Well, I am not surprised. Evidently Google has decided to punish me as well. At least this may be looked as a consolation to other bloggers out there. Noticed I said consolation not justification.
The drop in page rank from PR4 to PR2 is significant I would say. So am I a bad neighborhood? I wish Google would put out a list of websites that are qualified as “bad websites to link to”. There are about 500 blogs out there that link to me, some have a site-wide blogroll links pointing my way. If you are one of those please consider to remove your link to my website. I am very serious about it- no offense will be taken.
Teli, in my 6 years of doing SEO I've noticed a few things. One is that if you have a solid PR for awhile and all the sudden it dips or increases that means googles updating pr and from what I've seen whatever that new # is you get a glimpse of is what you're going to get.
Of course google changes all the time and no one can say for sure what they'll do next so it's up to each SEO or webmaster to track it for themselves.
I am not tracking copyblogger's pr but I can tell you it takes then more then a few days for the PR to settle,, it's more like weeks even months I've seen.
Jeff
Oh and Vlad,, you might want to start hiding your affiliate links with javascript so it doesn't look like that's all you are promoting. I believe google might penalize for sites that link out with a lot of affiliate links. Peace.
Not necessarily so, Jeff.
You’re correct that one shouldn’t take too much stock in the green bar they see in their browser, but Google does fluctuate and the lowest number isn’t always the final number.
Take Copyblogger for intance; although Brian’s PR dipped down to 4, his final PR is 7 although it fluctuated between 4 and 7 for days. 4 was his new number, but it wasn’t his final number.
If you truly want to see what your future/final pagerank will be, have a look at the PR Digger site that Brian linked out to. It gives you an general overview of what numbers the datacenters are giving off and you can guess your final number by looking at what the majority of them are saying.
In Vlad’s case, it looks like you may be heading into a PR2 direction, though I must admit, I didn’t take the time to count them.
~ Teli
I also wanted to add, Vlad, that if this change is of enough concern to you, you may want to consider following Loren’s instructions for getting Google to reconsider — that’s if you weren’t selling links, of course. 😉
On another note, your comment spam plugin may be affecting your site’s rendering after a comment is submitted. The last time around, I received a page filled with your site’s HTML code (took a quick screen shot if you need it, just e-mail me).
~ Teli
Teli, in my 6 years of doing SEO I’ve noticed a few things. One is that if you have a solid PR for awhile and all the sudden it dips or increases that means googles updating pr and from what I’ve seen whatever that new # is you get a glimpse of is what you’re going to get.
Of course google changes all the time and no one can say for sure what they’ll do next so it’s up to each SEO or webmaster to track it for themselves.
I am not tracking copyblogger’s pr but I can tell you it takes then more then a few days for the PR to settle,, it’s more like weeks even months I’ve seen.
Jeff
Oh and Vlad,, you might want to start hiding your affiliate links with javascript so it doesn’t look like that’s all you are promoting. I believe google might penalize for sites that link out with a lot of affiliate links. Peace.
im new to blogging. Don't much about PR. sorry to hear about the PR drop. But you can rebuild it right? Goodluck! Technology Tweaks and Tricks
im new to blogging. Don’t much about PR. sorry to hear about the PR drop. But you can rebuild it right? Goodluck! Technology Tweaks and Tricks
Lame, I hope your PR goes back up. Google really likes to mess around with PR a lot, mine goes up and down quite a bit on my various sites.
Lame, I hope your PR goes back up. Google really likes to mess around with PR a lot, mine goes up and down quite a bit on my various sites.
Google can be evil for everyone =/
If I go and submit links to Google.com on all the bad neighborhoods and spam sites then will the google PR decrease from 10 to 5?….
This is indeed ridiculous how Google has slapped such a nice blog here. Sageblogger has always been a wonderful resource for all of us. And we all know that this site doesn’t deserve a 0 PR. Someone should make Google understand this.