It looks as though this blog has dropped from having a Google PageRank of 4 to just 3. This could well be due to the commercial posts I have been making, which have placed a lot more OBL (outbound links) on the front page, or perhaps Google are attempting to deliver on their threat/promise to punish bloggers who try and make a living from their site. I’d gladly be using AdSense right now, however Google saw fit to ban my account, so I had to turn to alternative methods.
Hey ho.
Oct 19 2007
October 19th, 2007 8:50 pm
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October 19th, 2007 10:53 pm
I didn’t see any PR update recently, how could your blog’s PR drop ? What tool did you use to see that ?
October 19th, 2007 11:07 pm
There have been some re-adjustments over the last 6 weeks on some sites. I have only just returned from my holidays, so I have no idea if an official Google PR update has actually occurred.
I use the LivePR FireFox extension, as well as Softnik’s Good Keywords stat checker.
See here for the FF extension, here for the Softnik’s Good Keywords and here for a Google DC check.
October 20th, 2007 3:58 am
Thank you, Chris. I can confirm that no official Google PR update has occured recently. Thank you for the tools as well, I’m going to check it out.
October 20th, 2007 4:08 am
np at all. Hope they help some time in the future. If you don’t mind me asking, how did you find this site – random browsing, linked from someone else, google search etc. ? If you don’t want to say, np, just interested…
excusez-moi pour pas commente (?) ton (?) votre blog, mais mon francais c’est une petit peut mal….
October 20th, 2007 4:57 am
I discovered your blog on Walkonmypath.com (today’s post). I am currently reading your comment.
Pas de probleme pour le francais, je parle anglais ! 😉
October 20th, 2007 6:19 am
Ah, thanks for satisfying my curiosity 🙂
March 1st, 2008 3:12 am
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