Oct
2007
PR update or PR penalty
October 25th, 2007 at 09:56 pm by ashok in GoogleI was waiting for pagerank update since last many months for improvment in PR of my blog and my other sites. I was expecting that my blog PR will become equal to some big blogs or atleast the difference between us will reduce. Although I have not get any increment in my PR, but I noticed that many big blogs have lost their PR, and now I am happy that PR of my blog is equal to many high profile blogs. Today I read this article at Dailyblogtips.com blog that many high profile blogs have lost their PR. Previously whose PR was 6 or 7 now their PR are 3 or 4.
Many people believes that this is Google penalty for selling links on their blog. Few months ago Matt Cutts also wrote in his blog that Google is modifying his algorithm to devalute paid links, it appears this PR penalty is in continuation of that.
I think it will affect many bloggers whose major revenue source is their blog, because link cost is directly proportional to PR, another thing which I am expecting is that now the cost of link will increased for high PR sites as there will be less high PR sites and also webmaster will avoid selling links in their sites in fear of google penalty.
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Ashok, I think the PR will not have any value hereafter. It was used to sell links and even sites altogether, but not anymore cos high profile blogs and lower ones have the same PR now. Sellers would rely more on Alexa and the Page views for selling links and blogs.
My assumption is that Google PR will become less important in the future.
Cheers!
Mani
PR number doesnot count until you are getting deserved position in search results. It’s a relative term. if Google updates it’s algorithm then too High profile sites would be ranked high (though 1 or 2 PR less than earlier) and low ones low.
When a user searches a keyword, what matters for Google or any other search engine is not PR of that page but relevancy of the content according to the keyword searched by the user. A relevant content site with PR2 can come before a site with less relevant content but PR5 and above.
You know there is so much fuss about getting page rank but i find that my best performing website has a page rank of zero.
Go figure!!
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