Comments on: My Opinion on the Google Page Rank Massacre

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By: Bourse

Bourse — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 09:27:09 +0000

I don’t think it is such a tragedy. Actually it is happening on every website out there, everyone is getting “ranked down” and it is completely logical to me. After all the whole web is expanding, links are being exchanged more widely, and higher pr is getting easier to achieve for sites that don’t really deserve it.
Google just needed to make some change to its algorithm or its green pr bar would mean nothing.
Just check some of the bigger authority sites and you will see that their pr has dropped too.
I haven’t noticed a change in the traffic of my sites, nor a change in how I rank in the results. So I don’t see a reason to groan in desperation (yet). The way I see it, it is just another change affecting everyone and the only thought that worries me is what Sebastian said: “I bet that?s just testing the waters with tiny chunks. Many more massacres to come”. I have the same feeling that other bigger changes are coming…

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Why Google Won’t Discontinue Toolbar Pagerank | Distilled blog — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 11:50:28 +0000

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By: Andy Beard

Andy Beard — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 11:01:41 +0000

I haven’t heard of any updates with the LinkLove plugin, thus I would recommend Lucia’s Linky Love

It has a lot more control, and uses less CPU time

By: david deangelo

david deangelo — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 00:27:56 +0000

Well put. My site just dropped from PR4 to PR3. Do I care? No. As long as traffic keeps coming I don’t care what the toolbar looks like. It might as well not be there.

By: David Hopkins

David Hopkins — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 17:36:47 +0000

:P no. I was just pointing out the biggest PR drop I had seen.

By: Lyndoman

Lyndoman — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 08:56:53 +0000

David was that your attempt at sneaking in a link to a crappy directory? This is why no follow is needed.

By: Lyndoman

Lyndoman — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 08:51:05 +0000

Thanks Wendy

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JMorris Online » Blog Archive » PR Update Soap Opera — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 04:21:00 +0000

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By: David Hopkins

David Hopkins — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 22:16:15 +0000

The former PageRank 7 directory is now PR3/4: http://tagspage.com/

By: Rubab

Rubab — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 22:15:47 +0000

very right

By: David Hopkins

David Hopkins — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 22:14:41 +0000

Someone needs to develop a WP plugin that lets you decide which comments to follow and which to not. The search engines probably wont like this either though :|

I have seen one person recoup their PR by removing whatever was the problem and submitting a re-inclusion request.

By: smoMashup

smoMashup — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 20:50:08 +0000

http://www.allpassionmarketing.com/software.html#Link%20Love

maybe worth a try?

By: ian

ian — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 15:07:15 +0000

You rock.

By: Wendy Piersall

Wendy Piersall — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 14:11:20 +0000

PS – I no longer “advertise” that I am a DoFollow blog anymore. Have comments dropped off since I did that? Yes. A lot. But the ones that really have something to say are getting a little surprise from me.

By: Wendy Piersall

Wendy Piersall — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 14:09:36 +0000

Spend no more time on your search! :) I had the same problem and had to go back to NoFollow until I found the LinkLove plugin.

http://www.allpassionmarketing.com/software.html#linklove

Removes NoFollow for people who have commented 10+ times.

And in case you think that is too much, I have had one spammer leave around 6-7 spam comments before I caught onto what they were doing.

By: Lyndoman

Lyndoman — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 06:46:18 +0000

I mean comments made by real people who are probably seo’s slipping in their clients sites. I am becoming more careful who I link to as a few bad neighbourhoods slipped in will have a real effect.

I love that regular, trusted commenters get a do follow, and I want all the people who have commented here to get a do follow, not just because you commented here but because you produce quality stuff on your own blogs and I want my readers to go there after leaving here.

I think I may look for a plugin that gives trusted commenters instant do follow, or those who have made more than 3 comments a dofollow.

Ach, I just don’t want to spend too much time on this.

By: Coffee Break - October 26, 2007

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By: Yuri

Yuri — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 03:42:21 +0000

I’d put it even shorter :p

Nofollow doesn’t stop automated scripts from spamming any detected blog. Since your comments are moderated and not shown (hopefully), the 3 day nofollow won’t help much. Unless you mean comments made on posts by the real people, of course.

By: Lyndoman

Lyndoman — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 14:56:45 +0000

Discourage rather than eliminate.

By: smoMashup

smoMashup — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 14:08:22 +0000

so using nofollow will eliminate spam? Snap! Someone should tell Google, I bet they’d endorse it then ;)

By: Lyndoman

Lyndoman — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 13:22:08 +0000

@ I have changed my nofollow plugin to nofollow comments less than 3 days old. Older comments still carry the juice.

I am getting swamped by spammy comments and hope this will deter, for genuine commenters it doesn’t really change as after 3 days the nofollow comes off. Although I am considering getting rid of the dofollow as there is no real benefit and means I have to waste time deleting spam.

By: smoMashup

smoMashup — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 13:13:14 +0000

HA! You nofollowed the comments on this post. That’s either the most subtle and funny thing I’ve seen on the internet all week or a mistake. Either way it made me laugh.

By: Google Toolbar PageRank deductions make sense

Google Toolbar PageRank deductions make sense — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 12:22:12 +0000

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By: TheMadHat

TheMadHat — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 12:03:36 +0000

{ Yawn }

Google Was Founded By Aliens, Shot JFK, And Has Mind Control Technology

I had a similar view. PR dropped but nothing else did. Bunch of cry babies out there.

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 11:36:12 +0000

Fair point, Lyndon. Maybe folks did get a little hot under the collar yesterday but, certainly from my perspective, it wasn’t just about PR. It’s more about the way Google operate.

By: David Airey

David Airey — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 10:21:08 +0000

I wish I could blog in my sleep. It’d save so much time.

By: Caroline Middlebrook

Caroline Middlebrook — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 09:25:27 +0000

Lol :-)

By: Sebastian

Sebastian — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 07:35:29 +0000

Massacre … next step is mass suicides judging from the hysteria across the boards. I bet that’s just testing the waters with tiny chunks. Many more massacres to come …

By: Lyndoman

Lyndoman — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 07:10:37 +0000

@ Andy, and also my PR was untouched ;)

But that little green bar does whip seo bloggers into a mouth foaming frenzy.

By: Andy Beard

Andy Beard — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 04:18:24 +0000

You wouldn’t have said that about the backlinks or traffic ;)

That being said I am not sure it was worth the amount of time I spent on it today.

By: Jeff Quipp

Jeff Quipp — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 03:35:50 +0000

Excellent summarization! You captured it perfectly.

By: chipseo

chipseo — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 03:20:03 +0000

I am truley amazed at how many articles were posted today on that subject. I read several but yours might be the best so far :)

Scott

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By: Christine

Christine — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 01:10:47 +0000

Indeed.

By: inkode

inkode — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 23:28:56 +0000

Agreed.
Best post I’ve read all day.