Connected Internet Drops 3 Belt Sizes to Page Rank 3

Everton | Oct 27, 2007 | View Comments


I’ve finally made it! For the last couple of days I’ve strangely been a bit disappointed that my Page Rank hadn’t been reduced. Didn’t Google care about me I thought?

It seems that Google does love me after all, and my Page Rank has just fallen from PR6 to PR3. I’m guessing that the delay was because the US sites were updated first, and now Google is turning its evil eye to Europe.

Well, at least I’ll be drowning my ’sorrows’ this weekend in good company and toasting Google’s good health. It took me 1 month to get a PR4, a few more to get a PR5 and about 18 months to get a PR6. All gone in 24 hours….cheers Google!!!

If anyone is wondering what I intend to do now….well, nothing. I don’t see the point of closing the stable door after the horse has bolted. I’m also very stubborn and I refuse to be dictated to, so I’m just going to get on with it and remember that I used to be happy blogging just for fun with only my mum reading my site!


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About the Author: Everton is based in London and has worked in the internet and mobile space for over ten years now, and before that worked in corporate strategy and consulting. He has a degree in Economics from Cambridge University.He also writes for Windows 7 News, Windows 8 News and One Tip A Day.

  • @shashank

    can't see what would change. I still have dofollow links. I think the whole point of this upgrade was to stop everyone's fixation on PR - I don't want to make that mistake again. I had one of the best weekends traffic wise and that's what I need to focus on
  • Everton why don't you just file a reconsideration request thru google webmasters tools who knows..if they might reinstate your PR like Problogger gets his PR6 back
  • things are quite wired. Lets see we hear some announcement from Google in the days to come or not.
  • My friend who took linkexchangeexperts.com's 1000 one way backlinks service has dropped to PR 0.

    Paid links really isn't the way to go.
  • well, it's a pity to see this.
    my site took 1 month to pr2 at april. then the second pr update last day, it's pr5, i am really surprise as so many larger sites seeing the pr dropping.
  • Write for people, not for search engines.

    People don't read your blog because it was a PR6, they read it because of your opinion on things. That is essentially what all blogs are, if we wanted popular we would read the new york times. Keep on blogging!
  • Thanks for the support everyone. So far my SERPS look the same, so I think Google are only reducing Page Ranks to penalise sites who have been using it to sell advertising and to pass it on, rather than adjusting whatever system they really use to actually rank results.

    @Joseph
    I doubt Everton’s traffic will suffer from the PR knockdown. His traffic is largely viral in my opinion- look at the whopper feedburner stats!

    Actually it's not! About 70% of my traffic comes from Google. I get over 200K unique vistors each month, so at least 1m+ plus over the last 12 months. Now if a decent amount of those ppl had subscribed I'd be way higher than 2k subs!!! It's on of the reasons I've made the subscribe section a hotspot on the new theme

    @martin

    Agree - the numbers are all over the place. I'm showing a 5 in some data centres now. there's def more to come next week-hurrah!

    @joseph

    I don't see what value deindexing text link ads has, as all it's done is move all the other results up one place! Just seems petty. What will they do next? Move results for Text Link Ads out of the SafeSearch cluster, and put them with the porn and filth where they belong? lol
  • The site I use to post here dropped from a PR4 to a PR1 on my home page. Most subpages are a PR2, and my portfolio is a PR3 so I am baffled. I have no clue whats going on, my SERPs are still the same. I dont buy or sell links. Its a site for my web design company so I have no clue whats going on. Most of my backlinks are from directories, natural, or from blogging on related topics. I havent seen anyone with such a weird result from this update than my site. Anyone care to guess?

    http://www.sofna.com/

    BTW - we arent going anywhere Everton! -=D
  • Problogger went back up to PR6 and it looks like JohnChow is only going to drop to PR5. You know how much Johnchow promotes/uses TLA, so I wouldn't be that worried about it. According to Alexa, his traffic may have spiked a little bit even.
  • Well it looks like that finally, Google trained its main guns on text link ads. Their site is registering PR 0 or PR N/A at http://www.digpagerank.com.

    Googling 'textlinkads.com' or 'text-link-ads.com' also yields no results on the search engine.

    This is tantamount to being deindexed. Guys-> strip TLA from your sites now!
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