Author: Sean McGoldrick
PageRank Slashed - The World Keeps Turning
Sunday, November 18th, 2007 @ 7:46 am
PageRanks latest adjustment seems to have been directed against bloggers who write sponsored posts.
I was away from my computer for a few days. When I returned to check my stats yesterday and saw that my PageRank on this blog had been reduced to zero I was a little surprised.
I got my first indication that this was a more widespread thing from reading an e-mail from John Chows site; I was one who signed up in the recent competition!
Considering that some people have seen their site knocked by PR5 all the way down to zero my fall from PR2 down to zero doesn’t seem so bad.
The PayPerPost blog has advice for posties:
“If you have been hit by Google unfortunately there is little we can do. We know that Google PR does not reflect your actual traffic and it is sad that Google chooses to over look that to protect their own bottom line. We now know from some of our friends inside of Google (thanks ‘bob’) that they are now looking for phrases such as PPP, PayPerPost, ReviewMe, Payu2blog, etc. in the text of your post. For that reason I would suggest refraining from using any type of this text in the body of your posts, sponsored or not. When you disclose thank the sponsor, not PPP.”
Personally, I’m not prepared to remove references to sponsored post sites on this blog to get the PageRank restored. I’m not prepared to do this because I have found them to be so profitable! I now have a weekly internet income of $100 per week through a combination of PayPerPost, Sponsored Reviews and Smorty.
Because my PageRank was only a PR2 anyway the effect of it’s loss on my ability to make money online through sponsored posts is very slight.
In any case PayPerPost are about to introduce a new system which will go some way towards making PageRank irrelevant for posties. Ted Murphy also revealed on the PayPerPost blog that they are accelerating the release of their new RealRank system which they intend to use as a replacement for PageRank to rate blogs.
My PageRank’s Gone And Left Me
Earn Money Blogging, PayPerPost, Sponsored Reviews, PageRank, Google
November 18th, 2007 at 11:22 am
Sorry to hear about your predicament, even I was shocked by the PR 0 for many paid review blogs. That is a really huge penalty there. Hopefully Google will have change of heart, because I see a lot of violations of Web ethics and they are not even paid reviews by the way.
November 18th, 2007 at 6:30 pm
Like you am I not going to let Google dictate my blog. I am gonna continue doing what I do with my sponsored posts. I think Google has lost it’s credibility with how they rank their sites. Page Rank has just become worthless in my eyes.
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