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Google slapping PageRank Penalties

Abe Olandres October 25, 2007 · 2 min read

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As in it’s all over the blogosphere now. A lot of popular sites have been slapped with PageRank penalties, some scrambling for their lives. And some though it was just this blog.

Here’s a long list of very popular and trusted sites been drastically affected by the recent PageRank update.

http://www.downloadsquad.com PR5 -> PR4
http://www.autoblog.com PR6 -> PR4
http://www.engadget.com PR7 -> PR5
http://www.problogger.net PR6 -> PR4
http://www.copyblogger.com PR6 -> PR4
http://www.joystiq.com PR6 -> PR4
http://www.tuaw.com PR6 -> PR4
http://www.searchengineguide.com PR7 -> PR4
http://www.searchenginejournal.com PR7 -> PR4
http://www.johnchow.com PR6 -> PR4
http://www.quickonlinetips.com PR6 -> PR3
http://weblogtoolscollection.com PR6 -> PR4
http://www.seroundtable.com PR7 -> PR4
http://www.blogherald.com PR6 -> PR4
http://www.washingtonpost.com PR7 -> PR5
http://www.washingtontimes.com PR6 -> PR4
http://www.forbes.com PR7 -> PR5
http://www.sfgate.com PR7 -> PR5
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com PR6 -> PR4

This is what Google has been announced recently — sites selling raw link for PR juice will be penalized.

So, did the recent update affected your blogs/websites?

It is also possible that this recent update is screwed in some way. If you remember some 6 months ago when that PR update was so screwed some sites easily get PR6 and even on blog I owned for 6 months got a PR8 page. Maybe this time, it’s the other way around.

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86 Comments

Megha Singh · 6 years ago

google stop page rank algorithm

How To Make A · 13 years ago

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creating a blog · 13 years ago

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skysenshi · 16 years ago

I was actually shocked when I saw one of the newer blogs, who have higher following than my decrepit old blog, go down from 3 to 0. I got retained at 3. I hope it doesn’t get any lower than that because I update regularly now.

SEO birmingham · 16 years ago

Thanks for sharing Google pr update every 3 months

Jamesh · 16 years ago

This will really help lots of business minded people to be able to be featured online.

cj · 16 years ago

too bad, I used to have PR3, then a few weeks later it went down to 2. and i was glad to note that some of my other pages got PR 1 because of some sites that linked to these pages. but today when i checked my PR, all of my pages including the main page now got a 0 PR!!!

meapemisy · 16 years ago

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Neetu Sharma · 17 years ago

Hey,

Now after 3 months from 31st Dec 08, Google finally update my siteâ€™s PR as on 2nd April 09.
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http://www.seowonders.com

Latest Google Page Rank Update · 17 years ago

Google updated the toolbar page rank again on 2 April 2009.This time they filtered more back links. Previously i have around 70 now i have just 10 back links left for my site http://www.cybex.in. But site rank well on all top keywords. It seems google backlinks scheme updated too. It still loves article links as i did for my site.

dendi · 17 years ago

Saat ini PR saya Slam Dunk jadi 0 (nol), saya dah berusaha dengan saya dah coba posting rutin, submit ke directory dan juga blobwalking, tetapi PR-nya tetep slam dunk jadi 0 I(nol), gimana ya ? seberapa google menghukum PR suatu web/blog?

Benjamin · 17 years ago

Wow, no fun. I wonder what they did to get this penalty. Duplicate content perhaps? I guess we’ll never know…

Maruel · 18 years ago

Just got a “Google Slap” last sunday. My PR dropped from 2 to 0. 2 na nga lang PR ko eh kinuha pa nila, hindi na sila naawa, huhuhu… :(

Tom · 18 years ago

My PR flopped from 3 to zero last Sunday. The blogflux said that my PR is still 3.

Grace · 19 years ago

Before I got PR3 then it becomes PR2 and now, it’s PR0 :( how sad…..

Grace · 19 years ago

Hello po! Pwede po bang malaman san makikita ang google announcements?

James | PinoyMoneyTalk.com · 19 years ago

Just an update, Google has updated PR again this week. A lot of Pinoy sites have again been affected.

