King Google has spoken – Your site is not worthy o’ disloyal subjects.

Posted on 24. Oct, 2007 by Chad in Online Advertising

Google is at it once again.  Pissing off its subjects with the latest PR shakeup, dropping the rankings of almost everyone including those who choose not to bow down to the king and surprisingly even those who do.
OK, so what is a Google PR?  PR stands for Page Rank and basically it is Google acting like the king of the da internet, rating all sites on a scale of 1 to 10, and of course putting itself right up there at a 10.   And in essence making everyone else clamour and obey the king doing everything they can to appease him hoping that just maybe he will lift up your rating to a coveted 8 or 9.
 Should you care? Unfortunately it still holds some clout.  Certain people whether buying ads or even buying your site will often use your Google page rank as a meter of its success.  Today’s shuffle will hopefully wake up a few people that put too much importance on this and see it for what it really is.   Google’s way to influence and controls its subjects.  
Some theories on why sites PR might be penalized:
-   The main theory, is if you purchase text links or sell text links
-   A blog roll could cause too many similar circle of friend links
-   NOT using Google Adsense on your site
-   Even exchanging un-paid links to your site.
Problogger is down to a PR 4 which is way too low for his site. (Mines a 4 for crying out loud
DailyBlogTips has a list of some of the big blogs that have dropped. 

AndyBeard has put together a list as well.
Stumble Upon is my single highest source of traffic and surpassed Google search listings, and I’m guessing a lot of other blogs are finding that too.
Let go of your fear of the King and set your blog free…
    

Tags: adsense, google PR, SEO