Thread: Shoemoney vs Matt Cutts

Originally Posted by britishguy

Agree 100% bogart

It is incredibly naïve the arrogance and hubris that this company G utilizes either directly behind ‘smoke and mirrors’ because they do not have the guts – to come out openly and declare that this is this, instead they dish out penalties et al – executed by face less killers - slaying folks who are legally making money – they think they are culling seals

Of the three major search engines, Google is by far the best. But you are right that they are shooting themselves in the foot.

The "paid" lunancy is diminishing their brand. PageRank has got to rank as one of the greatest marketing tools of all time. It built the google brand. But, Google's crusade against "paid" is killing the gimick.

I hear term "illegal" linking all the time the time. How is linking illegal?

FTC plans to crack down on Paid Links

1) FTC plans to issue new guidelines this summer regulating affiliate marketing.

2) FTC says the guidelines would cover paying some Twitter users to post short items.

FTC plans to monitor blogs for claims, payments - Yahoo! Finance

It looks like all of those shareholder dollars Google plowed into the Obama campaign bought them some serious influence in Washington. Google wants to kill any type of Internet marketing that isn't AdWords/AdSense. Affiliate marketing and paid tweets are obviously on the top of their target list.

Of course, the FTC is the Federal Trade Commission. They may be able to effectively harass Americans, but it seems to me that most of the rest of the planet is going to tell the FTC where they can shove their regulations.

Originally Posted by Will.Spencer

it seems to me that most of the rest of the planet is going to tell the FTC where they can shove their regulations.

I was thinking the same.

Regulations up yours...

Originally Posted by Will.Spencer

Of course, the FTC is the Federal Trade Commission. They may be able to effectively harass Americans, but it seems to me that most of the rest of the planet is going to tell the FTC where they can shove their regulations.

Sweet!!! So that's the card spammers were waiting for to legalize their off-shoring offers. I can even see a twitter.in in the make just to funnel those tweets into the US mainstream with no risk. Will the FTC stop that, ha? how? Are they gonna close collecta.com, oneriot.com, topsy.com, tweefind.com, twazzup.com and other twitter alternative engines?

They are opening a huge can of worms that can make more licit the illicit. #FAIL!

Originally Posted by Will.Spencer

It looks like all of those shareholder dollars Google plowed into the Obama campaign bought them some serious influence in Washington. Google wants to kill any type of Internet marketing that isn't AdWords/AdSense. Affiliate marketing and paid tweets are obviously on the top of their target list.

Google is starting to get political. Google CEO Eric Schmidt was appointed to the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/techchron/detail?blogid=19&entry_id=39176

Originally Posted by Will.Spencer

Of course, the FTC is the Federal Trade Commission. They may be able to effectively harass Americans, but it seems to me that most of the rest of the planet is going to tell the FTC where they can shove their regulations.

The FTC want to go after "pay to blog" as well.

It looks like there will be new meaning to the term "illegal linking".

Originally Posted by GlobalFusion

Sweet!!! So that's the card spammers were waiting for to legalize their off-shoring offers. I can even see a twitter.in in the make just to funnel those tweets into the US mainstream with no risk. Will the FTC stop that, ha? how? Are they gonna close collecta.com, oneriot.com, topsy.com, tweefind.com, twazzup.com and other twitter alternative engines?

They are opening a huge can of worms that can make more licit the illicit. #FAIL!

It depends on where the companies that pay for the ads are based.

Originally Posted by bogart

It looks like there will be new meaning to the term "illegal linking".

They will take my keyboard only when they pry it from my cold dead hands!

Err.... maybe I shouldn't give the government any ideas.

"I’ll appoint the nation’s first Chief Technology Officer." - Barrack Obama

Originally Posted by bogart

FTC plans to crack down on Paid Links

1) FTC plans to issue new guidelines this summer regulating affiliate marketing.

2) FTC says the guidelines would cover paying some Twitter users to post short items.

FTC plans to monitor blogs for claims, payments - Yahoo! Finance

I dont think the FTC needs more "plans to have guidelines" they just need to enforce what they already have.

They already have tons of stuff relating to disclosure and even in reguards to blogs but its all suggestions... which is what this will be.

I hate how Google always refers to these FTC suggestions like they were law.... they are just suggestions.

This disclosure thing is just absurd IMO anyway.

I could make a checkbox that rotated 50% of the time which on 1 hand would say "I agree I am a idiot and you can resell all my personal info" and I think you would find the results astonishing.

That is because we have lost all site of personal responsibility and judgment and are numb to these "privacy policies".

When we create a new website/service It costs me a minimum of 2500 to our legal just for all the privacy policies and terms of service (of which I am sure nobody ever reads).

The last thing we need is more disclosure.

I vote for more people using there heads.

Originally Posted by Shoemoney

I dont think the FTC needs more "plans to have guidelines" they just need to enforce what they already have.

They already have tons of stuff relating to disclosure and even in reguards to blogs but its all suggestions... which is what this will be.

I hate how Google always refers to these FTC suggestions like they were law.... they are just suggestions.

This disclosure thing is just absurd IMO anyway.

I could make a checkbox that rotated 50% of the time which on 1 hand would say "I agree I am a idiot and you can resell all my personal info" and I think you would find the results astonishing.

That is because we have lost all site of personal responsibility and judgment and are numb to these "privacy policies".

When we create a new website/service It costs me a minimum of 2500 to our legal just for all the privacy policies and terms of service (of which I am sure nobody ever reads).

The last thing we need is more disclosure.

I vote for more people using there heads.

It always seems the case that big business is in bed with big government.

Excessive regulation stiffles small business to the gain of the big corporations.

Regulating paid tweets is crazy.