The October Page Rank Drop
Oct 26th, 2007 by Martin
OK, every blogger out there is writing about this in detail so i’m not even going to bother to write about it directly but instead have a bit of a rant. Everyone who is panicking about if there pagerank on their blog is going to go down stop right now, it’s boring and I don’t want to hear about it. This update in my opinion has had a couple of purposes:
1) Put fear into people by hitting the “big boys” in the industry or authoratitive sites that most people read so the message gets out quickly that they have been hit and they will take your page rank down to. Big whoop even if they do, the sites that have been hit have had no impact in traffic.
2) Prove that page rank is not a metric to judge to help judge a cost of buying a link. It’s not suppost to be for webmasters but more for general surfers to help judge the authority of a page. Page rank has not been updated in 6ish months stop worrying about it.
I think this update has made the authoratitive sites more authoratitive by dropping their page rank. I say this because these people are going to gain a lot of links. Lets face it, it’s a good viral Google has created for them! Most big sites are writing about the sites efected and linking to them. This makes those sites even more desirable to get involved with. As long as your traffic is coming don’t worry. Has anyone heard of anyone that is actually buying links being effected? No I haven’t either, and I know a lot of sites that have bought links and have still maintained positions in he serps.
This update is only going to panic people into either not linking to a site because they think they will get punnished or putting nofollows on everything just to make sure they don’t get a page rank drop. However if this happens then no one is going to show any trust to anyone else by adding no follow, then where will Google’s whole trust rank be. That quite an extreme take but quite possible. I kind of wish I had been given a PR drop now, I might have got some more inbound links. Also I have noticed my rank increase to 13-15 on google.com for make money online. Front page here I come!
That’s a bad move that you started publishing Zac Johnson’s feeds, converting your blog to a splog.
Earn Health, I’ve been testing out a plugin that scrapes RSS feeds, It’s taken quite a while for anyone to notice! I only used that as a test to see how it works and if it’s possible to get ranked in the SERPS. I’m going to write about my findings and pass out relevent link love so no one misses out. All my content (except those few posts) is original and written by me which I will continue to do.
Yep, I noticed it right from the beginning with a gush of articles especially on a particular day from Zac but was reluctant to comment on it, stuck to wait-and-watch attitude.
Hope I get a link for catching you, in your article on findings of this research, lol.
No PageRank drop for you, you’re standing still.
I would like to share with you the joy of getting a PR4 (from PR0).
My PR droped from 3 to 0
Now it’s July 2008 drop! You have been reduced to zero, pacdesco!