Comments on: “Why did our PageRank go down?”

By: John

John — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 12:26:33 +0000

This is absolutely the right way for Google to go if they want to control paid-for links.

We’re in a competitive niche and have emails on an almost daily basis from marketers working for some of the biggest names in our industry wanting to know the cost of text links and articles, all with the caveat that they must be dofollow.

We’ve never accepted any of the offers – or paid for links elsewhere – but we see the evidence of it working with rankings for many of those we’ve received emails from outranking us. We have a good inbound links from all the major players in our niche and every article we produce (often up to 10-15 a day) is opinionated and unique, and yet we find ourselves outranked even by sites that re-publish our articles and link back to us.

This doesn’t seem to happen in Bing or Yahoo, but it’s difficult to continue to play by Google’s rules when others benefit at our expense. If Google continue to play hardball with sites exploiting paid for links then perhaps we will eventually see a properly level playing field, but it does seem that it’s a very small number being penalised and legitimate site playing by the rules suffer as a result.

Do this – it makes sense – but do it properly or not at all. Waiting for an outside report before taking action does seem a bit ‘old school’. The algorithms obviously don’t work in most cases.

By: Satish

Satish — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 08:45:32 +0000

Yes, I’ve been observing a lot of PR drops in many sites. And all those websites which told me that they lost their PR were selling dofollow links via guest posts, and text ads. It’s really good to see that Google is very strict about their quality guidelines.

By: Firas Darwish

Firas Darwish — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 04:42:30 +0000

i lost access to my gmail accounts two times in one month

i’ll try the mentioned tool

By: Innes

Innes — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 09:02:38 +0000

Black hat methods are a sure way for this to happen. If there is any link building in place, it MUST be done to a high quality and must be in line and in touch with the rulings all set out by google. All links going back to the website must have some form of a focus and a purpose.

By: ravi

ravi — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 14:19:19 +0000

I don’t have a Pagerank, my site gets good traffic but it has 0 Pagerank what can be the reason? please help

By: Andreas Voniatis

Andreas Voniatis — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 23:23:45 +0000

By the way, you mentioned the Newspaper should remove them, surely making them all no follow would be a sufficient act of repentance?

By: Andreas Voniatis

Andreas Voniatis — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 23:19:33 +0000

Just as the newspaper and any webmaster for that matter has the right to engage in whatever linking practices they want to do. Google has every right to decide whether to trust the webmaster’s behaviour or not and thus what PageRank to assign.

By: Rob McCance

Rob McCance — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 00:52:33 +0000

That’s a brutal drop but breaking one of the primary rules is an aggressive move..

By: Jonathan Jones

Jonathan Jones — Sun, 16 Sep 2012 07:08:10 +0000

Hmm. So, what if we link to our own personal sites, like on blogs for example? Will we still get penalized of they are dofollow links?

By: Darrell

Darrell — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 04:13:25 +0000

Hey Matt

You have got to try out this new Bing challenge test..here’s the link…side by side search results test to see which search engine provided better results for users ..You choose the results from 1 of several choices. Its only 5 questions….Guess who is winning? Absolutely brilliant idea…

http://www.bingiton.com/Landingpage.aspx?form=&publ=&crea=