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Google Lowered My PageRank, Was My Website Penalized?
Vertical Search News Source: http://www.seobook.com
Published: Oct 17, 2007 - 11:51 am
Story Found By: DoshDosh 1683 Days ago
Category: Vertical Search
It is no coincidence that Google chose not to update toolbar PageRank scores in a great deal of time before spreading more propaganda against paid links, and then launched a partial data push (how often do they do that)? This way when they finally update PageRank and many pages have a slightly lower PageRank score many webmasters will wonder "was I penalized?"
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from tappingcreativity 1683 Days ago #
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"If making PageRank function requires hand editing isn’t that an indication that PageRank is irrelevant? Why not change they relevancy algorithms rather than trying to scare people?"This point alone was worth the read.

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from iBrian 1681 Days ago #
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"he is ranking better than ever in Google, even for his core category single word query, but his toolbar PageRank score dropped by one."That says it all - it’s a non-issue.PageRank values rise and fall, but is irrelevant when it comes to traffic. And if traffic rises while PageRank falls, where’s the complaint?

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from Jab 1681 Days ago #
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One question remains, what des toolbar PageRank say about bottraffic?!

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from demib 1681 Days ago #
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> One question remains, what des toolbar PageRank say about bottraffic?! Nothing, never has, never will

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from Zonk 1681 Days ago #
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Pagerank can be lowered automatically because of adding to the site several outbound sitewide links. Sitewide links drain lots of PageRank from every page. This may reduce your PR because more PR could have flown to your deep pages and then returned to your main page.

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from kensavage 1681 Days ago #
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I’m glad one of my sites went from PR6 to PR5.My SE traffic has increased 2.5x to 4x over the last week.another example of why PR means nothing

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