Google Strikes

Sunday, April 13. 2008

I have read and been told how those with PR's of 1+ and had paid blogs how Google slapped them and their PR was lowered. Many with the paid blogs have felt that they were singled out. Some protesters of Google say no this is not true. I always believed that they did slap those that got paid but who really knows?

Now, I have a blog that was PR 2. Note I am saying HAD. I did really nothing on this site for months, and I mean months but for some reason it had the PR by Google. I decided to make a little spare bling with it. After a little over 2 weeks of doing paid posts Google spanked the site. Now it is a raging 0.

OK. A blog that is not worked on for months with no new posts is a PR 2? What changed? Paid posts is what changed. I am not surprised in the least. I knew this would happen. Not as soon but never the less it has happened.

So the next person that tells me that Google does not slap paid posters can bite the big one

Posted by Pandora at 07:54 | Comments (3) | Trackbacks (0)

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I know exactly what you're saying. My daughter had a blog that she had done exactly NOTHING with in months. Google gave it a PR3. She did exactly ONE paid post and her pr dropped to zero - within 24 hours!

That was what prompted me to remove the google AdSense from my sidebar and replace it with this image (feel free to use it):

http://otherendoftheinter.net/media/NEGATE.gif

#1 Thriell (Homepage) on 2008-04-13 11:26 (Reply)

Paid post is fine. What Google doesn't like are the nofollow links in the content of the post.

Anyway, SocialSpark is also a paid post service and it's currently in Alpha testing. What makes SS different is that all links will be nofollow which complies with Google. So, doing paid post with SS will not get your blog spanked by Google but we'll just have to wait for it though.

#2 Melo (Homepage) on 2008-04-13 15:35 (Reply)

Welcome to the 'I got spanked by Google' club

#3 Sandra (Homepage) on 2008-04-13 20:41 (Reply)

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