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.
Really bad news! Are you on PR3 now Abe?
Twitter: momblogger
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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.
[...] site. Yuga who is one of the affected blogger posted the other known sites that is also affected here although some says it is not because of the Text links since there are some bloggers who are not [...]
Yeah saw it coming yesterday as the datacenters were updating. 2 Points down on my own blog as well.
This is scary, I hope Google doesn’t reduce my PR 5 rating. It’s time to review those link ads once more.
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.
[...] the phenomenon I saw yesterday has actually more than just my site. As Abe indicates, the PR update actually hit a lot of the major websites. I was surprised to see these sites get [...]
Twitter: dennison
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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
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/
[...] lot of blogs were affected by the current PageRank update. Fortunately, none of my blogs got a downgrade. They all remain the same. Now, let me answer some [...]
Twitter: mikkogozalo
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I’ve read several posts on Google penalizing sites selling links lately.
I’m at 0, buti nalang walang negative.
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.
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.
mine is PR5.
yeehaw!
but then again, i’m not into the whole pagerank thing so it’s the least of my priorities, really.
too bad
[...] latest update from Google is the latest talk of Pinoy Blogs (abe, jozzua, james, jozzua, mahrgil, jayvee), so I’ve checked if this also affects search [...]
Twitter: AjaLapus
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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!
Twitter: jaypee
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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/
There was a PR update?
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..
i forgot, i have TLA links in my blog but I took it just today.. could those links contributed to the sudden drop?
Twitter: mparazgmail.com
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Here’s the guy who cut down on the pageranks.
Weird. All of my websites have the same PRs as before. PR0, PR3, PR4…
Personally, I believe more on Google’s internal PR than the toolbar PR. You can still rank well with low PR.
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