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Posted on Oct 25, 2007 - 12:48am by John P. in Google Tools, Site Updates, Thoughts, Wordpress
You know, I don’t think I could be any more disappointed in Google than I am today.
And that is a shame because I’m normally a big fan. I mean, just look… I’ve got an entire category dedicated to Google Tools with 50 posts in it! But the problem is, today Google decided to penalize a whole boatload of sites for some reason or another, and in the process they dropped OMB from a PR7 to PR5. And just in the last few weeks it had already moved from a PR8 to PR7.
I just don’t understand this at all. I know Matt Cutts, and have spoken with him and we’ve e-mailed one another several times on the topic of Google PageRank, and even I just have no idea why in the hell this happened.
Now, a whole slew of other notable blogs and sites were just de-ranked severely, but most of those were done this way because they were selling links without the “rel=’nofollow’” attribute on them. HOWEVER, Matt and I spoke about the ads that I’ve sold on my homepage and he knows that they have that attribute assigned to them! So I should not be penalized for that.
So, what other reason could there possibly be for such a magnitude of PageRank demotion in one fell swoop? From a PR8 to PR5 in just a few weeks!?! And for doing absolutely nothing! I’ve used the Bad Link Neighborhood checker tool to see if somehow I linked to something that hurt me. Nope. I’ve NEVER done anything blackhat SEO to warrant this. Heck, I even took great care with my monthly contests to never ask for any specific linking or anything like that. Hell you don’t even have to link to win! And on top of everything else, I donate all the money I earn from this blog to charity! So there is just no economic incentive for me to cheat - and everyone knows this.
Now, if there is a lesson to be learned here, it is that you can NEVER, NEVER, NEVER trust Google. I’ve been silent for far too long on this matter, but they are demanding that we all bastardize our Web sites with this non-standard attribute “rel=nofollow” which has failed to gain traction with the other search engines and failed to make it’s way into the Web standards for years. OK, fine. Google asks that we label text links with “rel=nofollow” and then we do but they still penalize us!
Mark my words. If this can happen here on One Man’s Blog, it can happen to your site as well! And absolutely no one at Google gives a shit whatsoever. I really mean that 100%. Although I think Matt is a nice guy, I do not believe that he’ll even blink an eye about dropping this site’s PR even though he knows first hand that I’ve instituted nofollow at his personal request.
And I know with absolute certainty that the guys working over in the abuse group at Google don’t give a shit either because my conversations with them have been unbelievable. They just don’t care. They talk to me as if I’m a freaking child. No respect whatsoever.
And why should they? Google rules the Internet. It doesn’t matter that they create massive negativity with popular sites like mine. They are to the Internet what Microsoft is to software. Ubiquitous. So, as far as the Google search quality team is concerned, I take their message as a giant “F- You!”
Oh, and let’s assume for a moment that this drop is independent of my legal text link advertisers (thanks guys!). Well, what is it for? I’ve logged into the Webmaster Tools area, and there isn’t any indicator as to why the penalty has been instituted. So how would I be expected to fix whatever the heck they think I’m doing wrong? And if they really did give a crap, wouldn’t they want me to fix it so that I could go back to the “natural” rank my site should have? I mean all they have to do is put a notification into the Webmaster Tools area and I (and I’m sure everyone else) would take care of it!
So Thanks Google! Are you done with me yet? ‘Cause yeah, it’s sore.
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I see PR4 for your site now…
in my firefox PR bar…
Ha, that’s funny, you block any mildly critical comments!
No, actually you’ll find many critical comments all over my blog. But don’t forget, it is MY blog. I delete the ones that take a posture of personal attack.
So, you can feel free to criticize any concept I put forth, but don’t expect to come here and call me names and expect your comment to stand. If you came into my home and did that I would kick your ass and throw you out the door.
Even in disagreement there is such a thing as common courtesy.
John
Now i have seen PR4 for your blog , If you got your links from quality sites then in next update you get your pr back
>>don’t expect to come here and call me names and expect your comment to stand. If you came into my home and did that I would kick your ass and throw you out the door.
A tough guy with a keyboard, neat-o. Calling a rant “babyish” for complaining google should change their whole system to please you is too strong for a tough guy?
Clearly you are one of those people who need everything spelled out for you. So, for the amusement of everyone else here I’ll oblige you this once, then I’m done with you. I only debate with real people, not anonymous pseudonyms.
So, in the future if you want to be welcome here or on other blogs try adding real value. Otherwise expect to be deleted. Your choice.
John
Still Some of the datacenters showing PR4 for your blog,
Also if the websites links to you get a demotion in page rank then automatically the page rank of your site also decreases, as i try to find i mostly see PR0 pages that links to you
I enjoyed reading the banter between you and “ziggy.”
It’s rather strange that you have a PageRank of 4 and I have one of 3 because I’m pretty sure that your site is far more popular than mine!
I am seeing a PR4 too in SEOQuake for Firefox. I think it is crazy that you have done everything you possibly can and spoke to Matt Cutts and they still dropped your PR. I feel your frustration though. My site went from a PR4 -> P1 and we have never bought or sold links or put our link on unrelated sites. I have no clue why. I thought it may have had something to do with being on blogrolls (sitewide links, maybe google thought I paid for them). Who knows?
Maybe they will manually rerank your site since it is such a popular blog. I noticed alot of blogs that got hit are now coming back in rank, but not my site.
PS - I did just notice your top commentator plugin does not have no-follow to the links, maybe that might have something to do with it. It is similar to blogroll links without a nofollow.
>>add at least something to the conversation
It added the needed perspective that you are crying far too loudly and righteously with the bad assumption that just because your rating was lowered then google was doing something terribly wrong, and especially that one guy at google should know better than to allow your score to change just because you’ve talked to him before.
>>anonymously
I somehow doubt you’ve contacted every other commenter personally to verify that they are who they “say” they are.
>>it was one of fewer than 20 non-spam comments ever deleted from this blog
Then maybe that indicates being a bit too sensitive here, if you saw reason to delete a description of a post as “babyish.” It’s not as though it was offensive or vulgar. But it’s your show, just thought it strange to see on a popular blog.
Anyway, I do enjoy many of your posts, just not this one
Google’s rating system suits google, and not the google front men, the coders, but the marketdroids hiding in the background. So, no google adwords is obviously going to put you behind the eight ball. Google’s temporary dominance of search will only last as long, as people recognise it and it all starts with you, just like every one else, spread your search choices, and add in information about other search engines, and be open about your criticism’s, your the customer complain as loudly and as often as you want too. As for the google trolls, every new google worker gets share options in order to turn them into one eyed supporters of google motivated by greed. Remember that it is really cool to work at google, earn twenty less for working 20 percent more but get free meals, and instead of a percentage for patentable ideas you get a free holiday (free peanuts for the monkeys and they don’t realise how much extra profit google is sucking out of them). So when you contact google to complain about their perfect company sic. how do you expect you will be treated, by the typical marketing tactic, isolate you, you are the only one complaining, everybody else is right and you are wrong (of course with the net you find out everybody else actually agrees with you).