Recently google unlisted lots of blogs which were showing paid posts from "PPP". Google also dropped the PageRank of such blogs to 0. PageRank is used by google search engine to calculate the authority of a blog or website. If a blog is linked in lots of other websites, it gets high PR indicating google that its an authoritive blog and should be given top listings in search results.
When someone is linking to a paid link, or posting about a product by charging the product owner he kills the whole PageRank concept. As in theri case they are helping the paid blogs to have high PR by charging them.
If you think that your intentions were right, and you were showing paid-links on your blog just for driving traffic to the other website, you can get your old PageRank back very easily.
Google isagainst the the sharing of PR and not against paid post.
You have to do only two things if you have Paid links on your blog:
First, label all your paid posts as "Sponsored reviews" or disclose it on every post, not just a site wide disclosure policy, Second, put the "nofollow" tag on the sponsored links in your post which should look like this: Sponsor's anchor text.
Above two steps will make sure google BOT is not mislead.
Next, log in or join Google's Webmaster Tools. On the right side of your dashboard you will see a request reconsideration link. Press that, submit your site, and explain that you have already made changes on your site so that it conforms with Google's Quality Guidelines, a small request or apology will work too. Wait for few days and you will see that your PR is back to normal and your posts are relisted in Google search
List your Website videos in Google video search using new Video Sitemap
Posted by Mandeep Singh Bhangu Labels: SEOthe Google Video team joined the Sitemaps folks to introduce Video Sitemaps—an extension of the Sitemap Protocol that helps make your videos more searchable via Google Video Search. By submitting this video-specific Sitemap in addition to your standard Sitemap, you can specify all the video files on your site, along with relevant metadata. Here's an example:
<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9"
xmlns:video=" http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap-video/1.0">
<url>
<loc>http://www.example.com/videos/some_video_landing_page.html </loc>
<video:video>
<video:content_loc>http://www.example.com/video123.flv</video:content_loc>
<video:player_loc allow_embed="yes"> http://www.example.com/videoplayer.swf?video=123</video:player_loc>
<video:title>My funny video</video:title>
<video:thumbnail_loc> http://www.example.com/thumbs/123.jpg</video:thumbnail_loc>
</video:video>
</url>
<url>
<loc> http://www.example.com/videos/some_other_video_landing_page.html</loc>
<video:video>
<video:content_loc>http://www.example.com/videos/video1.mpg </video:content_loc>
<video:description>A really awesome video</video:description>
</video:video>
</url>
</urlset>
