Connected Internet Drops 3 Belt Sizes to Page Rank 3
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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Comment by Everton on 29 October 2007:
@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
Comment by Shashank on 29 October 2007:
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
Comment by mv3gp on 29 October 2007:
things are quite wired. Lets see we hear some announcement from Google in the days to come or not.
Comment by Marcus the Lover on 28 October 2007:
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.
Comment by horisly on 28 October 2007:
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.
Comment by Collin LaHay on 28 October 2007:
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!
Comment by Everton on 27 October 2007:
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
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