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Hamlet takes his usual intelligent geeky look at the latest PageRank Fiasco, and discusses intelligent surfers.
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from lzr 1565 Days ago #
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Well, my site was not affected by early October PR updates. Now, when [as you say] G supposedly restored PR of "innocent sites", my index page dropped to PR4 after having PR5 for several years. Since I did not sell or buy links, I suspect a few things:1.Google’s paid link detection algorithm may have bugs (could it "suspect" a link to my daughter’s photogrpahy page which is unrelated to my content as paid, or treat DoubleClick/Dart affiliates as paid?)2. The latest update also penalizes reciprocal links (I have two Links pages).

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from Sem-Advance 1564 Days ago #
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@ lzrYour PR would drop by the sites linking to yours.The OBL to your daughters site, if thought as paid, would diminish her PR not vice versa.No algorithim is perfect, they work on averages, some sites will get caught in the crosshairs.The latest update did not penalize recips it simply fully devalued them.I have yammered for years that they are worthless and people would not listenhttp://www.seochat.com/c/a/Google-Optimization-Help/Links-Why-They-Are-Of-Little-Value-In-Helping-To-Achieve-Front-Page-Google-Results/Valentines day 2005 that was written. Full on assault to the brain, and look two+ years later and theres been a valentines day massacre of PR.You have to remember Google likes to lie too...or why is this as it is???http://www.livecustomer.com/ PR6 Sells via Adwords - selective link slapping? Ahh do no evil goes out the door again.As a side note, clients & my sites went up in PR this update.Off to ride my quad in a bit. PR going up is a reason to ride ....

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