Oct 28 2007
PR Demote - Reasons Confirmed
Read Problogger’s post yesterday on The Google Page Rank Pendulum Swing…. Again. It is confirmed that the last PR update (or ‘downdate’, as teased by some bloggers), was based on penalizing link selling activities.
Quoting Problogger here:
This latest furore has all been about the selling of links and is a warning shot to bloggers and webmasters who engage in the practice. Of course not everyone who sells links has been hit (there’s no way Google will get everyone) but it’s a sign of what Google are continuing to crack down on.
Now, it is our choice whether to:
I guess the decision will really depend on whether one site’s incoming traffic has been affected by the PR so far. Lower PR is likely to have a site being listed much behind many other sites in Google’s search result, hence less likely to drive new visitors based on content.
We’ll wait and see how. I’m not keen to stop selling link yet, and will let TextLink rest here for a while until further decision is made. However, I do worry that the advertisers will stop buying links from TextLink or blogs like ours as a result of this. Anyway, again, we shall wait and see first…
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