Yesterday, I was shocked to see and discovered that my wife’s 2 sites, both with PR3, had reduced to zero. Yes, that’s nil, null, nada, ‘O’, PR0. I thought that it was some kind of a glitch in Big G’s PR but when I searched and checked it with PR tools online, the sites indeed have both PR0. Wow. Not good. In my opinion, as a blogger who make money online with still small traffic to the site, I think having pagerank is important because almost all Get Paid To (GPT) sites seem to rely on Google’s PR. While an established blog site with large traffic and with many readers, PR is really not that important to them because they can earn enough money without relying on GPT sites.
There are also many angry and pissed bloggers, who had their PR3s, PR4s, and PR5s reduced to ZERO by Google.
Here are some must read posts for bloggers who wants to play hide and seek game with Google:
Google Goes after the Everyday Blogger
I find it laughable that high profile bloggers like TechCrunch aren’t being penalized in the same way. Perhaps it’s the fact that they use AdSense. Perhaps it’s the fact that they are silicon valley insiders and are invited to special Google events. Either way I don’t see the difference between a sponsored post in our system or this sponsored post. Both are paid for, neither use no-follow.
Selling Links in a Google Controlled Internet
Paid links are not going away no matter how hard Google tries. While Google has been able to get many sites to surrender, that had the effect of increasing prices because of less supply. I’ve talked to quite a few sites and they tell me that since the Google crack down, their link sales have been better than ever. As long as they stay under Google’s radar, they’ll be able to enjoy the income the links provide plus get Google traffic as well.
Worried about Google PR drop? Don’t be!
Those of us who have chosen to monetize our blogs need a way to show that our blogs have value. PR was the most reliable measure in the past. So what are we going to do now? Find another way. A way that shows the actual value of our blogs so that advertisers can know whether or not we offer them the right vehicle for promoting their product. The geniuses at IZEA…..
ZeroRank - More PageRank Carnage (Round 5)
Google is making huge mistakes with these updates. I know many people receiving penalties sell links, and I am not trying to defend them. When you get someone like regular reader Rob, a real expert in SEO, who based on the links he receives should be a comfortable PR4, or possibly a PR5, currently a PR0, because he wrote one paid review using nofollow on the links.
Is Google Treating All Bloggers Equally… Oh, really?
It will be very interesting to see what Google does or doesn’t do… And by the way, you can download the html from the page yourself before it is changed. While I’m not so worried about TechCrunch passing PR, I am wondering: “Does Google treat all bloggers equally? Or just some? Over to you Matt.”
So much about those linkies. I am not that angry of what’s happened. It’s just that Google should be transparent as they are the Goliath in the internet. They should not be slapping PR’s here and there.
How about you? Has your blog been affected too? Do you think PR is important or not?
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Mahalo for the link. It’s always flattering to find that someone else has found value in my thoughts!
Angry? Yeah, I’m angry. If Big G wants to change how they compute PR that’s their business. Is they want to penalize paid links, so be it. My anger is at their arbitrary application of the penalties, targeting not all sponsored links but only the ones they don’t like. A paid link is a paid link is a paid link.
Worried? No. Our advertisers are not stupid people. Their links will still appear on other search engines, the search engines that more and more people are now using thanks to Big G’s duplicity. G has thrown the baby out with the bath water. Wonder how long it will take them to realize that?