Google PageRank Update and It’s All Down

The PR update affected a lot of people. Almost everyone got down and it is more difficult to get a high PR now!

Many have said PR is on it's way out... So what's the big deal... If you haven't dropped in the SERP's and it is affecting your bottom line... Then I guess it's just an ego thing...

Problogger got back to PR6 again. I think the slap is especially to those who sell links including you; and Problogger is not, hence got rectified.

I noticed PR4 on your blog. Not 5. :???:

You said phase one of pagerank drops, is there a phase two?

I moved up to a 4, so I'm at least happy about that.

it’s all John Chow’s fault, etc.

hahaha. Nice one John.

I seemed to have found no change in my rank i have noticed thought that the green bar of death still says 0 but some pages on my site if you asks to see there google link it gives my home page which means that it must have a page rank of over 4 but no update Chuffing google. Mind you love that they have leveled the playing field a bit.

I'm going to blog about this tomorrow :)

ok... a few hours passed and I am still PR7... :mrgreen:

Hey John, your pagerank is down to 4 now.

I never really understood Google being anti-paid links. If a site is a trusted source and they have links does that make them an untrusted source?

The focus on paid links only draws attention to part of the problem. Google is concerned with paid links only as part of its overall concern of being able to detect and weight link schemes between sites correctly. This crackdown on some sites/ blogs may reflect the idea that those SEO sites/ blogs have entered into an excessive number of artificial linking, whether paid or not.

Looks like you've been taken to a 4 now :shock:

I have an idea..John should start a Google clone :twisted:

I guess my firefox is messed up too on the page rank thing because it is now showing a page rank of 4 for johnchow.com

I think this is obvious.

There are tons of "How to make money with a blog", and almost all of them are just a cut/paste of hte only 2 or 3 sites that really make money with a blog.

Obviously Google does not know how much you earn from a website so it's going to "punish" them all.

Google's Revenge? Anyhow, you win some, you lose some, thats life...

I went from 3 to 2 and I don't even have Text Link Ads.
I did some PPP reviews though.

Hmmm, they must be releasing the new pagerank in waves or stages or something because I'm still showing as a PageRank of 0....unless Google just thinks my blog sucks that bad....or maybe it does :???:

Hmmm... This could be very crucial for a lot of bloggers.... :cry:

This Google PR has really damaged a part of the community. Especially those doing paid post. But funny, some sites that don't use text link ads are also affected.
Let's see for a few days.

Ha, nice post John. Google are getting too big for their own good, someone needs to knock em' down. Though I don't hate Google as I don't go round hating popular people or companies for the sake of it like some do, I think Google are awesome. But what I don't like is their sneaky backdoor tactics and lack of communication. Personally I couldn't care less about PR, I never have, it's a number. Nothing else. And I don't sell links.

I guess you John don't need to justify your popularity and credibility with a pagerank. It goes to show that you have influence and a following that will last for a long time.

Cheers,
Carlo Selorio

I have been able to make plenty of money with all my sites at pr n/a so I dont really care about PR.

Google constantly changes their PRs internally, so you shouldn't any difference in traffic.

I am starting to not like google.
Lets go ASK.com!

Oh yeah I forgot to say congrats on all of the new subscribers. I think you wiped the floor with shoemoney. Well done.

Mike

It's crazy the way google think that they predict what is popular on the web. If people goto a site and keep coming back it's got nothing to do with google. It's the page content itself.

Mike

So what happens now when you have places link Pay Per Post what base what reviews you can do on your page rank?

Looks to me that Google likes to play games. One of my sites went from a pr 2 to a pr 0. Wonderful, given the fact that it has tons more backlinks than it previously had. I wonder what we can expect next from Google.

Yeah I noticed that its gown down to 4. I was kinda shocked. from PR6 to PR4. Thats a massive leap. Anyways. Best of luck for the contest.

Hmmm - I am still showing at 5 :!:

nice trick John I like how every person who types RSS turns into a link for your feed...how did you do that?

RSS RSS

I'm sorry but I went from a pr 6 to a pr 5 and It hasn't effected my ability yet.

I kinda of figured that you'd take a hit, JC. Fortunately, ronaldlewis.com still remains at a PR 5, so no impact for me. Regardless, does PR really matter? It's really about execution and driving traffic to your site and monetizing it -- Much like JC has succeeded in doing.

I've recently given up my day job to try to earn money from blogging. I'm only in the early stages and to me gaining a good PageRank is very important. It's a bit worrying therefore to see how variable it is once you do gain it. Google certainly does have a lot of power over your life if you're trying to make a living from this.

Why is everyone rolling over for Google? Isn't the Internet supposed to be the "great equalizer?" And ,why can't Google be as "transparent" as the rest of us are supposed to be, instead of being so...covert? That would be in my ever-so-humble opinion, good business! The only reason for not giving an explanation for your actions is because you're doing something evil. Otherwise, you would shout it from the rooftops. I had high hopes for the Internet but it would appear that the Internet like the government is owned and operated by the Corporate Fat Cats. :evil:

I feel your pain we had a lot of sites drop rank but our sites with no advertising at all seemed to stay the same. Of course I am not saying that is the reason but it is food for thought.

We are still waiting to be page ranked so that we too can fall from grace! :shock:

Is pagerank really that important anymore? It seems like the more Google messes with it, the less relevance people (advertisers) will be placing on it. Or at least that is what we hope!

Congrats on reaching 13K RSS readers. It will be interesting to see what happens after your contest ends...

Lost my PR7... but it's not the end of the world, isn't it?

Long live RSS and no need for Google?

The wrath of Google. John, dropping from 6 to 5 is that bad. Some sites were dropped from PR 7 to 3. Ouch.

My firefox page rank addon is showing you at 0. My blog is still at 4. and my new blog is at 5.

Hmm interesting..

I wish google would remove those pages that just have tons of google ads. Example all those pages that come up when you mistype a domain name.

Last week my organic traffic got chopped in half from Google but stayed the same from Yahoo!, MSN search, msn live, etc. I reconfigured my pages, added some "noindex follow" and straight "nofollow" tags to many pages and many single links on those pages and the traffic bounced back bigger than before.

My PR hasn't changed, I don't run a typical blog however, I use wordpress as my current choice of cms mostly and replaced comments with a forum feature.

My new since April blogs still don't have rank yet. My mini-sites that have been around for a few years are still at 3 or 4, no change there.

I'm still at PR 3 and search traffic has gone up quite nicely the past few days. I'm working on a little post tomorrow about my theories on the drop and how the whole PR system can be fixed... I suspect a lot of it has to do with low quality links and viral marketing.