Pay Per Post Blog Network Penalized to PR0 by Google

[forums]

According the the Pay Per Post blog and Techcrunch - Many of their bloggers have just been downgraded to PR0 in Google's latest reaction to paid blogging and backlinks.

[izeaus]

Just read the blog . I have not been hit right now .. May be I could be hit sometime in near future

[narenderpalsingh]

Take it easy.....I think Google thinked of reviewing products for spam sites that pop-up over night, and poof out two weeks later, so it would be intelligent if you'r reviewing for $$ to check out what business is behind the product!!! It's like link sharing... would you link-share with every one-night-stand website?? i surely wouldn't!!! Google follows a policy "Smoke and mirror" to fool around. Even with the best pattern recognization algorithms they will have to rub it hard for real fire. You can trick the SEs but better not to trick the visitors who perceive you and me as a maven.

[trichnosis]

backlinks from blog network are so easy to detect for google.

blog networks were not useful and they are not useful now

[soniqhost.com]

Well there goes around industry centered around google's pagerank system

[Wealdie]

If you cheat you die

Google seems to be taking out all the "schemes" that were set up to game the system.

I have no problem with that

[Cartman]

It's not just PPP blogs.. I have 35 blogs that went to PR0 overnight. One of them is a 3 year old blog that has never had fantastic traffic, but has always languished between a PR2 and PR3. 32 of them are VERY high profile sites that get linked to on a daily basis from many authority sites. The other 2 are niche blogs that were started about 6 months ago.

NONE of the sites have any paid advertising, and none have ever bought links from elsewhere. I suspect we're getting incorrectly penalized, but for the life of me I can't understand what we're doing that would even cause a blip on Google's radar.

It's very troubling, as we work our asses off on these sites, and Google is lashing out at us for no apparent reason.

[Wealdie]

Originally Posted by Cartman

I have 35 blogs that went to PR0 overnight

Are they interlinked?

[necromanc]

They hit the big guys, that everybody watches, and that's how a viral campaign is created. All small guys start talking and spread the message.

[Cartman]

Originally Posted by Wealdie

Are they interlinked?

Absolutely, but that should be irrelevant. Does the NFL have all of their team sites interlinked? You bet! What we're doing is exactly the same, so why should we be treated any differently because of it?

[kimberwyn]

Google can piss off, I really dont care what they do to my blog.

[templates]

Originally Posted by Wealdie

If you cheat you die

Google seems to be taking out all the "schemes" that were set up to game the system.

I have no problem with that

so everyone that has a blog,directory or that has a link somewhere "schemed"the system?

Originally Posted by Cartman

It's not just PPP blogs.. I have 35 blogs that went to PR0 overnight. One of them is a 3 year old blog that has never had fantastic traffic, but has always languished between a PR2 and PR3. 32 of them are VERY high profile sites that get linked to on a daily basis from many authority sites. The other 2 are niche blogs that were started about 6 months ago.

NONE of the sites have any paid advertising, and none have ever bought links from elsewhere. I suspect we're getting incorrectly penalized, but for the life of me I can't understand what we're doing that would even cause a blip on Google's radar.

It's very troubling, as we work our asses off on these sites, and Google is lashing out at us for no apparent reason.

yea,people that work hard on their sites also got caught up in the big G's web..But,focus on content and not PR and it will work out..Also,cross your fingures there is a SE out there somewhere that will ween us off GG's TIT

[candle21428]

Originally Posted by Cartman

It's not just PPP blogs.. I have 35 blogs that went to PR0 overnight. One of them is a 3 year old blog that has never had fantastic traffic, but has always languished between a PR2 and PR3. 32 of them are VERY high profile sites that get linked to on a daily basis from many authority sites. The other 2 are niche blogs that were started about 6 months ago.

NONE of the sites have any paid advertising, and none have ever bought links from elsewhere. I suspect we're getting incorrectly penalized, but for the life of me I can't understand what we're doing that would even cause a blip on Google's radar.

It's very troubling, as we work our asses off on these sites, and Google is lashing out at us for no apparent reason.

It seems to me that a drop in (toolbar) PR has very little effect on PR. There is nothing you may lose except for losing your PR especially when you are not doing any link sale. Am I right?

[DreamMaker]

I see the Buy-Sell Link report form in Google webmaster tool. If you found which website buy-sell link you can report Google and then they will be de-index or banned.

[forums]

Google Reveals their reasoning and logic for introducing their policy to penalyze link buyers and sellers who do so for PageRank


http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/sellin...pass-pagerank/




http://googlewebmastercentral.blogsp...d-selling.html