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Google PageRank Gripes

Started by webomatica · 10 months ago

It seems that Google finally made good on the rumblings that they were lowering PageRank on many blogs that were selling links - including some that were affiliated with TextLinkAds - and others that may have been too aggressive with ads, contests, or whatever other conspiracy theory one can coo ... Continue reading »

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  • tunequest

    1 year ago

    I noticed yesterday that apple.com/dotmac/ is PR10, while regular apple.com is PR9.

    Had to raise my eyebrow at that.
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  • papa

    1 year ago

    Yahoo which I swear used to be a 9 (raised some eyebrows there) is now a 10.

    Fanpop holds at 5 -- so you're in good company :-)
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  • Urbanist

    1 year ago

    What I can't believe is that OneMansBlog just dropped to PR5 from PR8. Not only does John (the blog's author) know Matt Cutts personally but he even (at Matt's personal request) removed the paid links he used to have on the site. I could understand drops of one point as a warning, but so many sites seem to have lost two or (in John's case) even three. That seems extreme, especially in cases where people have fixed the linking problems. :(
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  • webomatica

    1 year ago

    Yeah - the more I read about exactly who was penalized it is looking kind of excessive...
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  • Urbanist

    1 year ago

    Techipedia is down to 4 ... why? I don't think Tamar is selling links lol. And Neatorama? Are you kidding me? That site has tons of backlinks and a huge audience, a PR4 is just misleading, and all because they sold a few links. The punishment doesn't seem to fit the 'crime' in a lot of these cases ... a few small sold links and a site gets demoted to the level of a n00b blog. Bleh.
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