Comments on: Sell Links, Drop PageRank

By: Johan Firdaus

Johan Firdaus — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:39:55 +0000

Just a few day ago, my page rank drop from 3 to 2, i dont know that selling link could make your pagerank drop

Well. its not it really matter anymore coz i dont really pursuing pagerank, i just blog for fun, if people came and read it good, but if no one read it, its still ok

doesn’t matter anyway

Thanks for the info anyway

By: Irene

Irene — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 18:17:31 +0000

My blog history.
First time go to 0, next to 1 then go to 3
Recent updated X pagerank
Suck !

By: canon g9

canon g9 — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 21:50:57 +0000

from online revenues. It’s easy to say ‘don’t depend on Google’ but there are so many websites that depend on the big G for traffic.

I guess I’m lucky enough because I’m too small and don’t get much traffic from Google. I make money from having multiple small websites.

By: canon g9

canon g9 — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 21:45:03 +0000

thank for interesting information

By: Khayte

Khayte — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 07:52:20 +0000

Gawd, mine had gone to N/A too, I hate the fact that they have to reduce our PR’s just because we monetize our blogs. What’s the catch anyway? They do the same thing, too I guess on their ‘other’ websites perhaps. Damnn, it makes me go all crazy. –,

By: Andrew Ooi

Andrew Ooi — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 14:58:13 +0000

Khairi, that’s the scariest thought of all for all bloggers making a living from online revenues. It’s easy to say ‘don’t depend on Google’ but there are so many websites that depend on the big G for traffic.

I guess I’m lucky enough because I’m too small and don’t get much traffic from Google. I make money from having multiple small websites.

By: LcF

LcF — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 11:19:35 +0000

@Khairy: that’s sad case. paid links and paid posts are the easy ways to make money online but search engines dislike them.

If a site is depends on search engine traffic, better stay away from the paid links/posts.

Wish you luck, Khairy!

By: Khairy

Khairy — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 06:30:59 +0000

you guys are lucky to lose some pagerank, but still getting traffic from google.

3 of my websites are gone for good ! no more traffic from google, instantly after the pagerank update. 3 of them use to have PR6,5,4 but now all makan telur (zero). FYI, i manage to sell 28 paid links and write paid post like crazy to earn my living full time from internet, and now just because somebody go and report this activity to google (highly suspected), all my websites get banned !

and now i can’t barely survive with my current traffic, i’m stuck !

seriously, better play by the rules … don’t end up like my situation .. this really caught me red handed.

it’s sad that i need to look for a day job, still got mouth to feed ….

By: Adam

Adam — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 21:24:03 +0000

2 of my best earnign blogs dropped by a point each but this was more or less offset by the PR climb on the rest of my blogs. My oldest blog is now PR 5 and my earnings did jump up.

By: Irene

Irene — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 07:17:27 +0000

I’m so lucky… My blogs maintained at PR3 and PR2, the rest from N/A to PR2 and another still stuck at N/A. None of them drop. Actually one of them did drop from PR2 to PR1 but check back few days later, it got back to PR2. I’m doing paid posts and sell links for all of them except one I recently started which originally has a PR3 Phew.. lucky lucky but I’ll be taking measures to no-follow those paid post links that are more than 6 months old soon, provided if I’m in the mood to do it. Losing PR really a big ego hahaha…

By: Zaiful Zin

Zaiful Zin — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 05:24:36 +0000

I dont care about PR anymore even though MY PR rank up from 2 to 3 and its nothing big effect to my traffic.Ive seem many niche blog out there at PR0 still can rank higher in SERP. For me the more important is how much and fast google will index my site especially after finished updated my blog and how much traffic i can generate from that.

Just FYI, since Ive join 3 waylinks by jonathan legger(you can view my post for that) and all of site from 3waylink network seems doesnt effect by new google PR updates. From their forum, all has reported that their site gained new higher PR then previous.

What im thinking right now is either its possible for us to build 3 waylink link building manually without cost a single penny?

p/s Note if you visit my post about 3 waylink the analysis done only for google malaysia(google.com.my) and i will update how about my position in google.com

By: aron wong

aron wong — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 22:53:10 +0000

hello!! like ur blog very much!! n just wanna thank u for sharing alot of good ideas!! enjoy ur weekend!! n wish ur page rank will up soon! cheers!!! anyway i am new to this blogging world!! still along long way to go…. heheeh

By: weirdoux

weirdoux — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 12:22:36 +0000

liew… you’ve got me…! wakakaka…

By: Kidino

Kidino — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 05:34:55 +0000

Just adding to the list. When you sell text links, more PR means more money. Maybe Google don’t want you to take advantage of that.

Mine too … dropped from PR4 to PR3

But I don’t care much for PR.

By: Mahesh Chawla

Mahesh Chawla — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 03:58:14 +0000

It seems google is adopting forceful loyality programme. Those who are going out or looking for new ways of revenue are being penalised. So now there are going to be hard options, either to worry about the PR or to continue with text link ads resulting in cash. Some who are earning well with the text link ads will not bother about it much.

By: LcF

LcF — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 20:06:14 +0000

@BytesWired: although I have regular readers but the main traffic is still from search engines.

@Abdul Rahman: how well a site ranked is depends on the important of the page (PR) and the relevant of content. Therefore, a site with relevant content might get higher rank than high PR sites in search engine results.

@CLF: low PR means Google think your site is Less Important, thus your site might get lower rank in search engine results.

@weirdoux: Zeo never lost his PR7. Talked to Google?! you are kidding, right?

@iCalvyn: PageRank has nothing to do with “traffic”. It is about links.

@Edward Khoo: paid link buyers want PR score, not traffic. Text link does not bring much traffic, anyway.

By: Edward Khoo

Edward Khoo — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 17:56:56 +0000

Well, if I were you then I will keep the text links because your blog has a lot of loyal readers & I am sure advertisers will buy links from you based on how much traffic you get insted of PR

By: Ainuddin

Ainuddin — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 15:42:23 +0000

BytesWired is right.

Many of my sites are PR0 but getting traffic (+5,000) from various sources since already established for many years.

By: iCalvyn

iCalvyn — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 12:59:35 +0000

my self from PR1 to PR3, i think is great, but after see alot of blog from 0 to 3… it make no much different to me…

1 thing weired, i have a URL very less traffic, can said no some time, and i did not build back link, just few… but now from PR0 to PR2… seen like google simply give PR…

By: MYBlog

MYBlog — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 12:33:08 +0000

My blog got PR2 now from 0