Google slap
By Sasha on Oct 27, 2007 in Computers and gadgets
I think a lot of you have noticed a significant drop in your Google page ranks in the past few days. Two of my blogs have received a drop: Sasha@Akoni dropped to a PR2 from a PR4 while my Bookmarks dropped from a PR3 to a PR2.
When I noticed this, I thought I did some monumental blunder somewhere. I tried to recall whatever I did to my site and came up with nothing. So I assumed that it was all about traffic. The blogs were not getting enough of it.
But I was wrong! When I checked out the traffic for both sites, both were pretty good.
And then a friend told me yesterday about the news on Google penalizing paid links. Apparently, Google is on a trackdown on blogs getting paid to post links of advertisers. A lot of people who are into get paid to blog programs got a significant drop in their page ranking and it pissed a lot of them. I checked some bloggers linked to me and yes, their page ranks dropped as well. Most drops are two ranks like my akoni site.
I, myself, am not happy about this. A friend told me that Google is just making sure people get quality content when they go searching for something. I say Google is pissed because instead of advertising through their Adsense, advertisers now flock to bloggers to do their advertising for them!
I was just wondering why they think they are internet gods that we should all follow. Can someone explain this to me?
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I am an accountant, a CPA. I'd been working for 10 years as a corporate rat when I decided to quit. I am now working at home as a consultant and full time blogger.
maiylah | Oct 27, 2007 | Reply
talaga! wala naman tayong makukuha dun sa Adsense nila, diba?
haayyy…
Eli | Oct 28, 2007 | Reply
In my case kapitabahay, I got an extra 1 point for inmylife blog, then yung sysadmin blog ko from 0 to 2..
I wrote several post re: reasons why Google is penalizing blogs with sponsored post and selling text links..
but there are blogs that do not sell links na bumaba din PR eh.. weird talaga sila..
Rich | Nov 2, 2007 | Reply
It’s not just PR – Google dropped many of my pages from their index and my hits are way down due to my site wide classified ads… this is like a library penalizing magazines and newspapers for containing ads…
Please visit me at: http://www.kweevak.com so I can start getting some hits again!