“Pointers For Google Japan Paid-Post Story” By Matt Cutts

Recently we reported that Google has penalized Google Japan for paid reviews.

Matt Cutts was the one who twittered that Google.co.jp PageRank is now ~5 instead of ~9. Here is what he has to say in his latest post:

“In addition, the PageRank change also has ripple effects for google.co.jp where we lose trust in the links for that domain. The team from google.co.jp will also need to submit a reconsideration request just like anyone else would.

One of the other messages I’m hearing is that Google needs to keep talking about these issues, especially to explain why we think paid posts that affect search engines are bad for the ecology of the web.”

Here is the video for you

“But in the mean time, I wanted to provide the pointers to the Japanese posts and to the video about this.” he further added.

Pointers:

• Google Japan issue
• Google’s Japanese webmaster blog
• Google’s main Japanese blog

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