Not that I really care very much about the green pixels, but there's a Toolbar PageRank update going on right now. You might care. You might make money off the green bar. So go ahead and check!
There's one thing I know: Performancing was penalized from a PR 7 down to a PR 4. Despite numerous requests for clarification, and numerous "I'm your slave" reinclusion requests, Google has neither responded in word or deed.
So what's the lesson?
Google is failing to reward the sites, even relatively big sites, that genuinely try to play by the rules. By neglecting our attempts to conform, I think that Google is unintentionally sending a message like this:
We don't really care. Go back to your old ways of taking sponsored posts, and doing text-link-ads. You'll make more money that way, and since you're already penalized, why not make money in the process.
Really, we want to do things by the book. We want to be on Google's good side. But psychologically, it's hard to justify a large cut in revenue when Google fails to reward you properly for doing things properly.
Ouch!
I really hear you on that - that's one of the biggest complaints I have regarding "doing things by the book." Seems like when big huge PR sweeps occur, white-hat sites will also take the hit with no recourse available.
Hope you can get it resolved soon!
Best wishes,
Barbara
Google Page Rank
I can't complain my Page Rank went up, even though it is only a 4 it is better than nothing I suppose.
gah
Still not change for me, stuck at 0. Perhaps it will take a while for mine to show up since I should only be a 3ish, but still
Google PR
I've kept my good old 5 in the pagerank bar. But since we don't know how old the data rolled out are, your penalty might be removed in realtime values.
bza, good point.
bza, good point.
My pagerank didn't change
My pagerank didn't change any; however, my site dropped 13 spots on my targeted serp. From 14 to 27. I'm very peeved.
Is there any way of telling if you were penalized?
Pagerank
Mine went up to PR4.
A good start
A strange way to interact, indeed. Maybe there's a hidden obstacle somewhere, who knows?
My blog went to an initial three at the first round where it participated.
Same Here
I truly understand where you're coming. Google slapped my PR too from PR 4 to zero and its been like that all these months. Although the prediction was that I'd get a PR 5, the update gave me a flat zero still.. yeah i used to do those sponsored reviews thing but i've stopped the day i got penalized. am still hoping google will give my blog it's Page rank.
Well, this is exactly the
Well, this is exactly the problem when one company has a monopoly on something. Google has a stranglehold on search, and they have the power to really ruin a lot of people's businesses. It is unfortunate.
Strange PR update
Our site, which is a busy site, dropped a PR, i have looked at many of my competitors, and it looks like people with low quality links have been hit by the PR update. Traffic levels has had no bearing on the update i think. Good amounts of quality not purchased links make the difference. Watch this space.
Still stable
i hope someday google gods put eyes on my rank
Me too
My PR also dropped too and I can't understand why? I think that it might have something to do with the fact I'm on a subdomain and my main blogs PR dropped.
Subpages did not update
Well our site remains with the same PR4, so do the new subpages we published back in January!
I was hoping that the subpages of the site will have some sort of PR instead of being ZERO...but hey, this is GOOGLE world.
~PEACE~
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