Comments on: Frustrating Yes – But I Want Google To Be My Friend

By: The Niche Think Tank

The Niche Think Tank — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 04:34:31 +0000

I smell a revolt coming…hahahaha
You know, I hate how google has the MONOPOLY on this search engine stuff. Which is why I am going to start marketing my blog for other SE’s like yahoo and MSN. I am not sure how but I am going to learn adn blog about it. GGRRRrrrrr….

By: mirc

mirc — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 18:06:12 +0000

Then for TLA to stay in business I hope they are listening

By: Yaro

Yaro — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 23:03:54 +0000

I didn’t experience a SERPS drop at all, however I’m still worried that Google’s next penalty for sites that sell links will impact SERPs.

That’s why I was eager to get this site penalty free. I’m pretty sure the penalties applied so far are purely the visible PR, not the real pagerank as part of the algorithm.

By: Branchenbuch

Branchenbuch — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 00:12:35 +0000

Yaro, did you notice a drop in visitors from google when going down in PR,or was it all the same with 6, 5, or 3? Were you penalized in the SERPs also?

By: InvestorBlogger

InvestorBlogger — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 08:35:18 +0000

I know of one that gives you the option: LinkWorth allows you to choose whether links, etc. are no_follow. Other companies are still slowly coming around to it, but TLA currently doesn't. Neither does PPP. Kenneth

By: Yaro

Yaro — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 23:33:35 +0000

Piyo – I don’t know of any text link brokers that use nofollow, but I’m sure they exist somewhere.

Maybe you could look around and then let us know

By: Piyo

Piyo — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 08:06:53 +0000

Actually, is there an alternative to TLA which is using nofollow? There should be no problem to the page rank if such a thing exist, no?

p.s. sorry for my English.

By: Armaan

Armaan — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 20:10:39 +0000

PR is not showing any credibility anymore. People can buy PR with money. So, i don’t feel i start charity because google don’t like that i can do business directly with my advertisers!

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By: Say No To PageRank!

Say No To PageRank! — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 01:35:55 +0000

Bloggers, don’t give in! Google should not be able to determine what people can and can’t do with their own site. Search engines should be neutral and Google has way too much control here. I would hope that advertisers and others will see this and realize that PageRank is not a neutral ranking; a high PR merely means that the site has some links to it and is playing nicely with Google, and that is all. PageRank had little to do with traffic before and even less now – a traffic ranking system like Alexa, though far from perfect (especially considering subdomains) is the sort of thing we should be moving towards.

Someone (preferably a group of bloggers with some clout) needs to start a site dedicated to fighting these actions by Google and debunking PageRank. Show that PageRank is meaningless, and it will be!