Comments on: Toolbar Hysteria – It Isn’t Really a Penalty

By: fucc

fucc — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 06:46:15 +0000

since i’ve reached 0 with pagerank, i’m not gaining a penny from links (no customers!). And from yersterday I’ve also seen a great decrease in visitors from google search engine. I fear that pr is related to the search engine position….

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By: Darren McLaughlin

Darren McLaughlin — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 18:51:27 +0000

Somehow I just can’t get picture people at the Washington Post being too worked up about this.

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Ask the SEO Guru — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 02:07:38 +0000

Oh my Gawd!! My Page Rank has dropped and now my dog has cancer!…

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By: Craig

Craig — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 21:22:26 +0000

What you say is absolutely correct. To be honest, I think buying links is def. worthwhile and selling links isn’t usually that good an idea – with some exceptions. when you sell links, especially if they are site-wide, then what’s the point in creating a hole for link juice to escape from your site? Couldn’t that juice be better spent on your own site?

By: TheMadHat

TheMadHat — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 20:41:39 +0000

Who cares what the damn toolbar says. 2, 5, 8. If that factors into your link buying equation you should be flipping hamburgers at burger king anyway.

By: Marc Beharry

Marc Beharry — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 18:56:44 +0000

the adjustment does not appear to be dealt evenly, because the sites I manage with average pr of 4 remained the same, making them more valuable now.

I wonder how exponentially more difficult the the jumps from 4 to 5 and 5 to 6 will be now

By: Greg

Greg — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 18:32:44 +0000

Not as of yet. And I don’t think anyone will. The idea is to simply take PR out of the sales equation. It wouldn’t make much sense to prevent a site like Forbes from ranking. There’s a ton of quality content on that site. And there’s also plenty of benefits involved with advertising on Forbes. Google just doesn’t want juice to be one of them.

By: Dustin

Dustin — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 18:28:18 +0000

Great point Greg. Have you seen any evidence of any of these sites actually dropping in SERP rank? That’s what I’m asking in my blog post:
http://www.webconnoisseur.com/blog/seo/googles-pagerank-drop-seos-dissapoint-me/

Because I haven’t seen any evidence of it yet.