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Google hitting back.

Major bloggers have been hit today by Google dropping their pageranks. JohnChow was hit before, dropping from pr6 to pr 5, and is now on the way to pr4. At first people assumed this was Google hitting back for people buying or selling paid links, but these recent updates have a lot of us confused. Some other blogs, such as problogger.net haven’t been doing this, yet their rank dropped from 6 to 4 today. Even a blogging friend of mine, Smemon seems to be dropping from pr3 down to pr2. This is very disappointing for me to see his PR drop, I don’t understand why it happened. Google seem to be flaunting their power and revising their rules or algorithms to hit back at those who have taken advantage of them.

We still don’t know if we’re getting a full pr update, since they only seem to be dropping pr’s. I wont know for sure until I hear other people confirm it, as this blog is a PR 0. I should be getting at least a pr1, but with the developments lately, who knows?

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Posted on 24 October '07 by Mark, under Business.

One Comment to “Google hitting back.”

#1 Posted by smemon (24.10.07 at 17:33 )

it’s disappointing, lets face it as it de-values your blog in advertisers eyes, so it means less money.

that shouldn’t be the way it is, but until ad networks (textlinkads, reviewme etc..) stop using pagerank as a ratings check to get accepted, then that’s the way it will stay.

google are playing hardball with ad networks and the only way ad networks will win is if they drop PR altogether from their systems and put more emphasis on RSS subscribers/independant rating systems etc…

PayPerPost were prepared for this imo and seen it coming. They’re gonna make some pretty huge changes next month, with regards how they rank sites and will rely less on an pagerank/alexa rank etc..

but text-link-ads are flucked as are reviewme, unless they adapt quickly.

based on the theory paid links = bad, no ads = good, it will be interesting to see how this blog fairs as it should be on course for a pr2/3 imo. (basing that on previous updates of course)