Google Pagerank Update December 2008
08. Dec, 2008 
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Yesterday evening google did another pagerank update. Shockingly our PR dropped from an average PR6 to PR3 – seems google wants to sell their own links instead of letting others get the money.
This blog suffered even more. A drop from PR4 to 0 is just brutal. Regarding this, we will take off any links and hope that this is sufficient for the next update to be rated higher again.
So one can be thankful that the SERP’s didn’t drop too. Seems the google PR doesn’t reflect the popularity and content worth anymore.
Still, this kind of politics doesn’t seem fair – people who rely on their sales via their website get cut down to a level they cannot make any income. Furthermore the type of adsense blocks are simply ugly and their fixed layouts do not fit in any case into a website. If google would think of letting the user decide how the link boxes should look like, more people would consider adding that to their pages. In comparison, a good high PR site can earn with only one link already between 80 and 120 euro per month. Would you ever get that via adsense?
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There’s been no change for us. We were pagrank zero across all pages pre-December, and we’re still pagerank zero now.
I don’t *think* we have anything particularly google-unfriendly on our pages (it’s basically SMF with a url rewriter, many others use the same) and we don’t go in for link farms etc.
We still have 6000 or so pages listed and continue to get a steady trickle of goole-visitors, the results pages have altered a little for the worse (they dropped our index and replaced it with a very obscure page that did however attract a vast number of hits on one single day for calendar reasons..)
Pagerank-wise though, no better no worse, it’s still rock bottom despite having 800 incoming links. Can’t figure it, given up trying.
I am just waiting for my website’s page rank update and worrying if I could get higher PR
You dropped from PR6 to PR3? oh that hurts a lot. I agree with you on google politics of link selling. Anyways, i am folllowing you since i started my website. I wish u get back what you really deserve.
Regards,
Ameya
Hi Ameya,
yes this really hurts as it means a decrease of a nice part of additional income. Well, we can just hope that since we took off any sold links that we will rise again in PR. Just glad it didn’t hit our SERPs, so we are still very good positioned with all major keywords we suppose to use.
So thanks for the good wishes
Glad you like what we publish!
take care
I have the same problems with some of my weblogs. Especially those who make money with affiliate links. Do you think the only solution is to remove those links?
Hi Bobbink,
In my opinion selling links isn’t the problem, as long as it is not too obvious, the big problem are the link portals open for everyone. If you put your domain there, google will have a close eye on your site, and if they see many new links being placed they for sure go and kick you by dropping your PR. Yet, PR isn’t really important for search engine rankings, but it’s very effective stopping sales, as noone will ever pay you enough for a PR3 or less page.
Who cares about PR? it doesnt reflect your page position. Most top rank pages arent PR6 they are PR3 I have yet to see through the tools that I use a PR6 site in a number one position. So who really cares if you have a PR of 0 or 6 if your still the top site. I have a PR of 2 and am 2nd for non specific keywords in a very competitive industry (luckily with a bunch of idiots who dont really know SE’s very well) You would earn more from being top dog on that than being top dog in PR and on page seven of the results.
You made some good points there. I did a search on the topic and found most people will agree with your what youre saying.
On the eve of April fools day Google updated the toolbar page rank again on 1st April 2009. This time they filtered more back links. Previously i have around 70 now i have less back links for my site testking 350-001. However 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. I implemented news section and rss feeds on the site which rocks well and may be the reason of ranking my all keywords.