lost PR cause of TLA

[goneinthesun]

after joining TLA for 3 months. I see my site lose PR. I am not 100 percent sure if it is TLA. that is why i want to see if anyone else have similar experience.

[vincevincevince]

I can put my hand up to that. And removing all TLA caused ranking returns within a few weeks.

[cabowabo]

Ditto here.

[Kristos]

by 'joining' do you mean they are paying you or you are paying them?

[vincevincevince]

In my case, 'joining' as in selling

[Visit Thailand]

Sorry but what is TLA?

[vincevincevince]

Text link ads

[eljefe3]

More importantly, did you lose rankings and traffic, or only outdated PR from the toolbar?
Yes I know that PR is what allows you to sell links, but you should be able to monetize your site besides selling links via a broker.

[AussieWebmaster]

Apart from the PR drop did you lose positions for specific keywords?

Interesting if Google is dropping PR for sites selling links - this one is worth doing some homework on as it should impact all text link behavior across Google not just TLA

[Marcia]

I've never sold links in any way, but my concern is that if, let's say hypothetically, I have a site dedicated to shoes and another site dedicated to socks; if I link from my shoe site to my socks site to send traffic over, that text link might be considered a paid link even though I'm certainly not paying myself and they're both my own sites, which would be obvious. Nofollow wouldn't be a sensible option, because obviously I trust my own site.

What I'm trying to say is that I'm concerned about false positives.

[Skeptic]

Uh-oh. I have TLA on one site (about 3 months now). Did not lose any PR yet, but this is good info to know about.