Two weeks ago, Google penalized some blogs and websites for selling PageRank. Now, Techcruch reports that there has been a second wave of the crackdown and that many sites have been affected. Andy Beard reports that some of the affected blogs are Digg favorites. I am of the view that Google must reward obedient blogs (those blogs which do not have link farms) as they wage their Jihad against the so-called blog link farms.
I feel for the guys whose blogs and websites have been affected. But I would like to encourage them to continue improving their blogs by writing good stuff other than cursing Google. Such tactics will not help them because Google as the owner of the search engine have the right to make changes according to their liking. If the affected bloggers continue writing good stuff, other bloggers will link to them, their posts will make it big on digg, stumbleupon and other social booking marking sites and the traffic flow and the value of the their blogs will remain in tact.
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6 users commented in " A second wave of Google PageRank penalties "
Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackDo you happen to know when the next PageRanks will be released?
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I don’t know.And it seems Google is not saying anything as well. But speculation is rife in the blogosphere that Google intends to replace PageRank with TrustRank.
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Very good post Clement. People should just concentrate on having good content. My PR went from a 0 to 2 over the weekend which is a bonus but I dont want to concentrate on putting up good posts.
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Gerri, Great to hear that you PR went up to 2. Congrats!!!Mine remained fixed at 3.
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I have one site penalized but was still ranking high just like it did before..is just a toolbar penalty? The real PR is the same?
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Clement Nyirenda says:
December 20th, 2008 at 10:13 am
@Sam Nichols: I read somewhere that these PR penalties will never affect your SERPs. They are only used as a tool to deter prospective link buyers from getting interested in your site. They also reduce your bargaining ability in case someone wants to advertise their business/products/website on your site. If you have a high Tool Bar PR (which everyone sees), you can make more deals and more money. If you want to make more money then you can confess your sins to the almighty Google and I am sure you will be forgiven if you agree to follow their way. Lol!
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