Google Page Rank Update – TLA Damage Not Permanent
I've held this post as a draft for a couple days because I didn't want to announce the page rank update too early, but the flucutations between page ranks seem to have steadied out finally so I think it's safe to announce it now. I've seen page rank updates accross all of my websites and the flucuations have just been back and forth between the old rank and the new rank, so even if it's not done fluctuating I believe it's safe to say the new ranks I've seen will stick around.
The good news is that with this update my blog's page rank moved up from a PR2 to a PR4 which will mean I should be able to sell links on this blog easily after I finish implementing the OIOpublisher text link code. Although there are many people that have tried to discredit the value of Page Rank because of Google's recent adjustments to high profile bloggers that sell links and sponsored reviews, it's important not to lose sight of the value of Page Rank. Some ad networks even require it in your application so having a higher page rank will help to improve your chances of getting in. Either way, I will sell links off this blog, but I haven't decided if I'll require the nofollow attribute or not.
In addition to my blog, several of my other websites improved their page ranks as well. In fact when I wrote about how Text Link Ads was finished back in March I mentioned that one of my forums, Xbox Live Arcade was hit and suffered a PR4 drop to PR0. At the time I believed this was due to the fact that I was running TLA code on the site and after seeing this month's page rank update it looks like I'm right. The site has since gone up to a PR2 and I expect it will make a full recovery when the next page rank update occurs. So it's nice to see that there hasn't been any permanent damage. In fact, this just helps to prove that running TLA on your websites is a big risk and why I recommend that you only use it on websites that you don't care lose their page rank.
How did your websites fare with this latest page rank update? Do you agree with my assessment of TLA?
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I think that people should start focusing more on what they want and stop caring as much about google and their pagerank, unless google is a major source of your traffic and it’s pagerank is helping you in any way.
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I’ve been requiring nofollow on ads at my site just to be on the safe side – I got hit too hard on a previous site to risk selling links without nofollow.
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Not seen no change in myself. Glad your site has recovered Chris.
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No change on my blog. I’m still a proud “0″!
Well, at least I’m acknowledged in the system!
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Yah, I may just roll the dice and sell links without nofollow, but I’m sure that Google has just found an easy way to detect sites using the Text Link Ads code, whereas I think it’s harder for them to detect code from OIO Publisher.
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Do you do any sort of paid posting/reviews Chris, if so do you ahve a disclaimer on your site?
If not do you think this can hurt PR?
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I have had a blog up since Feb this year so think it has gone through 2 updates. Might have just missed the first one though. Before the update it was N/A and now it is 0. Is this any idication of improvement?
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I went from 2-3, pretty cool. I’m a little surprised that you’re “deciding” on whether to go no or do follow.
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Seems like a minor PR update. Not very much action one way or the other.
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it’s ironic that using text link ads damages your page rank but selling links but not running the tla code is okay –
i run the tla code on one site now and my homepage rank has gone from 6 to 3 – and the only reason i can see is the tla code – but if someone approached me and paid me to add a text link within one of my content items google wouldn’t know
it sort of sucks that be doing it in the open is damagin but doing it so google doesn’t know is okay …
its a thin line and if you rely on page rnak then you simply can’t run tla for that long – but if you dont mind about page rank – then run them … but you can only run them for a short period of time because when your rank is effected then nobody wants to buy the text links …
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