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.
My blog PR demoted to PR2 from PR4
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.
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
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.
Mine got an upgrade to PR 5
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
Hello po! Pwede po bang malaman san makikita ang google announcements?
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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?
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.
Hey,
Now after 3 months from 31st Dec 08, Google finally update my site’s PR as on 2nd April 09.
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says:
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!!!
This will really help lots of business minded people to be able to be featured online.
Thanks for sharing Google pr update every 3 months
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.