Google has done it again!! They are messing with Pagerank. They have hit some sites really hard, but gave pagerank back to the big name people.
So WHO is GOOGLE hurting now? They are really killing the little people. Probloggers of the world who get heard and get links from the pagerank screw up have now received their pagerank back and kept all the publicity form the last 2 days. YET all the little people who didn’t get press, are screwed with lower pagerank.
I got hit this time, my traffic is still where it was, but this will affect earnings over time. Sites have every right to sell links. I make a great living off of this stuff, and unfortunately ad brokers use pagerank… little guys can’t change this. Only the big guys can, and they won’t because google played into their hands.
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MoreMerchant pagerank dropped to 3
sad:(
Well Google seems to punish hard work, and the only ones that should make money are Google or big name bloggers.
I wouldn’t worry about it too much, my blog is showing up as a 4 in my toolbar so I think its messed up. It’s nowhere near as quality as more merchant.
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