Well, I know you guys normally notice this before I do, but I was filtering through the spam here on OMB with FireFox when I noticed the SearchStatus bar was reporting we’re back up to a PR7. It’s not quite the PR8 we used to know and love, but it’s better than the downright insulting PR4 we suffered with for a couple of weeks.
Anyhoo, now my previous rant seems a little silly. But I do wonder if someone saw it and corrected things (mostly) as a result? It’s impossible to know what to do to appease the Google Gods. I’ll just keep sending random offerings of frankincense and myrrh.
Congrats :D this blog really deserves it!
I’ve heard some rumors over the last view days that most others that got hit with this was because they were using text link ads (TLA). Though I’ve never seen this on your site, but maybe you somehow got onto “the list”
Either way, good to know all is well..PR 10 all the way !
Good thing they corrected their mistake.
Well deserved.
Kim:)
LOL!!! I love it!
That’s totally awesome, that you regained some ground – as it should be!
I love SearchStatus.. not sure how I feel about the recent “Compete” addon, but it’s nice seeing the Alexa rank and pagerank together.
Glad you’re back bud! My sites are still the same, but I guess that’ll all pan out eventually.
I wonder if anything’s been officially confirmed? I’d like to know what is “legit” and what isn’t. I hate gray areas =(
Frankincense and myrrh, huh? I’ll try that. My former PR5 blog has 7 years worth of posts; I’ve had the domain for 6 years. I dropped to a PR2. That just isn’t right.
There’s a lot of frankincense and myth around that’s for sure. I almost think I understand PageRank (get links from high PR sites) but search engine rank is more perplexing to me. I have one site that has been dead for several years and still keeps its PR6 and still ranks number one ahead of Adobe for a pair of Adobe products, go figure. Another site got a PR5 from almost day one and over 18 months it’s had great search engine ranks (1000 visitors per day from Google) and now it bounces around well out of the top 10 or 20 listings for some long search terms, in some case out of the top 400!!
I then get advise to stick my site into what looks like modern day link farms (networks of duplicated blogs, directories, etc), they say “it works” but I say “for how long?”.
Continue getting quality links, John!
Hmmmm. How much does Frankincense and myrrh cost a pound? I wonder if we can deduct such gifts as advertising expense? I’m pretty new at all of this and don’t want the IRS to penalize me like the search engines are prone to do!
I have a (newbie) question.
The OP, BradDet mentioned that sites that use text link ads were targeted. I’m not sure what’s meant by that. Can you please give me an example of a text link ad that would be penalized?
Congrats John
This site could be a pr 0 and I’d still check it out :)
Welcome back to the wonderful world of PR7 … I have to admit I took some guilty pleasure in temporarily having higher PR ;)