Comments on: Google Rankings in Danger – Dump Visible PR

By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 12:45:19 +0000

It’s very unlikely that what you did caused any penalty, because otherwise people would post about their competitors like that and hurt them.

More than likely, you were just seeing different Google datacenter results and your brand-new blog just isn’t ranking well on them all yet.

Yep, Wordpress is SEO magic if done right!

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 01:41:22 +0000

I recently started a second blog for my real estate business mainly for listings. It is wordpress and new. A google search for my name has the new wordpress post on the first page and the google owned Blogger post nowhere around. It seems odd that blogger is not more efficient for obvious reasons. This proved to me how fast Wordpress is rated on google.

As far as the penalty, on a fun blog I have I was #1 for a search result for a specific pop culture phrase. Last Friday I dropped to #2 and then completely off the search on Saturday. Monday I was back to #1. I wonder if I was penalized because I had posted similar comments on a bunch pop culture sites. Would that look like paid advertising or that the comments were very similar it discounted them? Either way I am back.

By: Scott

Scott — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 12:09:39 +0000

The PR bar has always reflected at least 3 month old data the day it updates anyway, but maybe that does have something to do with it.

Not having it current does make ranking a little harder, because any calculation I make today of the value of a link is based on PR from February 2007.

However, I don’t really think Google wants to make things “harder” or they wouldn’t keep refining Webmaster Tools… They just want to stop us from being able to buy our way to the top unless we’re using Adwords.

By: I. E.

I. E. — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 21:33:34 +0000

Maybe this is just a way for Google to make it harder to figure out the Google algorithm. The longer it takes between doing something to improve PR and the time you get feedback on that bar, the harder it will be to figure out what you did right or wrong.

By: Scott Hendison

Scott Hendison — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 14:17:00 +0000

Yes, if I were in charge at Google, I would likely get rid of the “price sticker” on everybody’s website and pretty much end the sale of PR.

However, from a personal standpoint as an SEO, I do not want to see the green bar go away because it is a key factor in allowing us to intelligently research the competitions backlinks.

By: Gary Pool

Gary Pool — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 01:27:10 +0000

Good call Scott.

Where is the petition? I’ll sign it!

Do you think we as internet users/professionals can knock Google off it’s high horse?