This video was shot a few days back.
Google’s Obfuscation of PageRank ScoresGoogle has a long history of deceiving webmasters, in order to push Google’s business interests and keep their search results clean.
Popularity: unranked [?]
Search Engine Land recently listed a bunch of sites that had their PageRank scores manually edited for selling links. Of course, if you are the publisher of one of these sites, you don’t care about an algorithm relevancy score so meaningless that it is edited by hand. You care about traffic.
Rankings Never Changed
Popularity: unranked [?]
Posted by randfish
This morning brings news from around the web of losses to the Google Toolbar PageRank (the little green pixels displayed in the toolbar) for a myriad of sites. The best coverage I’ve seen comes from Andy Beard, as well as SEJournal and SELand (which has a comprehensive list of sites discussing the update).
Read the rest of this entry »
Popularity: unranked [?]
Search Engine Land recently listed a bunch of sites that had their PageRank scores manually edited for selling links. Of course, if you are the publisher of one of these sites, you don’t care about an algorithm relevancy score so meaningless that it is edited by hand. You care about traffic.
Popularity: unranked [?]
A friend of mine recently emailed me to ask if his site was penalized for selling links. The same email went on to say that he is ranking better than ever in Google, even for his core category single word query, but his toolbar PageRank score dropped by one.
Google Stats Are Wonky
Many of Google’s webmaster stats are rarely updated and/or intentionally inaccurate. And many stats change on a whim, while reflecting no real change in the structure of the web.
Popularity: unranked [?]