Comments on: Google Changes Algorithm, Site Networks Suffer

By: James Creare

James Creare — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 14:30:49 +0000

Despite the recent algorithm change on Google, I noticed that my rankings didn't drop for anything.

My companies' site was listed in several paid directories, which made up most of our PR and strength in Google.

Since the last major Pagerank Harvest, Our rankings haven't dropped at all, and neither had our Pageranks.

One of our clients had only links from paid directories, then after the PR Harvest, about 80% of their incoming links lost their PR. As a result we expected rankings to drop, but they didn't.

I think that the visible Pagerank is just a deterrent to try and stop people selling links. If pages have no visible pagerank, people won't want to buy links from that page.

Don't know what you guys think about this?

By: Peterborough Web Design

Peterborough Web Design — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 22:08:52 +0000

PR is a waste of time of course, the all important thing is to rank highly in the SERPS as this is what earns the money. But, the thing is we all have an element of vanity (admit it) and this is what keeps us on our toes every 3 months!!

By: Web Design Fort Myers

Web Design Fort Myers — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 18:36:27 +0000

Yeah, I agree. Worrying about PageRank is a real waste of time if it is taking away from your actual site enhancement and SERP's.

If you got hit by having your links on all of the paid link directories, then you are spending too much time on this aspect of SEM.

Build your site traffic and importance with community building with relevant links.

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 17:39:57 +0000

Cross linking AND paid linkage. The directory industry (which i might add is now completely over saturated) has experienced a huge devaluation by Google. I still stick with the fact that people worry too much about PageRank and not enough about SERPs!

By: Akanga Pro

Akanga Pro — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 21:41:45 +0000

Hmmmmm. That explain a LOT of things… But was a matter of time. Google team is investing a lot of effort to really bring relevant sites in every search.

By: Mary Stanton

Mary Stanton — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 20:25:01 +0000

Nice roundup plus that’s an interesting comment / observation about the frequency of updates / indexing – update cycle.

By: Web Design Blogger

Web Design Blogger — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 12:35:05 +0000

My pr has also risen – I think its just pot luck as to how sites perform nowadays, I honestly believe updating a page everyday (blog) does not help ratings as much as allowing google to index that pages content for a few months then updating – but thats out to the jury?

By: Andre

Andre — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 16:19:44 +0000

Oh come on guys. I think “we” are all taking the whole PR bs a bit too serious. What matters most to us webmasters? Yes, traffic!

By: justin

justin — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 18:44:31 +0000

luckily for me, since my best work is in flash, i remain completely unaffected because you cannot find my sites via google regardless of alogrithm. moral of the story, FLASH is the wave of the future.

sarcastically yours, justin

By: Nick

Nick — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 22:45:15 +0000

This is such a hard issue to sort out. Some of what this will do is knock pages down the list that aren’t relevant, and some that it will negatively impact shouldn’t be. Hopefully they will keep trying to serve up the best results in their search engine, even though it causes some big headaches for some of us.