I have been receiving emails and comments today about yet another PageRank downturn for multiple sites. Andrew Ooi has compiled a short list of Malaysian sites, many were as much as a PR5 previously, and currently show a PageRank of zero (a white bar) Examples include: Colleen's Simple Kind of Life and 5xmom. The numbers seem to be stable across multiple data … [Read more...]
Real or Fake Pagerank Update in Progress (Round 3)
Courtney stopped by to let me know about what appears to be a real PageRank update that is in progress if there can ever be a real update again. Many of the blogs highlighted in the update just a couple of days ago seem to have reverted to their previous position. Now for anyone who might be thinking otherwise, there are still some obvious penalties in place for a few … [Read more...]
Digg Favorites Slapped By Google
For a company such as Google with a stock price based extensively on anticipated growth and public sentiment, it doesn’t take a huge swing in goodwill to have a dramatic effect on valuation. Google has just slapped their biggest fans. After the very controversial hit many sites took just 2 weeks ago for various degrees of selling PageRank or linking to clients, you might … [Read more...]
Penalty Confirmed: But I Don’t Sell Pagerank
Danny Sullivan has managed to get some feedback from someone at Google confirmed visible PageRank penalties are being applied, as much as a -2 on what is displayed on the Google Toolbar. This post was my follow on from my post yesterday: Dancing With The Gevil: Defamed By Google? Fair enough, for those people who have been caught selling links primarily for boosting … [Read more...]
Sphinn Support – Antisocial (SEO Friendly Sociable) WordPress Plugin
I have just added support for Sphinn to my hacked version of the popular Sociable plugin. For those unfamiliar with Antisocial, these are the differences All links have nofollow added – this might sound strange coming from someone who strongly supports the removal of nofollow from comments, but there is no logical purpose having a followable link to a social bookmark … [Read more...]