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 Joseph Plazo on 27 October 2007:
You’re lucky. My TLA from textlinkads was netting me monster $3 a month- so big that my entire city held a feastday for it.
Kline, aren’t you just wondering why textlinkads.com still hovers at Pagerank 7???? The mother survives but the chicks get their necks chopped off
Comment by Kline on 27 October 2007:
yea… my site only had one TLA ad.. that was getting me like a whoping… $7 per month.. took it down immediately.. not that i expect traffic to suffer.. but.. damn.. somoene needs to put google in their place. 1000 relevent backlinks with no SEO shennigans and penalization from one link? screw them.. thats horrible.
Comment by Joseph Plazo on 27 October 2007:
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!
Comment by Joseph Plazo on 27 October 2007:
Im very surprised that google restored one of my site ranking from PR4 to PR5… this despite having one tiny little TLA on the right side of my front page.
Maybe its coz google guffawed at my littleness having only one little advertiser on that TLA?
Nonetheless- I’m taking down TLA…. google channels too much of my traffic.
Sigh. I hate yielding.
Comment by Kline on 27 October 2007:
wow.. fuckers at google lowered mine too.. i dont even use tla for much.. one site.. one page
Comment by Harishankar on 27 October 2007:
Everton, I am a recent reader of you blog. I never could keep myself away from reading your blogs daily. Though, I am crazy busy at work being a CEO of a company, I’m still crazy reading your blog daily. I didnt come to your blog through Google though and not many who are your regular readers would have. But still, I dont worry reading your blog for a reason that you lost you PR… Come on… We are still here and not bothering about PR.
Its always your blog that brings me here, and hope the same from everyone…
Comment by Zakman on 27 October 2007:
Hmm Forest, Google getting too big for their boots? I should agree, cause I’ve already planned my next five posts:
1. Why they’re gonna stamp my Google PR on my passport
2. Why I keep a Google talisman in my glove box
3. How Google discovered which shampoo I use–and how my PR depends on it
4. Why the barber asked my Google PR before giving me a haircut
5. Will the next generation of cars run on Google?
Comment by Forest Parks on 27 October 2007:
That’s the spirit.
Readers really could not give a damn about pagerank and that is where the true power of a blog comes from.
Google are getting too big for their boots, maybe!!
Comment by ezams on 27 October 2007:
I was thinking they use blogs as a punching bag to release their anger and shame after defeated by Microsoft to get facebook dot com. Looks like they’re really frust…lol.
Comment by Mike on 27 October 2007:
Everton - it’ll be you, your mum and me because I’m not gonna let them dictate to me either. I thought for a while about taking TLA down on all my sites but, you know what? I can’t be bothered.
In the last 3 months, StumbleUpon has driven more traffic to my site than Google (29.1% - 27.7%). The visitors have stayed longer and more of them have subscribed so if, for whatever reason, Big G kick me from the index then I’m not going to cry myself to sleep over it.
They’ve chosen a bad time to do what they’re doing. Social bookmarking sites like StumbleUpon are getting more popular and people are relying less on search engines than ever before.
They’ve bitten the hand that fed them for the last 10 years and we won’t forget.