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You wanted the PR update - you got it, or at least something like it. Many folks, however, are not happy with it. What’s interesting tho is that everything I see (after a quick scan) mentioned everywhere about sites affected by the PR downgrade, as they refer to it, concerns blogs and blogs alone. Some speculate about selling links and doing paid reviews, others speculate about networks being the new ultimate evil. Whatever - I can’t be arsed to analyze this shit, too busy making sites that are making me money so I’ll just agree with what Scott said here and here. Traffic is indeed the only thing that matters. This blog has not been affected. Neither has been one of my otehr blogs that has managed to survive 2 pagerank updates already while remaining PR0 and successfully accomplishing the task it exists for - i.e. making me money. So fuck you Darren Rowse, and fuck you John Chow, for whining about losing your Page Rank. Shoemoney doesn’t seem to care about it, oh and Loren Baker got it right as well.

Back to spamming, need to spam enough to buy me a new car - oh, and prolly spamming blogs whose rank has dropped in order to get your spam indexed is not such a good idea any more

UPDATE: Evidently at the time of posting this the PR update has not been finished yet - neither it is now it seems as people keep reporting fluctuations. This blog has shifted from PR4 to PR3, and the other blog got from PR0 to PR3 - not that I care much but still. I’ve yet to hear a sound theory as to what’s happened tho.

Lately, there has appeared a number of articles speculating about whether or not Google is about to drop PR (we’re of course talking of toolbar Page Rank here). Of course we all know PR is just one of a huge number of other factors Google looks at when ranking sites, and it gets to play a smaller part in the ranking algo as time passes. Of course we also know that TBPR is just a joke to give silly webmasters something to talk about and the real pagerank is calculated by Google in real time dynamically and may have nothing to do with what we get to see in the toolbar.

Whether or not it will be buried by Google I personally have no idea and we may speculate here all we want but the facts speak for themselves:
1. Last time there was an update, it wasn’t like all the previous updates in the way that new sites that would have otherwise received at least PR2 have not received anything
2. If you look at any given top 10 of any SERPs you will notice very little corelation between the pages’ pagerank and their positions
3. It’s been a while since last PR update and it makes me wonder if there ever gonna be another one.
4. PR is soooo DP…… who talks about it these days except DP folks?

Back to work. Go ahead and talk some more about it if you wish. I know a couple of years ago when the PR on the tool bar went dead for a few days I could have pulled a nice and potentially profitable trick if only I was a bit faster and talked a bit less and acted a bit more organized.

I won’t list all the recent instances of Microsoft’s search presence being broken - everybody sure has at least someting to complain, from easily spammable SERPs to slow indexing. This time, it’s their submit a URL page. Enter your URL, type in the captcha, press Submit and wait for MSN to pick up your site? - yea rite! Not any more!

I wonder if it’s just a normal routine fuckup or a pre-Christmas spam protection, MSN style?