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Re: Google PageRank Gripes

Urbanist — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 19:47:49 -0000

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.

Re: Google PageRank Gripes

webomatica — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 10:24:35 -0000

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

Re: Google PageRank Gripes

Urbanist — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 01:21:05 -0000

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. :(

Re: Google PageRank Gripes

papa — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 16:52:51 -0000

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 :-)

Re: Google PageRank Gripes

tunequest — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 11:47:26 -0000

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

Had to raise my eyebrow at that.