Comments on: So What Have I Done Wrong Now Google?

By: Christoph C. Cemper the Marketing Fan

Christoph C. Cemper the Marketing Fan — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:43:04 +0000

Hey Andy!

I was just wondering, why you care at all about the green bar.

Matt Cutts has recently confirmed in PUBLIC at the SMX in Seattle that they DO return crappy, random or no data at all to all those pagerank obsessed.

One possible issue you might have had was that just one of the PR scrapers like oyoy once again got the “crap PR data”-flag at Googleplex

cheers,christoph

By: O Todo Poderoso Google « DissonÃ¢ncia Cognitiva

O Todo Poderoso Google « DissonÃ¢ncia Cognitiva — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:19:40 +0000

[...] So What Have I Done Wrong Now Google? de Andy Beard onde o autor procura explicaÃ§Ãµes para as constantes alteraÃ§Ãµes ao Page Rank do seu blog. Aproveitando a estadia, aproveitem para dar uma olhada aos “Related Posts” onde poderÃ£o encontrar outros artigos acerca do mesmo tema. Aproveito para recomendar mais este: Penalty Confirmed – But I Don’t Sell PageRank [...]

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Sunday Link Lovin’ | make money blogging — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 14:04:27 +0000

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By: Alize Cornet

Alize Cornet — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 08:10:24 +0000

I maintain a WTA tennis player fan blog with AdSense only, to help my visitors I have links to recources that may be them of help. If I link to the WTA Tennis Official website, how does Google know it is not an advertisement!? Fan blog should cover all spheres of Tennis, as blog is not a portal, it usually means external link to valuable resources for visitors, still it seems safer not to put external links at all!?

By: PRadise Lost

PRadise Lost — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 02:46:36 +0000

[...] site was PR5 a few days ago and due to the recent google pagerank update it is now PR3. This Andy Beard’s post about his blog’s PR fluctuations has prompted me to write my own opinion on the subject of [...]

By: Welcome Back Mr. Google | The Translator World

Welcome Back Mr. Google | The Translator World — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 15:10:35 +0000

[...] got their PR back and some still sunk below their average. One of them is Andy Beard post entitled â€œSo What Have I Done Wrong Now Google?â€ In that post he told that this restoration is just a â€œGoogle Probationâ€ and there’s still [...]

By: cameron

cameron — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 19:49:08 +0000

The biggest problem is the mystery. I can certainly understand why this is so frustrating. I recently ‘undid’ everything I did in previous weeks after incurring a penalty. Eventually my site came back but, to this day, I don’t know what I did wrong.

By: Stephane Grenier

Stephane Grenier — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 05:31:27 +0000

What I don’t understand is how larger, mainstream, companies are allowed to advertise without a penalty.

Although I haven’t checked to confirm, what about companies like CNN.com, Fortune magazine, Time Magazine, New York Times, etc. They don’t seem to be penalized. Maybe they implement nofollow, but I’m sure not all large media companies with paid advertising don’t add nofollow to their links.

It seems to be more targeted at blogs and bloggers, or is it just me who’s thinking this?

By: Andy Beard

Andy Beard — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 11:01:14 +0000

Most likely the value of the links to your site have decreased, but hard to tell if you don’t link to the personal site that has the problems.
You opted to link to an MFA site – pretty thin on information… thus the link got deleted.

Are you really sure you found every old review?
Did you check your disclosure policy and advertising sales page regarding your policy on links?

By: job

job — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 10:50:45 +0000

I still cant figure out why my PR drop from 4 to 1. What did i do wrong. I have blocked all the paid review but still things just the same. Should have a guide on this.