Google lower your pagerank - what top bloggers are saying

[David Tan]

Google PageRank Update and you got lower rank

It's kinda old news but just want a discussion on Google de-ranking many sites out there. The above link lets has a link to many different articles and comments from top bloggers and it's interesting to note what are the new things 'not to do'.

Text link resellers like Text Link Ads beware.
Blog Network Interlinking
Try to also keep the number of links in the page to be less than 100

Seems that Google's algorithm is getting stricter/smarter and the best that we all can do is to adapt. No use complaining or venting (unless you're popping a vein in your brain) and just go with the flow. Google can do whatever they like. The message is clear and sent, so now you know.

[marketraise2007]

Google has just crawled a couple of days back for Page rank and both my website ranks has increased.Blogging does get you traffic but then a blogsite is not your website.If fresh content is added to your website (not necessarily your blogs) the search spiders anre bound to crawl them.

[Gajandra D]

However smart they design their spiders to be still leaves you to wonder. I mean is that content of your site checked for quality rather than the content being different. Since google practically rules the internet they get to make the choices and it does not matter what you have on your site but if you update it. Am I even assuming correctly in this or am I blowing it out the wrong hole?

[drasticfantastic]

Yeah. Many sites saw a drop in PageRank, but it's only temporary. People will soon figure out how it works and exploit it.

[David Tan]

Everytime they make it stricter, web publishers have to work harder. It's not about so much about changing the algorithm but more about Google creating more and more rules about what not to do.

Google will then shape the look of the internet, how websites will be designed, how content will be wrtitten, who sites will link to each other, etc.

It's their search engine. It looks like by imposing more and more limits and requirements that need not apply to their own services, they will edge out adoption of competitor's services and encourage more advertisers, businesses to utilize google's.

Soon, the only way to effectively get traffic from google is to use their services. The question is... Why don't they just impose all the limits at one shot and make this rule in effect right away?

By slowly imposing the limits, it allows time for publishers, merchants to adopt their services and begin to rely on it. Once it helps generate revenue/income consistently, leaving it would create a big hole in your revenue/income level. So you keep on using it. Then slowly, more limits are imposed and google's services becomes more effective while the competitors' services becomes less so. Google lures you in and keeps you there rather than frighten everyone to Yahoo.

[Sky.bobi]

Could you please tell me exactly what google is following to assign the page rank. since I am promoting my website past 6 months. I am not getting traffic. :

sky

[David Tan]

Well, there has been a few changes in the last few months. 6 months eh? Then your site isn't that new anymore. When the dust settles maybe we'll have a better clue on the final algorithm. You know what... as were discussing, I'm getting this gut feeling that they're alternating more than 10 different algorithms just to confuse the heck out of those who think it's only one fix algorithm and trying to figure it out. Now wouldn't that be a killer.

[servesyr]

I think your right some of my sites were on the first page of google Then the next day There on 15 pages back. I think they are alternating servers or what you said

[David Tan]

If they are alternating algorithms or changing the criterias to be at the top, then can we say that google is providing the most relevant search results? If sites keep popping up at different pages all the time in a search, it becomes more random and more of the links that I don't want to visit.

Hey, does it feel like there's more and more lousy content in search engine listings? Yahoo started with directories and it evolved into search engines like google, but with more and more junk sites floating out there trying to get top listing positions, eventually we'll be going back to semi-search-directories with more relevant but fewer results?

[GreedIsGood]

It's seems things are back to normal. My site's listed on top again. I'm sure it's because so many webmasters are pissed.

[roseliabubakar]

"Almost" back to normal for me, my website was in the top ten for my keyword last 3 week.

Now, it is ranked 60 - 70, better than last week where it was no where to be seen !!

Very Funny.. Hope all this got nothing to do with Widgetbucks. Google is penalising them. Search widgetbucks on google and they are no where to be seen like where my site used to be last week.

Anyway, I am taking widgetbucks out of my sites since they are revaluating the clicks outside usa.

[David Tan]

Like the reports, possibly Google had no intention to penalise permanently. Just want to get attention of the internet community that they 'might' penalise websites with paid text links, and a host of other things that are 'in competition' with google. Strike the fear, get people to drop certain ad channels and widgets (especially small timers and early/soon adopters) then make things normal again. The big sites are happy and may complain about the inconvenience but are otherwise ok that they're back up but Google would have achieve their goal of scaring all the newbies and small timers to stay away from utilizing google's competitors.

[roseliabubakar]

Originally Posted by David Tan

Like the reports, possibly Google had no intention to penalise permanently. Just want to get attention of the internet community that they 'might' penalise websites with paid text links, and a host of other things that are 'in competition' with google. Strike the fear, get people to drop certain ad channels and widgets (especially small timers and early/soon adopters) then make things normal again. The big sites are happy and may complain about the inconvenience but are otherwise ok that they're back up but Google would have achieve their goal of scaring all the newbies and small timers to stay away from utilizing google's competitors.

I believe you are right there David though I felt I have read something like that at Shoemoney

[Niche]

All this panic about page rank is rather amusing.

It just goes toshow how easy it is to major on minors

Think about it, does good PR automatically grant you top position on the SERPs

How many of us have time and time again seen pages with little or no page rank at position 1, 2 or 3 that are not ranked

I think we need to step back a little and focus on the bigger picture.

[David Tan]

hmm, yeah, it's not really a major, major thing but as highly competitive individuals, we're death gripping whatever little advantage we can hold on to in this big dog eat many small dogs world. Plus I think when google lower positions in the search results at the same time when they lower page rank, many people freaked out and saw that as "YEAH, page rank is SUPER important. SEee?" But everything is back to normal and page rank's importance is back to being viewed as minimal.

[Tephus]

PR doesn't really matter, unless you're doing Pay Per Post.