Check out the list of sites with reduced PR:

More Pinoy sites lose PageRank as Google updates… again

Sonnie · 19 years ago

Mine got an upgrade to PR 5

KK · 19 years ago

What is the difference of advertising and selling links? Yung advertising is also paying someone to blog about a certain company then link them up. It’s all very confusing. But I think the whole world just felt the grip of Google. I think the Internet community should come up with a non-baised system for ranking because alot of the advertising online is so dependent on the Google value. The monopoly game has been won.

jomar · 19 years ago

hmm, mine went up, i now have several pr4 and even more pr3 blogs . :)

nice.

of course i didn’t sell links or purchased them.

jomar

autocad · 19 years ago

Warning about engaging in paid links by Google was announced a long time ago. That’s why as much as possible I wanted to avoid, it but sometimes I’m tempted to do it because it appears that it’s only a threat. But now it happens.

Anyway I think PR might not affect much the ranking and traffic, because I see many sites with high PR but low traffic and low PR with high traffic.

And regarding the effect of the update on my sites, yes I was surprise because the sites I didn’t expect to have a PR did increase. One have PR0 -> PR3( http://www.filipinofriendsterworld.com ).
But sub domains have decreased PR.

Rachel · 19 years ago

My blog PR demoted to PR2 from PR4 :(

Jon · 19 years ago

Personally, I believe more on Google’s internal PR than the toolbar PR. You can still rank well with low PR.

Eugene · 19 years ago

Weird. All of my websites have the same PRs as before. PR0, PR3, PR4…

Miguel · 19 years ago

Here’s the guy who cut down on the pageranks.

make money online · 19 years ago

i forgot, i have TLA links in my blog but I took it just today.. could those links contributed to the sudden drop?

make money online · 19 years ago

PR ng blog ko ng drop din. From PR-4 to 2 and to PR-1 (without www)..is the update for good or we will expect another PR change in a matter of days? Last hour my website with a “www” had a PR-3 then now its down to 2. Very unpredictable..

DesignPinas · 19 years ago

There was a PR update?

Jaypee · 19 years ago

In Copyblogger’s case, he said that he never sold any links on his blog. There are other theories why these big time blogs got penalized.

http://jaypeeonline.net/internet/google-pagerank-update-results/

Aja Lapus · 19 years ago

Is Google trying to imply that TLA should be avoided? It is more profitable for me than Adsense. Please don’t take away my PR!

Lonely Pinoy · 19 years ago

too bad :(

Bryanboy · 19 years ago

mine is PR5.

yeehaw!

but then again, i’m not into the whole pagerank thing so it’s the least of my priorities, really.

leo · 19 years ago

Is PR thing really that valuable? As long as my earnings doesn’t change, it doesn’t seems to bother me at all. Oh, I don’t sell links anyway.

Rico · 19 years ago

I understand getting scared, since the almighty PR is literally an indicator of income. But what I don’t understand is how some people feel entitled to their previously high PR.

In any case, as the rules of the game change, we’ll see who adapts and who doesn’t.

Mikko · 19 years ago

I’ve read several posts on Google penalizing sites selling links lately.

I’m at 0, buti nalang walang negative.

James | PinoyMoneyTalk.com · 19 years ago

Mine got hit with a -2 penalty as well. I also saw that although the Inquirer, Manila Times, and Phil. Star’s sites still show PR 6 on the toolbar, a LivePR check shows that those media giants also lost PR.

http://www.pinoymoneytalk.com/2007/10/25/popular-sites-lose-pagerank/

Dennison Uy – Graphic Designer · 19 years ago

Kaya pala biglang nawala sa first page yung site ko. I even have screenshots that were taken just 6 hours ago. Ang bilis nawala parang bula :(

Alwell · 19 years ago

Before I read your post I already noticed some decrease in PR of some of my favorite websites. So far my sites were not affective maybe because I only have two PR4 which is not that high.

jhay · 19 years ago

This is scary, I hope Google doesn’t reduce my PR 5 rating. It’s time to review those link ads once more.

jozzua · 19 years ago

Yeah saw it coming yesterday as the datacenters were updating. 2 Points down on my own blog as well.

noemi · 19 years ago

Some are saying it is a penalty? out of my three (3) PR 6 sites, two of them are now mostly PR 4 in the google datacenters. Incidentally, the my lone PR 6 site is my old webhosting site which has no paid text links ads at all. lauren’s blog retains a PR 5 even if she has text link ads . Mine is now PR 3.