Just in time for Halloween, the internet has had it’s first widespread massacre and coming back from battle is the victorious Google, carrying it’s opponent’s head on a stake, dragging the corpse of the fallen SEO (Search Engine Optimization) through the mud.
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your monitors, for it is with great sorrow we mourn our fallen comrade. While SEO’s death may not be apparent to the omnipotent network bloggers and marketing gurus who routinely game the search engines to stuff their pockets full of more affiliate cash, it is painfully obvious the peon webmasters and bloggers that we are no longer considered a contributing factor in the internet’s development.
In a recent turn of events, B5Media has convinced Google to fix their network blogs Pagerank. I guess you have to be a network blogger and hooked up with B5Media to get anything done when your blog or website gets slapped by Google. Apparently several of B5Media’s network blogs were bushwhacked with Pagerank penalties in the recent update but Brian Clark at copyblogger.com is reporting that after one of the B5Media representatives got on the phone with Google, his site’s Pagerank, which had been reduced to PR4 from PR6 has been re-adjusted to a PR7. It also appears that Darren Rowse’s problogger.com has also been restored to PR6 from the Google beatdown to PR4. It must be nice to have friends on the inside of Google to get them to take notice of your site and personally make changes to it’s Pagerank. Unfortunately, this is not going to sit well with the scores of non-network bloggers who have been unfairly penalized and for all the other webmasters who were penalized in this update.
Victor at Mobile Marketing Watch is one of the non-network bloggers caught up in Google’s frenzy to exterminate paid-links, and his article Google Dinged My PageRank gives another side to the story, although he doesn’t have the power of B5Media to re-adjust his Pagerank.
Hamlet Batista has published an excellent, in-depth article PageRank: Caught in the paid-link crossfire that details the computation of Pagerank and the trickle down economics that govern Google’s alogorithm for applying it to websites.
SEOBook’s Aaron Wall speaks up here regarding Google Pagerank :
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Since Google is demoting PageRank’s viability as a site’s global authority score perhaps this is a time for Yahoo to bring back WebRank, or Ask to launch
something like CommunityRank. The Google-webmaster relationship is fraying. This presents an opportunity for whoever wants to take it. |
In my opinion, I really don’t think Google Pagerank matters anymore and for the most part Google search is irrelevant for getting high quality traffic to your blog or site. Most webmasters have already learned that being active in forums and commenting on high quality blogs brings them more high quality traffic and returning traffic than Google or Yahoo ever will turn you. Plus 90% of search engine traffic will “bounce” at a much higher rate than traffic gained from effective social networking.
Whatever Google’s reasoning for continually attacking the webmaster community, it will eventually backfire on them because in all truth and reality, the whole text-link selling and web-directory niche markets arose specifically due to Google’s Pagerank. It strikes me as odd that a multi-billion dollar company who is raking the money in with their overvalued stock will actually cut the throats of the community that put them on the map.
SEO is dead, Google killed it, long live Social Networking.
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Well, I don’t think she’s dead, but SEO is certainly becoming that thing you do to get extra traffic after you’ve juiced your social conduits.
Remember when meta tags meant something?
Nice post!
Cheers,
Mitch
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