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Re: Google Brings the Smack Down with PR Changes

Web Hosting Reviews — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 22:07:01 -0000

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 ;)

Re: Google Brings the Smack Down with PR Changes

peter's credit report — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 17:51:44 -0000

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.

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Texan Democrat — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 02:04:58 -0000

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

Re: Google Brings the Smack Down with PR Changes

Forrest — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 18:34:32 -0000

@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.

Re: Google Brings the Smack Down with PR Changes

Matt on holiday — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 14:38:16 -0000

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.

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decorative wall crosses — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 18:12:35 -0000

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

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Mike — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 14:38:56 -0000

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

Re: Google Brings the Smack Down with PR Changes

m07 — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 06:43:27 -0000

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

Re: Google Brings the Smack Down with PR Changes

Hipotecas y Finanzas — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 16:25:33 -0000

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

Regards

Re: Google Brings the Smack Down with PR Changes

Chris — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 21:15:20 -0000

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

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vip crew — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 10:50:26 -0000

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Re: Google Brings the Smack Down with PR Changes

m07 — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 16:10:01 -0000

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

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djahna — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 09:25:21 -0000

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

Re: Google Brings the Smack Down with PR Changes

Forrest — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 02:40:23 -0000

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:

Iâ€™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 havenâ€™t found any proof. Iâ€™d love to hear from anyone who has seen an increase. Maybe we can learn from exploring these sites what has really happened.

Re: Google Brings the Smack Down with PR Changes

Alberghi — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 09:36:16 -0000

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

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Steeltowndubber — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 22:36:14 -0000

My blog went from PR0 to PR3.

Re: Google Brings the Smack Down with PR Changes

Laura Monroe — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 10:44:58 -0000

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~

Re: Google Brings the Smack Down with PR Changes

Tiffany Lighting — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 15:49:05 -0000

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.

Re: Google Brings the Smack Down with PR Changes

SunlightFlavour — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 09:12:34 -0000

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

Re: Google Brings the Smack Down with PR Changes

Mike Lopez — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 11:50:14 -0000

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/2...