PayPerGhost
PayPerPost, everyone’s favorite unethical blog monetization strategy, was dealt another blow recently as Google took it upon themselves to reset all PayPerPost bloggers’ page rank to zero. That’s right, all that credibility you’ve been trying to build up with your paid reviews of products will now be devalued to nothing in the channel where between 75-85% of all Internet users turn first when looking for information. Oopsie!
I love that Google is tuned in to this but I think this is just the first step in the elimination of PayPerPosts, link farms and other useless online mousetraps. It will be interesting to see how disingenuous marketers are weeded out by the consumers that power these algorithms before being ultimately delegated to oblivion by pure user engines, like Mahalo. While I suppose there is a chance of spam penetrating user generated directories like Mahalo, it will probably be less prevalent than Wikipedia, which is hardly riddled with spam.
While the argument that human nature is responsible for much that is wrong with the world has become commonplace, humans still seem to be the best bullshit detectors we’ve got. Long live the humans and the engines they power!
