I had a post I was planning about page rank and how some sites have gone down. But yesterday morning I got an email from another webmaster who mentioned that her page rank went down again, as well as other “big” sites, and even The Blog World has dropped.
It seems common sense to me that Google Page Rank is based on the incoming links and the quality of their website. This means if you have 10 sites with a page rank of 5 linking to you, you’re better off than if you had 100 sites with no page rank linking to you. Right? So some of my friends are going around and commenting on sites that don’t have “no follow” to try and go up the ranks by getting more linkbacks. This helps with the quality rating on your site, but it doesn’t help with Google’s Page Rank. Why?
Well, if you pay attention to the page rank on the comments/entry pages, you’ll see they have none. So your site has just earned 100 links from 0 Page Rank websites. Is this good for you? No. It is technically a “vote” for your website, but when there are a lot out of nowhere it starts to become a negative vote.
So now all the major sites have gone down in page rank. I have a theory on why this is happening. Google didn’t update their Page Rank back in July and now people are dropping like mad. It seems, to me, that they’re trying to raise the “quality” of the page rank. I think they’ve caught on to what everyone is doing and they’re adjusting it to make it so that those that are purposely trying to get page rank aren’t any more special than those who have earned it.
Has your page rank gone down? What effect has it had on your site?
all the big sites have gotten slapped on the wrist because of paid posts and paid links and people who sponsor google is trying to tell people they cant earn money off their site meanwhile people have been doing this for years.. google just is playing god.
October 27, 2007 @ 3:42 pmYeah, but now a lot of them have gone back up. I read that Google accidentally penalized some of those sites and their ranks went back up. I think when they were redoing the ranks, normal text links were getting confused with bad ones.
October 27, 2007 @ 5:40 pmMaybe.
A few bad seeds have to ruin it for the rest of us.
October 28, 2007 @ 12:05 amOne of my site lost PR from 5 to 2 other lost it completly .
October 28, 2007 @ 2:32 pmAnd my blog went from 0to 3 this time .
I don’t think its paid links MAINLY I think it’s the people who use dofollow as well. I’m down to a 0 from a 4.
November 16, 2007 @ 3:38 pm