Though Google Page Rank doesn’t carry much importance to decide your rank on search engines for particular keyword, I think we have solid evidence to suspect if this is false.
Matt Cutts once said in his article –
Reputable sites that sell links won’t have their search engine rankings or PageRank penalized–a search for [daily cal] would still return dailycal.org. However, link-selling sites can lose their ability to give reputation (e.g. PageRank and anchortext).
Now that reputed sites like Problogger.net, Copyblogger etc have already lost their PR, as a result of penalization for selling links(which some of them haven’t), Isn’t this a case of double talking Google does?
On one side Matt says – Reputed sites won’t have their Page Rank/SERP ranks degraded for selling links.
One part of it has already been proved wrong. While, many authoritative sites have lost their PR charm already, what’s next? SERPs and Organic Traffic ?
Am I being too skeptical about it or do you see anything?
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Well only time will tell, everything is speculative at this point. But I doubt that Google will rest at just penalizing the page ranks, they may go beyond that too.
But only time will tell, I guess Google owns a big time explanation at what they are trying to do, atleast Matt does he usually jumps in with his views all the time about SE so he should make some views on this.
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If you think of it from Google perspective, cutting traffic to sites won’t help because most of these sites have quality content. People come to Google searching for some content or the other, and Google’s job is to provide them with the content they want.
For instance, when I pass a search qwery for Mani Karthik, I expect Google to show me your blog. If you happen to be selling links, I don’t care… I just want your blog!
Pulling down sites just because they sell links doesn’t make any sense at all!
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Thilak, you are right and that’s the whole irony here.
Google probably knew that popular bloggers are a good target. They know that the blogs have great content and they also knew that some of them stopped selling links since their warning.
But it’s interesting to see that Google did opposite to what Matt said. He said, reputed sites will not lose page rank or serp ranks.But they did.
Now that they lost page rank, my guess is that the SERP ranks too will be lost.
We shall wait and see how bad it’s going to be if at all it’s gonna happen.
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Why bother making assumptions when you are just speculating like everyone else? PageRank carries no weight or relevance to your rankings. It’s just a magical little green bar that people, especially SEO’s and webmasters are drawn to like a Moth to a light outside.
This is how people get the wrong idea about what’s real and what’s not, and how rumors quickly start becoming “facts”, because no one really knows for sure, so they just assume.
Sorry to go off on you like this, but I just hate seeing bloggers doing this sorta nonsense and then having readers agree because they are also naive about the topic.
…and please stop listening to what Google says. They don’t even follow their own guidelines.
Fake PageRank’s last blog post..TrustRank Service Updates & The Recent PageRank & SEO Effects By Google
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