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Archive for October, 2007

Unfor­tu­nately not for the good

I noticed yes­ter­day that my page rank had dropped. The drop was not dras­tic, but since it took a lot of hard work to get it from a 5 to a 6 it was very depress­ing to see it back at a 5.

First thing I did was check out my fav forum Web Pro World. Seems I am not the only one that is see­ing the change, though not are all bad.

Now some are of the opin­ion that Page Rank really doesn’t mat­ter as long as you are still get­ting the traf­fic. In some respects I agree with that, but if noth­ing else I see page rank as a pos­i­tive or neg­a­tive Google ‘handshake’.

It appears the scoop is the drop is from ‘inter-linking’ and/or ‘sell­ing links’. Well I do have links to sites I have cre­ated. I think that is just part of busi­ness, these are web­sites my com­pany has cre­ated — the port­fo­lio. I cer­tainly don’t have paid links. Some are also say­ing it is the Big Play­ers that have been “spanked”. Well I would not put my com­pany in the Big Player cat­e­gory, at least the def­i­n­i­tion it seems they are using.

So why the drop?

Since paid links is not an issue my next step is check­ing out what is going on in my stats pro­grams. Google Ana­lyt­ics and Crafty Syn­tax — Live Help, which I can use to com­mu­ni­cate with folks who visit my site and more.

If you want to read an arti­cle about what is being called “Pager­ank Smack­down” Click here.
Cer­tainly one con­cern I have is that the ‘hack’ I had awhile back is now com­ing back to haunt me. (You can read more about that here Surely Google would check this con­sid­er­ing I even posted a remark to Matt Cutts (not that I heard any­thing back) and they are say­ing sites were viewed by humans and not just a script. This is a scary thought.

One thing to keep in mind when read­ing this is that Page Rank and search rank and two dif­fer­ent things. I checked a cou­ple of key­word phrase search terms for my site and I am still doing ok.

Jan

I am happy to announce that JBCR Vir­tual Solutions’Virtualoso’ Newslet­ter for Octo­ber 2007 is now avail­able. In this issue I cover:

1. Web Design and SEO
2. Google Google’s Stand on Links
3. Shop­ping Cart Frus­trated?
4. Sec­ond Life Snip­pets
5. Video (A very spe­cial treat)

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