Yes, it might seem a little weird, but yes, Google some how messed with the PR of sites and looks like most of them are seeing their PageRank dropped instead of going up.
It’s a wicked thing. I mean my previous blog of danielctw.blogspot.com dropped from PR3 to PR2.
Here are other notable sites
chanlilian.net dropped to PR3
ahpek.com dropped to PR2
I was like shocked to see their sites dropped in PR. Well, don’t know whether it was a bug or some kind of error in the Google network themselves. But just hope that it was just a feisty bug happening. Well, if there are any news on the new PR update, I’ll have it up in a jiffy.
News flash
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For some after looking through a few sites, some has suggested that Google has indeed started a war amongst site that sells Paid Links. Well, those who have done PPP, Smorty, etc might be facing this ever excruciating problem.
One thing though, aside from those sites having their PR dropping, it doesn’t seem likely for other sites which doesn’t do paid post also having their Page Rank dropped before their eyes.
Looks like it’s still in the hot soup as to whether this new Page Rank algorithm is something still in testing period. Many have voiced their concerns over this issue with me on MSN Messenger. Yes, it really seems like a big hoo-haa coming just from Google itself.
With the speculation going on about PR was dropped due to paid post for selling out paid links, maybe it’s time that all blogs will have to like kill the desire to do paid posting. Google has indeed gives us too much thing to think.
Here’s some discussion in a forum and a site regarding this Page Rank update for October.
Tool Bar PR dropped by factor of 1
SearchEngineLand.com
So let’s hope it was a flaw in the google update system and pray that it’ll end up well as the Google Prediction software we’re all using!
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Now, when we talk about paid posts, I think it’s real hard for Google to sniff out which are paid and which are not. 🙂
PPP is more obvious because they sometimes require their posties to add a tracking image script onto the page. Other than that, I don’t think anyone can differentiate paid contents and non-paid ones. Even Google.
Pro-bloggers and Dosh are not doing paid posts. 🙂
Helen, I believe so.
Considering that usually PPP is the most targetted ones as with the tracking image system.
I wonder Pro-bloggers and Dosh might be hit with due to the text-link ads. John Chow even hit it back at the PR update thingy.
Hey, at least yours still PR2 right… mine dropped from PR2 to N/A ok… Wanna cry 🙁
It’s really so not good. A lot of people has been affected
Any news on directory site drops?
It seems lotsa stuff happened!! Google is waging war upon paid posts
My site went from 3 to 4. I’m happy with this update 🙂
Well, as long as there was no link selling and lotsa proper posts, I wonder why not
When all the flux settled I was up all around. I always thought the buying and selling of links is corrupt. I guess Google thinks so too!
In a way you’re right, but then that’s one way to make some cash
Yes!…Its all informations 100 % right and really very very usefully for us… Now next Google update 30 April 2008……..
Well, speculation in the blogosphere today has it that Google has decided to punish popular sites that accept paid links to lesser sites. As Valleywag puts it, “Google’s bean counter, naturally, would prefer that you pay Google for sponsored links instead.”
I’m working on getting comment from Google, but so far no luck. I’ll update this post if I do get some comment.
Anyway, part of the buzz about this move is that some of the sites that are taking PageRank hits are the very sites (Search Engine Journal, Copyblogger, Search Engine Guide and the Blog Herald, among them) that cover search engine optimization issues, and some suspect that perhaps the search giant is punishing them for being critics.
Is that possible? Well, who knows?
But as Beard points out, not all the sites that saw PageRank losses engage in the practice of selling paid links. Instead, many of them are part of blog networks that have plenty of internal links between sites. For example, Engadget, which is part of the Weblogs Inc. network.
The guidelines that these sites may have abused? “Don’t participate in link schemes designed to increase your site’s ranking or PageRank. In particular, avoid links to Web spammers or “bad neighborhoods” on the Web, as your own ranking may be affected adversely by those links.”
The real question is, what has changed? It’s hard to imagine that all these sites suddenly changed their practices overnight. So for all these sites’ PageRank rankings to have changed at once does indicate somebody over at Google is playing with slide rules or something.
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Matt always gives great examples of how some webmasters try to game Google.
Bottom line: You’ll get caught sooner or later- and most likely sooner – so why take the low road.
Google’s stated time and agian that they value natural links to “remarkable” content, i.e. content that’s good enough for people – not websites – to link to it with no other purpose than pointing out good stuff to their site visitors.
Hence, the increased value of on-topic links from authority blogs, social bookmarking sites (when not abused), legitimate news services (not the Stanford Daily obviously), and real people doing real things.
The Google algorithm is only going to get better, so focus on improving the quality of your content and stop trying to buy your way to popularity….
Can websites gain their page rank after few months after the Google update, how to gain one way links?