Reasons For A Google Page Rank (PR) Drop
In case you haven’t noticed, there’s a loud buzz - big bang, if you would - on the blog world right now about Google penalizing blogs that are selling text links or are full of sponsored posts.
I’ve been asking myself why my PR dropped from PR4 to PR3 last August and I think, most probably that these are the cause.
Here some reasons why Google penalize a blog and thus decreasing its Page Rank - if not removing it from their index.
- Posting Duplicate Content
- Keyword Stuffing
- Selling Text Links Ads
- and others… Please share…
Like I said, Everything Eli blog had a PR of 4 last July 2007, the day I posted that Google will be updating Page Ranks for their indexed websites. A month later, blog’s PR dropped to 2!
Duplicate Content
Duplicate content was my first suspect in my PR drop. Although Google doesn’t too much wait on it specially if there are no malicious intent it is “not grounds for action on that site unless it appears that the intent of the duplicate content is to be deceptive and manipulate search engine results”.
Here is my say on duplicate content.
Keyword Stuffing
Keyword stuffing is putting bunch of words that is not relevant to your site or blog. Perfect example here is Alex Chiu’s site. Alex claims that Google doesn’t want people know about his invention but the truth is, the site is bombarded with keywords that is totally not related to his website.
Always remember what Matt Cutt’s (he’s the head of Google Webspam group) said,
Google reserves the right to do what we think is best to maintain the relevance of our search results, and that includes taking action on keyword stuffing.
Selling Text Links Ads
This has been in discussion for some time now in relation to PR drop and Google penalizing website who do sell text links. Search Engine Land has confirmed that Selling Paid Links will hurt your PR as much as -2. Ouch!
With that, I am 100% sure that my PR dropped last August was because of too much payperpost.
I say, if Google will start deducting PRs on website with paid links, I think PPP should not include Google PR as one of their critiria in giving out higher paying opportunities.
Right?
October 13th, 2007 at 11:10 am
Page rank.. hmm. I have not really seen a change in mine and I believe it lies with the fact that I do not add much adverts and when I do, I do not give it a recent date? I don’t know if that has an effect though..
About your question in my blog whether you are in my VIP list, yes you are Kuya! ;]