25 Oct 2007
1622 viewsWell it’s finally here. Weeks of Google first round penalizing directories then paid link blogs, now it has updated its backlink numbers. Now is the second round of penalizing where blogs having link farm is penalized. Here’s a round-up of demoted money making blogs
PR6
- Statcounter - Was PR10
PR5
- Ades Blog - Was PR7
- Engadget - Was PR7
- Washington Post - Was PR7
- Forbes - Was PR7
- Sun Times - Was PR7
- SF Gate - Was PR7
PR4
- John TP - Was PR6
- Problogger.net - Was PR6
- Copyblogger.com - Was PR6
- Search Engine Guide - Was PR7
- Search Engine Journal - Was PR7
- John Chow - Was PR6
- Yaro Starak - Was PR6
- Auto Blog - Was PR6
- Master New Media - Was PR7
- Joystiq - Was PR6
- Weblog Tools Collection - Was PR6
- Seroundtable - Was PR7
- Blog Herald - Was PR6
PR3
- Carlo Cab - Was PR5
- Tyler Cruz - Was PR5
- Paula Mooney - Was PR5
- Andy Beard - Was PR6
- Quick Online Tips - Was PR6
PR2
- Anak Melayu Boleh Blog - Was a PR4
- Job Mob - Was a PR4
PR1
- Courtney Tuttle - Was PR3
Looks like the new PR6 or PR7 is now PR4. Looks like it will be harder to get PR these days and the next PageRank, I hope no more of such demotion. I think it’s about time, such advertiser portals should employ another means to ascertain a blog popularity to create a buzz, and not solely depend on PageRank as it has been devalued with this recent move by the geniuses at Google
Do comment in here if I’ve missed out any blogs
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This is one of the major updates where it affect so many bloggers and sites too.
The issue here is that there is no clear guideline what works and what dont, so for those that are relying on the PR for advertisements, positioning etc, gonna be hit quite badly when theirs dropped so much.
Well i can truly know the extent of such demotion in a months time, when i calculate my earnings
google don’t want internet marketing blogs that might be seen as direct competitor to their advertising stream
i guess you forgot netbusinessblog and a couple others, dailyblogtips,andybeard and me have a list each. you might want to add them in as well.
hi dude
i have added your entry in my list. hope its ok :)
No problem!
One thing you’ll notice is that many of these sites weren’t selling links or if they were, they were nofollowing them which is ok according to Matt Cutts’ past blog posts.
The best explanation I’ve heard for the smackdown was in the comments to the Daily Blog Tips article where someone said that PR is a relative thing; if my site is clean for Google (it is) but I had 1000 links from dirty sites that just lost all their PR, my PR will come down too as a function of that result.
Jacob
you know yaro starak?
well i like his entry version where its just google new algorithm being implemented and plenty of blogs got demoted …
but then again, you can’t deny the fact that the notion of the majority of blogs that got demoted dabble in text link ads or advertised unknowingly bad neighbourhood in their blog. it could that that too
we’ll never know as search engine algorithm is hush-hush … we just need to adapt
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Sha gets your pagerank 2 whaha! i think everyone got their juice today…
yup got a PR and a -minus PR on my other blog
you win some, you lose some … haiz
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