Google Digital Photoframes arrive in UK
Today I received Google’s digital photoframe Christmas present, this has been sent out to some Google AdSense publishers with users from the US receiving the gift a few weeks ago.
Here’s some more information about the digital photoframe with a picture, below, from Shawn Hogan. I would take my own photo but I won’t actually see it until April when I return to the UK from Australia!
[...] I can understand why Google would treat these type of reviews in the same way as a paid blog post, but it will almost certainly be very difficult to police. Google will need to ensure they only penalise websites where the sole intention of offering a free gift is in order to receive a product review backlink, otherwise how can they differentiate between this and a christmas gift? [...]
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