Hey, look! After dropping to a Google Toolbar PageRank 4 earlier in the month when Google cracked down on paid links, Search Engine Journal has returned to a PageRank 7.
What do you know, seems that after adding a couple of tweaks to the linking structure and adding a couple of NoFollow’s, Google has returned us to our previous status.
Anybody wanna buy a link? Just kidding.
What are you seeing for our Google PageRank and did you see any other sites change last night?
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Jason on Nov 20, 2007 at 9:08 am
Congratulations on regaining your page rank, but why is getting your pagerank back good news?
Clement on Nov 20, 2007 at 9:10 am
So you are one of the guys that have thrown in the white towel!
SearchEnginesWeb on Nov 20, 2007 at 9:27 am
The problem still remains that there are many innocent blogs that were also dropped.
False Positives or just reckless algos, but since many of them are not high profile and are not monitored or visited by Google Engineers, they will not reclaim their PR :-(
Loren Baker, Editor on Nov 20, 2007 at 9:33 am
Why is getting your pagerank back good news?
Because despite what SEO’s know, many users judge site value via toolbar PR.
So you are one of the guys that have thrown in the white towel!
Not really, just compromised a bit and figured to give better value to editorial content.
DazzlinDonna on Nov 20, 2007 at 10:02 am
And yet, your 125×125’s are still dofollowed and two of them are even advertising text link brokers. How sensical is that? Not that I want you to be penalized, mind you. I’m just saying that the whole thing makes no freaking sense.
Razvan Antonescu on Nov 20, 2007 at 10:17 am
You were one of the first big blogs to drop nofollow on comments. It looks like Google has thought you well. Pavlovian way. Too bad
Loren Baker, Editor on Nov 20, 2007 at 11:34 am
Are you outing me Donna? LOL
DazzlinDonna on Nov 20, 2007 at 11:41 am
LOL, good one, Loren. :D
gabs on Nov 20, 2007 at 11:56 am
lol@ donna… hehehe…
Congrats on getting those pixels back..
Roundtable is still pr4 so we shall watch and see..
SeoTalk on Nov 20, 2007 at 12:18 pm
Congratulations (if PR matter to you!), your blog is awesome with PR or without it.
Melanie Phung on Nov 20, 2007 at 5:05 pm
“did you see any other sites change last night?”
Yep, high-ranking pages with lots of paid IBLs dropped like rocks acros the board.
Halfdeck on Nov 20, 2007 at 6:52 pm
Lol, Googlers are way too lenient :D
Prashant Kumar Pracheta on Nov 20, 2007 at 11:23 pm
congratres loren….
ya many sites got their page rank.
like statcounter.com
Shirley Kaiser on Nov 20, 2007 at 11:54 pm
Hi, Loren,
I’m glad to see your site’s PageRank back up. :-)
One of my sites was also slapped with the PageRank penalty - websitetips.com . It went from 7 to 4 for most pages, 8 to 5 for others. I noticed it around November 4th - but I don’t know when it actually dropped as I didn’t look at the PageRank very often at that point.
Today, though, I happily noticed it’s back to the higher PageRank status - 7 for the homepage and most other pages, 8 for at least one page (I haven’t checked them all - several hundred pages).
I unknowingly didn’t add the “nofollow” attribute to a FEW affiate links that I added to the site last August. That’s all I can figure why I got the penalty slap.
Prior to the drop, I didn’t know anything about Google requiring the “nofollow” for “paid links” - I only learned about this after I researched possibilities for why my site’s Toolbar PageRank dropped so drastically.
I made some other minor changes to the site just as an extra safety measure, submitted a Reconsideration Request Nov. 12, and sometime today I noticed the penalty removed and the Toolbar PageRank numbers back up.
As you said, “Because despite what SEO’s know, many users judge site value via toolbar PR.”
Yep, and that’s why I bother looking at the green bar now and then.
Thanks for the great write-ups on the paid links issue and everything else. Great site!
Gunjan Pandya on Nov 21, 2007 at 1:55 am
Cogratulation Loren..
