From an SEO perspective, it may be very important to take note of the new changes in the algorithm and the page rank degradation which has become the most significant now. Many or all of the page rank degradation reported have been the result of Google misunderstanding your site. Like Darren’s Problogger degrading to a PR 4, which have not sold any text link in the near future.
Let’s find out what could’ve happened.
All the above are assumptions on the Google crawlers thinking, keeping in mind they are pretty new to this area - to find out who exactly is guilty of selling links from their sites. My guess is that Google thought of all possible ways to get hold of the “culprits” and just went about catching anyone it found on the way who were likely to sell links on their sites.
But Matt had already warned us right? There could’ve been some precautions taken by those active link sellers. Let’s see what could’ve been done to stop Google misunderstanding you.
Well, now that Google has taken the drastic step, there is very little that we can do. But Matt and his team needs to device more clear and precise strategies to find out who actually are buying links, who were buying links and who doesn’t buy links any more. What’s happening now isn’t fair at all.
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I remain a bit baffled, the Google traffic on my PR 4 blog has dipped in last couple of weeks quite significantly. I have a TLA’s link at two places. Could this be the culprit? Thinking aloud.
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Rajesh, Selling text links can only degrade your PR but not traffic. Or at least that’s what’s observed now..
Having a lower PR has got very less to do with your organic traffic stats…So I think this may be something else, not the PR update.
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not always text links can degrade your traffic. …unless u get mouch of your traffic from Gooogle…gr8 news is recenlty my pr jumped to 4 from 0 [:D] cheers to me
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Google has been running me wild over this the past few months. I am playing catch up to my competitors and need more links. So to buy or not to buy? They have all bought links but no penalty…Anyway good info you have there.
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