Comments on: PageRank Update, April 2008 – Performancing is still penalized, how about you?

By: Howard Stewart

Howard Stewart — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:31:53 +0000

Hmmm…my PageRank doesn’t went down however it doesn’t went up! I am stuck with PR3 despite from the fact my site is too active. Maybe Google is playing other business that they don’t want us to know. Hope this problem will be resolve soon.

By: Another Google Slave

Another Google Slave — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 11:26:38 +0000

I have to agree with Ryan that it is frustrating. You get penalized by Google for whatever reason and you make a simple “how can I make things right” request and you never hear back from them. As you say Google is basically saying “We don’t care”.

To me it seems completely idiotic to display a reinclusion request form that essentially goes nowhere.

Unfortunately when we build a business upon shifting sand adjustments have to be made.

Although I am not a blackhatter myself I can see how some people who have worked hard to play by the rules simply decided to say “to heck with trying to do things that are always some nebulous shifting compliance. I’m gonna be like Google and only concern myself with making money”

Hopefully I will escape the Google plantation soon and move on to true online business freedom.

By: Sunil Gupta

Sunil Gupta — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 20:10:24 +0000

One of my blog got PR4 from PR3 and other one got PR2 from N/A in this update.

Don’t worry, you will be back to PR7 soon

By: CAMBRIDGE WEB DESIGN

CAMBRIDGE WEB DESIGN — Thu, 15 May 2008 02:25:46 +0000

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~

By: Rose D

Rose D — Sat, 10 May 2008 15:59:27 +0000

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.

By: jean sebastien

jean sebastien — Fri, 09 May 2008 05:42:02 +0000

i hope someday google gods put eyes on my rank

By: Tim Gray

Tim Gray — Sun, 04 May 2008 04:27:12 +0000

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.

By: James Mowery

James Mowery — Sun, 04 May 2008 02:07:49 +0000

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.

By: waystomakemoneyonline

waystomakemoneyonline — Sat, 03 May 2008 18:27:22 +0000

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.

By: Talkpress

Talkpress — Fri, 02 May 2008 09:35:57 +0000

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.

By: PI Guy

PI Guy — Thu, 01 May 2008 14:45:27 +0000

Mine went up to PR4.

By: Brent W

Brent W — Thu, 01 May 2008 13:46:01 +0000

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?

By: Ryan Caldwell

Ryan Caldwell — Thu, 01 May 2008 03:07:38 +0000

bza, good point.

By: bza

bza — Thu, 01 May 2008 03:01:23 +0000

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.

By: Jesse(The Penny Saved)

Jesse(The Penny Saved) — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 08:55:24 +0000

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

By: ando

ando — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 06:00:58 +0000

I can’t complain my Page Rank went up, even though it is only a 4 it is better than nothing I suppose.

By: Barbara Ling (aka Owlbert)

Barbara Ling (aka Owlbert) — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 05:14:53 +0000

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