Comments on: Your PageRank Just Dropped!

By: Crenk

Crenk — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 13:48:05 +0000

My site has been penalised for a while now, but have never worked out why until all the stories have come out. I dont sell text links and Im not using link farms, so i have request a review from Google. We will see if this helps

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Link Frenzy: Google Related Articles - Untwisted Vortex — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 17:58:23 +0000

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By: Steven

Steven — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 01:58:59 +0000

Normally I use FF to access this site at home but I right now I am out using someone else’s computer and they still have IE6. Under IE6, your whole site looks funky and broken. I know you announced that you are working on a new theme but thought I’d just give you a heads up on this in case no one else brought it up.

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 22:27:07 +0000

None of my blogs have shown any change yet but the rumour on the jungle drums is that this is the beginning. After so many false starts can it really be PR export time?

By: James

James — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 21:48:17 +0000

The interesting problem about Pagerank and advertising is that you may need pagerank to get better advertising. If you do not have a good enough pagerank, you may be stuck with AdSense. Maybe it works good for Google to keep Pagerank low?

By: Rob Schultz

Rob Schultz — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 21:21:21 +0000

I guess I’m one of the people in limbo who does not know whether or not the PR change has hit their site…I’m at a PR 4 and have been for quite some time. I’ve been interested in monetizing my blog for quite some time now and was really hoping for a PR increase this time around.

I predict that Google will do away with their PR system in the near future or alter it drastically. In the modern form of the web it’s become almost useless.

By: Slevi

Slevi — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 19:43:50 +0000

You just hit the nail partially on the head there though Caroline, many advertisers use PR as an indication for whether or not to buy ads with you in the first place placing you in a vicious circle:
They look at your pr, buy ad place –> you place ad, your pr drops –> ad removed, other advertiser comes which is happy with the lower pr –> you place ad, pr drops

Eventually if you’d continue and google would keep on penalizing people for paid links you’d just end up with a lot of those sites monetizing their site with low pageranks. You’ll probably find more advertisers to start looking at traffic or other factors then, but still it’s not really a good change.

PR matters for more than just selling links or ads though, there are people which use it as a reference for whether or not to link to you. So if your PR drops you might be missing out on potential incoming links thanks to that.

By: Caroline Middlebrook

Caroline Middlebrook — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 18:58:48 +0000

I stayed at unranked It can only go up from there. Honestly I don’t think it matters that much. Unless you’re using PR to sell links or ads or something, it’s just a meaningless number.

By: Steven Bradley

Steven Bradley — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 18:44:20 +0000

I haven’t noticed any changes on my site. Either there won’t be any or the update hasn’t hit me yet. I would imagine the drops are due to paid links as some site will no longer be passing PR anymore.

By: thatedeguy

thatedeguy — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 16:12:08 +0000

I dropped from a pr5 to a pr4. Not the biggest deal in the world, but before the paid links penalties, I was expecting a pr6.