While doing some research, an astute coworker of mine noticed that the pay Google $10,000 per year to be part of their program.
Before you claim I’m overreacting, let me state my case with some evidence:
The only way to get a link on Corporate Technology page:Google’s most prominent blogger Matt Cutts has Wikipedia page on Pagerank:PageRank also considers the importance of each page that casts a vote, as votes from some pages are considered to have greater value, thus giving the linked page greater value. Important pages receive a higher PageRank and appear at the top of the search results. Google’s technology uses the collective intelligence of the web to determine a page’s importance. There is no human involvement or manipulation of results, which is why users have come to trust Google as a source of objective information untainted by paid placement
In early 2005, Google implemented a new value, “nofollow”, for the rel attribute of HTML link and anchor elements, so that website builders and bloggers can make links that Google will not consider for the purposes of PageRank — they are links that no longer constitute a “vote” in the PageRank system.
Why isn’t Google putting the rel=”NOFOLLOW” on these links?
As a side note, the links to Google in this blog post have the rel=”NOFOLLOW” on them because I don’t want to be passing on PageRank to that Enterprise Partners page.
Google could also just not rank the Enterprise Partners page with PageRank as they appeared to have done with their Weblogs Inc. one that do have links out. Of course, there is no page rank on the case study giving them no benefit.Why do the partners paying $10,000 seem to get links with a high PageRank?
Google IS including the Enterprise partners page in their index which leads me to believe they are counting the Pagerank on the page. See the #1 result on the YouTube.com has now been added to the this page! UPDATE:
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