PageRank Promotes Blogicide!
I debated using "suicide" in the title, but decided that was too misleading. Yes, I did contemplate calling it quits earlier this month. My advertiser dumped this blog and, apparently, so did Google. If you have a PageRank indicator in your toolbar, you'll see that this entire website was demoted from a 5 to zero, "... Google's view of the importance of this page (0/10)". Google is punishing sites with paid links, something that never happened here. My compensatory move was to place the two top graphics in the sidebar, displaying a PR of 4.5 and site value of $17,906. Ironically, the traffic has increased quite a bit in the last few months. Go figure better, Google!
posted by Georganna Hancock M.S. | 2:36 PM
3 Comments:
Actually, I think you did a smart thing. My blog was demoted also. I should do something similar.
Good for you, Georganna! Google developed PageRank, but they seem to be doing everything in their power to render it useless.
I, too, use the SEOMOZ page strength tool along with my Alexa bar. My flagship site didn't lose PR, but some other sites did.
I'm glad that you aren't committing blogicide!
Thanks for the support, guys. I read somewhere that the white background in the PageRank bar indicates that the site will be reranked, but when, Oh, Lord? How long do we wait? I'm planning something more drastic than a critical whining if I don't get no satisfaction soon.
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