Are Your Ready For No-AdSense No-Adwords Day?
October 24, 2007 – 4:54 pmThere are no big changes on the Wall Street today, after Google danced around and penalized websites by reducing so called “page rank”. Google stock closed at $675.82 just 5 cents more than it closed yesterday.
In fact it does not look to have any effect at all on how the stock traded today, even though there was about $15 dip today around 11am, just about the time news about page rank penalties have hit the blogoshpere. The question is are the two connected?
It is a little bit puzzling that a CNNmoney geeky reporter did not even mention that there were some waves in the blogosphere over the penalties, considering the fact that CNN is owned by Time Warner who also owns AOL one of the largest Google’s partners.
If any one can make Google dance, it will be giants like eBay or Time Warner.
But what about us bloggers and small time players? Well I believe that that collectively we can deliver a strong message to big G. How? How about “No AdSense- No AdWords Day”? I believe that collectively we can send massage as strong ad eBay did once upon a time.
Update: If you read the comments on CNNmoney article, there is comment by a guy who sold all of his stock at $670- I wonder if he was a blogger??? 
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Frankly, it is amazing at how up in arms people have become about this.
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They will not be a number one SE if people begin to loose trust in them.
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They can change their score as much as they like. Being a publicly traded company transparency can help them a little.
Look I am the last one to worry. While I made some money in the past with TLA and reviews I did not make a killing so I am loosing nothing.
We all speculate that paid links may be the major cause. However punishment is not extended equally. Just be straight forward say "look guys you have heard we the big G do not like paid links and this is what we are going to do and this is how we are going to punish you".
99% of bloggers were not affected, you right. They are only after the to 1% to send a message ;) While that to 1% may earn the most, they probably spend the most as well.
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in addition I'm not sure what message you would be trying to send?
"hey google, you aren't allowed to change your own ranking score!" doesn't make much sense.
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