Effect of too many sponsored links/posts

Google penalizes blogs that have too many sponsored posts or links. I have heard and read from many bloggers that they have lost their PR(some from PR 3 to PR 0). This ofcourse affects your site’s SERP(Search engine results page). Bloggers who have registered for services like Paid to Write need to maintain a ratio of 5:1 ie they need to have five non-sponsored posts for every paid post/review that they write on their blog. Bloggers who essentially create blogs for just posting sponsored links or PTC ads will find it almost imposible to achieve a high PR. But as far as I know it doesn’t affect Alexa ranking as they follow a different policy.

Effective way of getting your blog indexed

There is a very effective and a simple way of getting each post in your blog indexed. You must remember that search engines have an appetite for HTML links. The more links your blog has the better the chances of it getting indexed. As you may know, not all posts receive comments and not all posts become popular in a blog. You can comment on other blogs using the URL of some of your posts if you want internal links/backlinks to your inner pages of your blog. I had mentioned in my earlier post that posting comments on other blogs with the Name/URL option gives your blog an internal link. Hence, you must encourage people to comment on your blog with their Name/URL option instead of their Google account. I know its out of our control and only people who are aware of this fact may use the Name/URL option.
This is the reason why commenting with URLs is so important to indexing. Posts that have received a few comments with the Name/URL have a much better chance of getting indexed and to appear on the first page of a google search than posts that receive comments with no URL. I am stating this based on my personal experience.