Comments on: Google PageRank: Tool or Marketing Gimmick?

By: Myers

Myers — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 21:29:45 +0000

Hey,
Good point raised. It more like a Marketing Gimmick.
Thanks for sharing it

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By: Lynn Terry

Lynn Terry — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 17:45:22 +0000

No, its simply a webmasters tool – it doesnt help or affect searchers in any way. And honestly, it doesnt confirm traffic stats or success either way – just like Alexa.

By: Mark Foo

Mark Foo — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 11:12:45 +0000

Hi guys, I agree with Lynn. I personally do not think of PageRank as that significant in traffic. In fact other than showing post data, does it help the bloggers or searchers in a specific way? I have never heard of any Google users search for blogs by typing “blogs with page rank 7 or above” The PageRank also cannot prove that the author is providing fantastic stuff, other than the fact that he knows how to generate traffic tremendously. That’s my 2 cents worth, hope you guys don’t mind.

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By: redspace

redspace — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 23:01:33 +0000

IMO as long i feel google is doing a lof of good for the majorities of people i would follow their rules. anything that can be manipulated easily using money is not a good for internet communities as a whole. if you listen to people who are not are not making money online but use it for making their life easy you really feel sympathies for them.

i got the feeling that a lot of people who are already making money online is getting to the point that they are only thinking about themselves and their groups. the way they talked like they don’t care for anybody else because they felt they can make money easily. that usually happen when money can buys anything.

By: Patty Gale

Patty Gale — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 18:58:08 +0000

I do get some good search engine traffic, too, and while it is not my largest source, it is significant enough that I wouldn’t want to lose that, either.

As you said, I completely agree that it is very important to keep visitors on the site and engage them.

By: Lynn Terry

Lynn Terry — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 18:32:11 +0000

I agree, Patty. But at the same time, Google remains the single largest traffic source for my sites too. I would hate to lose the rankings, I admit.

That said, there are plenty more. Its just increasingly important to KEEP visitors once you get them to your site. I believe it would benefit site owners to invest time in that concept at least equally as much as they invest in “SEO” – if not more so.

By: Patty Gale

Patty Gale — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 18:22:46 +0000

Very good points, Lynn. I have neither bought nor sold text links, nor am I a PayPerPost blog.

While my core blog is still considered a ‘baby’ in the terms of longevity, it did receive some PR in the latest Google changes.

Big deal.

At the same time, Google seems to be in a ‘love-hate’ relationship with my blog. In the beginning, all posts were indexed n a reasonable amount of time, then were suddenly no where to be found.

Then, they were indexing all posts faster than I could type. Now, they’ve de-indexed them again.

They ‘award’ (using that term loosely) me some PR, yet de-index my posts.

I say, “whatever.”

My unique visitors and subscribers (newsletter and rss) are steadily increasing every month, which tells me I have real human eyeballs visiting and liking what they see.

This is much more important and a much better indicator than worrying about a little green bar in my browser.

By: Lynn Terry

Lynn Terry — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 13:54:58 +0000

Sadly, there are a lot of people out there that depend on their monthly revenue from sites like PayPerPost that likely took a hard hit – losing half of their income overnight, I’m sure.

Sad because the quality of their blog didnt change. The traffic they get didnt change. Their loyal reader base didnt change. Just their income.

This is not the place to debate PayPerPost necessarily, but perhaps I’ll share my opinion on all that in a separate post…

By: Mandy

Mandy — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 13:50:41 +0000

It is sad that it has come to this. I don’t take too much notice of pagerank, although I did enjoy seeing my PR going from 0 to 3 in the recent update.

I do focus on attracting visitors and therefore have never used services like pay per post and text link ads. So pagerank has not been an issue.

But when these types of ‘punishments’ are dished out there will no doubt be innocent parties involved. And that’s when the hard part of convincing Google they are wrong starts. I have heard of this going on in the past couple of weeks!

By: Lynn Terry

Lynn Terry — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 13:44:14 +0000

I will be ditching Text Link Ads across all of my sites, and I also plan to remove sponsor information on paid posts here at ClickNewz. Since the required amount of time has passed, I could simply delete all of those posts, but instead I am just going to remove the “sponsored by” text and leave the great reviews and content that I wrote.

Whether that will “redeem me” or not, I dont know. And I’m not worried about it. But TLA is no longer the revenue source it was for me (by more than 50%), and those changes wont have a negative effect on my sites. So it seems like a smart move for a number of reasons at this point.

By: Melanie

Melanie — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 11:57:08 +0000

Thank you for the article! Much information here as always! It is a “game” for sure it seems. I know I finally got a PR2 and was so excited…the minute I upped my blogging for cash with PayPerPost (not complaining, need this green)…my PR dropped to a PR1. It is odd because your “opps” on PPP are based on Page Rank for the most part at my lower level. So if they drop your PR because of it, you also get less “opps” on PPP. GAME ON!