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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