DISQUS

Mike Lopez · 2 years ago

I also suffered a PR drop more than 2 months ago and traced (possibly) the cause to incoming links in the form of spam URLs resulting to 404s on my site. In a matter of days, Google reported 3000+ 404 errors on my site so I decided to take action on it. Now my PR is back up to PR4 - still one notch less from the original PR5. Full details of what I did can be found at http://seo.mikelopez.info/2007/10/27/pr-update-...

SunlightFlavour · 2 years ago

Hi!
I don't know what happened but my blog PR went from 0 to 2?

Tiffany Lighting · 2 years ago

I have heard that google is discounting the weight of directory links. That is the most popular form of paid link building. I would have to say that most of the time people are buying page rank on the directories and I know it is a good business for some but it does help to level the playing field to devalue these links.

I guess you can tell I don't buy links.

Laura Monroe · 2 years ago

Hi Josh,

Last week I noticed my ActiveRain blog drop from PG 4 to 3, however my website which was only a PG2 went to a PG3...go figure. Perhaps you are onto something with all the backlinks in blogs..? Keep us posted...I'm counting on you;) L~

Steeltowndubber · 2 years ago

My blog went from PR0 to PR3.

Alberghi · 2 years ago

With las update google has really slaps many bloggers. I'm also affected.

Forrest · 2 years ago

My blog - the one I'm signing this with - went from 0 to 3. The site on the main domain went up: the home page and lots of internal ones. I'm writing this because you said:

I’ve been reading up on this for 2 days now and have yet to hear anything good about this situation. I have heard rumblings from people that they have seen PR upgrades, but haven’t found any proof. I’d love to hear from anyone who has seen an increase. Maybe we can learn from exploring these sites what has really happened.

djahna · 2 years ago

Penalized for selling links?,, But how do they identify sites that do sell links?

m07 · 2 years ago

i have heard many sites/blogs being penalised for selling links is it true.if so then our only support is directories.

vip crew · 2 years ago

hi, very nice blog, I invite to my side. I greet

Chris · 2 years ago

Great post, and nice links too (my first time here). Any indication how this latest smack down has affected "navigational queries"?

Hipotecas y Finanzas · 1 year ago

All those guys recover their pagerank, they just tweak the paid links it a redirect 302 and everything was ok again.

Regards

m07 · 1 year ago

google is trying to be as much powerful as it can to destroy its competitors.

Mike · 1 year ago

Strange but true, 1 of my domains went from 3 to 0 PR even it has a lot of visitors.. :(

decorative wall crosses · 1 year ago

One of my niche fishing blogs with only 3 backlinks went from a 0 to a 3. I was totally shocked.

Matt on holiday · 1 year ago

I got so many paid links for my site. If sites/blogs being penalised for selling links, my site should be suffer by PR drop. But nothing happened in PR for past 3 months in my site.

Forrest · 1 year ago

@Matt: That makes perfect sense; Google only tends to update the toolbar page rank every three or four months.

@Walls: The quality of each links is far more important than the total number of them.

@Mike: Page rank, while not very useful, is a measure of links, not visitors.

@m07: I don't see anything anti-competitive going on. Google encourages people to give $300 a site to Yahoo, one of Google's oldest competitors.

Texan Democrat · 1 year ago

IDK what I think...
My pagerank has gone up because I never sold links...

peter's credit report · 1 year ago

ya, I agree with matt points me too got so many paid back links for my sites but it didn't affect my sites PR, I will careful about your points because i spend more money for my sites.

Web Hosting Reviews · 1 year ago

Well people flip out whenever they hear about a PageRank change one way or another, people link to warez sites and wonder why they dropped from a PR3 to a PR0, etc. It is just visual pagerank people, not the thing that they are actually ranking our sites based on ;)