Comments on: Bollocks To Google

By: newkiraj

newkiraj — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 06:03:01 +0000

heh, i stumbled here =D

By: Kermit

Kermit — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 04:35:04 +0000

Thank you, sir. I have written a few blogs on this subject lately. Just keep writing quality, as you define quality, and people will either come or they won’t. Either way, you will be able to live with yourself. Bravo, Rhys!

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Reflections On The Google Slapfest » Blog-Op — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 15:46:05 +0000

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Sunday Speedlinking for 28/10/07 | The Gospel According To Rhys — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 05:00:54 +0000

[...] all the Google Pagerank Update Talk (I was too quick to boast, I’m either getting bitchslapped down to a 3 or a 2), bloggers are [...]

By: Ken

Ken — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 14:53:33 +0000

I can’t believe this - it happened at 4.00am. Both my blogs jumped to a GPR-4. One was a three and the other unranked.

OK, so I’m one of the winers, but the point that I made earlier still stands - we need a successor to GPR.

By: Rhys

Rhys — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 09:48:48 +0000

Excactly! I care more about my readers than page rank. I’ve been hit however, and I will blog about it next week

By: Jem

Jem — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 09:34:33 +0000

Wha wha wha. I don’t know what the hell everyone’s whining about. You think the majority of your visitors or potential visitors give a crap what your google pagerank is, or even know that it exists?

By: Rhys

Rhys — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 07:52:27 +0000

The fact of the matter is that even though my Pagerank has now dropped (it’s now either a 3 or a 2), I have more subscribers than ever, more hits than ever and more linkbacks and authority (in technorati) than ever.

Sure, I’m now PR3, but I’m not going to give up £50 a month to get me into PR4. For what? I don’t do paid reviews, just paid links. People only find my blog by searching for “Rhys”. I can cope with that )

Ironically, my Fair Review Website is now a PR4

By: Madhur Kapoor

Madhur Kapoor — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 06:28:38 +0000

You hit the nail on the head buddy. Even i am not going to remove the TLA or any other thing even if it affects my PR. I feel i have a good enough community around my blog and that is enough for me.

By: Ken

Ken — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 04:44:53 +0000

Sorry, Rhys, but I don’t agree. I have been blogging at The Exile for exactly two years. New postings almost every day, lots of original stuff, and the hit counter never gets above a 100. OK, that’s fine, but the notion that content = hits is a myth.

Google has screwed us. Let’s stop the denials and admit that the sponsored postings are going to pay less if the site has been downgraded. A GPR-5 will get about $25.00+ for a posting, a GPR-3 is lucky to pull in $15.00. Let’s face the reality of our situation…

My solution? Well, the long version you can read here. The quick version is that Yahoo should take up the slack and give us a widget with a numerical value that reflects out back links.