logopond.com - from PR6 to PR3

In the last 24 hours the PR of logopond.com went down from PR6 to PR3.
This is the consequence of the fact that logopond.com sold 16 x 16 px ads,
without using no-follow.

These days link and [big amount of] banner sales leads to PR drop. This is a fact.

 

i think everybody knew this? Thats why it's better to have no more than 10 ads on the site.

 

Hopefully...

I would say, no more than 5 banners, if you don't want to add no-follow.

 

Google is going after "text links" not banner sales.

 

I'm not seeing any changes

 

Nope they are going after "Pagerank" sellers in general, and these banners/buttons pass Pagerank and elevate rankings especially with the Alt & Title attributes attached just as much as text links do.

If Google ignored image links, everyone would just change their text link to images.

 

I had a PR6 domain that I purchased go from PR6 to PR3 recently. I didn't buy or sell links on the domain/site, though...so I'm hoping it's just a tweak and not a glass PR ceiling...

 

can you see me this domain

 

I dont think this is anything new

 

There was a Google pagerank update in the last 24 hours?

 

Totally Agreed with You. But a Pixel site sells more then 1k banner in a single page .. lol so its worth less.

 

well this is not something new... it happens sometimes when Google sees inappropriate link cropping up for a site... or may be your site is linking to some unethical link farms... I don't think it has anything to do with banner sales... etc... its just a tweak in the ranking...

 

I can see where Google is coming from though - If you ran your own advertising... and your own trusting system that is known world-wide, wouldn't you personally drop the ranking intentionally of the competition? (Them bastards, hehe)... It's making my Web Directory impossible to jump above PR3

 

that's sad. you are penalize.
google sucks.

 

Yes, this is 100% true.

Those 16 x 16 px banners - without no-follow and with Alt attribute - has S.E.O. value, so in order to not influence the PR of the sites they link to,
Google has to penalize the site that list them.