Page Rank is now Pointless
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Well aparently many of the blogs that sell text link ads, and blog for money, have been reduced, by google, to a PR0. My Tip Tail blog just went from a PR03 to a PR00. This blog was at a 02 the last few days, but today, big fat zero.
My only blog that has PR is crabbie tail, and it has no ads on it. I was going to put some up but I’m actually glad I didn’t so I can see the effects for myself.
What is my opinion of PR now? It’s pointless. It’s meaningless. If google is going to penalize blogs and other sites for selling links, then the content of the sites is no longer a measure for a good site. Nor is the popularity based on link backs, or hits to the site… the only determining factor is selling text link ads?
Then there are some really good blogs out there that are getting slammed into PR0. Which effectively tells me not to put any merit whatsoever in google’s PR.
John Chow has a good post about the latest google PR, and there is a lot of discussion going on at the PPP forums. I don’t do PPP much any more, but I do other pay to blog companies and I will continue to do so no matter what google says about them.
In fact, google is being the god power, it seems, in that they will rank you if you display their AdSense, but not if you display other advertising via ad links. So in other words if you want PR, you need to bow down to the all holy google. Ugh. As Robert Clough quoted Jennifer saying on his blog:
oh mighty Google overlords, take my ads, take my firstborn, take anything you wish. By the way, give me a minute to bend over and here’s some lube to make it easier on you.
So what to do? If you own Google stock, sell! Google is punishing the average blogger and making itself more important. If you use Google search, stop. I know I have. Or best yet, ignore Google entirely. I am going to. I am going to hope the companies I work for will no longer use Google as a measure of a blog’s worth. The measure is no longer valid.
I wrote a post on this topic last night, I think we need to let Google do its things for a while and we should collaborate together. I have a few proposal listed in my post, interested?
I wrote a post on this topic last night, I think we need to let Google do its things for a while and we should collaborate together. I have a few proposal listed in my post, interested?
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Obviously you miss the point. If google was to allow paid links to be recognized then any crap site with deep pockets could go out and buy a bunch of links then out rank a site with good content. Links should indicate a site is good, not that they have a big advertising budget. Google did the right thing.
So I will thank google for not honoring FALSE links.
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Obviously you miss the point. If google was to allow paid links to be recognized then any crap site with deep pockets could go out and buy a bunch of links then out rank a site with good content. Links should indicate a site is good, not that they have a big advertising budget. Google did the right thing. So I will thank google for not honoring FALSE links. <em>David's last blog post..<a href='http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FearAndAnxietySymp...rel="nofollow">Ideas And Tips For Anxiety Problems</a></em>
The interesting thing that has been going on with the page rank issue – is that page rank dropped on all of our sites – including the ones that had nothing to do with link sales… The only ones that went up were the sites that were launched between april 2007 and now.
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The interesting thing that has been going on with the page rank issue – is that page rank dropped on all of our sites – including the ones that had nothing to do with link sales… The only ones that went up were the sites that were launched between april 2007 and now. <em>Matt Ellsworth's last blog post..<a href='http://www.articlesnatch.com/blog/2007/12/12/ross...rel="nofollow">I?m attending the Ross Goldberg?s Masters Internet Marketing Seminar Are You?</a></em>
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PageRank has become an obsession with webmasters and developers. Having a good site does not equate to a higher number in some cases. The frustration of being an actual web site developer is that someone that just writes words and posts it on wordpress can get a higher pagerank than someone that just spent the better part of a year developing a site from scratch using the latest development tools and years of college education. Really quite sad yet the reality of the world. Words translate to dollars.
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