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Google slapping PageRank Penalties

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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Abe is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of YugaTech with over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. He is one of the pioneers of blogging in the country and considered by many as the Father of Tech Blogging in the Philippines. He is also a technology consultant, a tech columnist with several national publications, resource speaker and mentor/advisor to several start-up companies.

43 Responses

  1. Avatar for creating a blog creating a blog says:

    Hello! Do you use Twitter? I’d like to follow you if that would be okay. I’m undoubtedly enjoying your blog and look forward to new
    posts.

  2. Avatar for skysenshi skysenshi says:

    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.

  3. Avatar for SEO birmingham SEO birmingham says:

    Thanks for sharing Google pr update every 3 months

  4. Avatar for Jamesh Jamesh says:

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

  5. Avatar for cj cj 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!!!

  6. Avatar for meapemisy meapemisy says:

    Hi all. I would like to recommend a SEO tool to exchange links – ForOzik.com. I started to use it and the results are very well.

  7. Avatar for Neetu Sharma Neetu Sharma says:

    Hey,

    Now after 3 months from 31st Dec 08, Google finally update my site’s PR as on 2nd April 09.
    @@

    http://www.seowonders.com

  8. Avatar for Latest Google Page Rank Update Latest Google Page Rank Update says:

    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.

  9. Avatar for dendi dendi says:

    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?

  10. Avatar for Benjamin Benjamin says:

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

  11. Avatar for Maruel Maruel says:

    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… :(

  12. Avatar for Tom Tom says:

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

  13. Avatar for Grace Grace says:

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

  14. Avatar for Grace Grace says:

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

  15. Avatar for James | PinoyMoneyTalk.com James | PinoyMoneyTalk.com says:

    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

  16. Avatar for Sonnie Sonnie says:

    Mine got an upgrade to PR 5

  17. Avatar for KK KK says:

    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.

  18. Avatar for jomar jomar says:

    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

  19. Avatar for autocad autocad says:

    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.

  20. Avatar for Rachel Rachel says:

    My blog PR demoted to PR2 from PR4 :(

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