Blogs are indexed very fast as its content are updated frequently. To take benefit of this, paid blogging became a big hit amongst advertisers who wanted more targeted traffic and the best part was that they were likely to get better page rank and come up in search results when their links where included in blog post. Bloggers were paid well so it was going good but then Google will not like to see sites coming up in search results by buying links in blogs and getting good ranks. So Google punished bloggers by taking away their page rank that did sponsored postings extensively. But in this whole drama, I can see (and many others as well) that crap sites are given better ranks and some good sites were left without any rank. Smorty (get paid for posting site) says that Google detected Payperpost disclosure text and snatched the rank. This doesn’t seems 100% true for every blog. Anyways no matter how much google can try but paid postings will never stop as the sites like Payperpost, sponsoredreviews and reviewme etc either have their own ranking system or detect the quality of blog from alexa ranking, feeds, backlinks and technorati etc.

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