only create a situation like a "weapons race". Those who can spend thousands and thousands of dollars buying text links will dominate the SERPS."

Yes madness, complete and utter madness. Just to clarify things as well, those that buy text links in my niche don't outrank me either for my terms for several sites. I've only ever bought a Yahoo link, maybe I will ask to put nofollow on it so that I can piss my $299 away instead of saving for my child's education.

It's also possible that Google is buying goodwill, what do you think?

Pay people per post to spread good will in forums such as this one? I like to call these the Google Cheerleaders. Pay them to defend their latest venture to weed out anything that might compete with any of their products and counter any ill favoured notion that the boots are getting a bit small for them?

[edited by: Pico_Train at 7:30 am (utc) on May 17, 2007]