Realizzazione siti on Nov 21, 2007 at 3:19 am
It’s nice to read this kind of post. What exactly did you adjusted on your site to get back your PR?
I think that it could be an interesting information to share with us.
Just because it could underline the big G behaviour.
Jaan Kanellis on Nov 21, 2007 at 8:52 am
Loren you don’t think that after making those tweaks google algorithmically put you back to PR 7 do you? I think it was more about you and other authors talking about it here that got Matt Cutt’s (and other Google engineers) attention, which gave your website the ability to be viewed differently than the 1000’s of others that are not as publicly well known as SEJ. Most of my websites didn’t change at all, TBPR went up in some cases. So no sour grapes here. I just am pointing out that I feel your SEJ TBPR creep back was a hand job.
Loren Baker, Editor on Nov 21, 2007 at 1:25 pm
Could be Jaan, or could be from requesting reconsideration from Google.
rob on Nov 22, 2007 at 3:53 pm
Did you do the ‘forgive me lord for I have sinned ‘ thing Loren?
Website Promotion Service on Nov 25, 2007 at 1:34 pm
Congrats. But sincerely I like you blog as it gives the latest and essential news… with or without the green bar.
But my stand on no follow tag still stands - It is unfair to advertisers.
Josh on Nov 25, 2007 at 2:00 pm
Congratulations (if PR matter to you!), your blog is cool ;)
Ken Savage on Dec 12, 2007 at 10:38 am
HEY PR2 to PR5. I’m back in business too.
DazzlinDonna on Dec 12, 2007 at 10:43 am
Ken, did you make changes? Did you file for reconsideration? If so, when? Just trying to keep track of these things. :)
Ken Savage on Dec 12, 2007 at 5:58 pm
No changes other than to drop my text-link-ads. I filled out a reconsideration request and 2 days later jumped back to my old PR5.
No more selling followable links for me I guess.
My traffic never changed and the adsense income never changed for the 3 weeks it was a PR2 site.
so who knows!?!?
N. Mandela on Jul 14, 2008 at 5:54 pm
page rank 7 is just great! good job!
yassine on Aug 1, 2008 at 5:50 pm
Les scientifiques de la Nasa annoncent détenir la preuve définitive de l’existence d’eau sur Mars à partir de nouvelles expériences menées sur des morceaux de glace trouvés en juin sur la planète rouge par la sonde américaine Phoenix Mars Lander.
“Il y a de l’eau”, affirme le chercheur William Boynton, de l’université de l’Arizona, dans un communiqué de l’agence spatiale américaine.
“Nous avions déjà la preuve de l’existence de cette glace d’eau grâce aux observations de Mars Odyssey et de Phoenix en juin, mais c’est la première fois que de l’eau en provenance de Mars est touchée et goûtée” par des instruments scientifiques, a ajouté le chercheur de la Nasa.
Jeudi, l’agence spatiale a également prolongé de cinq semaines la mission de Phoenix Mars Lander en expliquant qu’au-delà de la recherche d’eau, elle explorerait la possibilité de la planète d’accueillir la vie.
“Nous allons prolonger cette mission jusqu’au 30 septembre”, a annoncé Michael Meyer, scientifique de haut vol du programme d’exploration de la Nasa concernant Mars, lors d’une conférence de presse télévisée.
Cette prolongation coûtera deux millions de dollars supplémentaires à la Nasa, pour un budget totalisant déjà 420 millions de dollars.
Phoenix s’était posé le 25 mai sur Mars pour une mission initiale de trois mois. La sonde est chargée d’analyser la glace située à un mètre sous la surface de la planète.
Boynton a indiqué que l’existence d’eau a été identifiée de manière catégorique grâce un échantillon prélevé par le bras robotique de la sonde et qui a été analysé mercredi par des instruments qui ont détecté des vapeurs dégagées par la chaleur.
“Nous espérons pouvoir répondre à la question de savoir s’il existe une zone habitable sur Mars. Il appartiendra aux missions à venir de découvrir si cet environnement peut abriter quelque chose”, a précisé Peter Smith, enquêteur du projet Phoenix, lors d’une conférence de presse.
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