My PR3 went down to zero! | Bloggers Lair | Yakezie Forums

Do I dare say I'm still a 5?

<sheepishly backing into dark corner all to myself now>

Mine has not changed but even if it did there would have been very little drama – one of the advantages to have a low rank (and probably the only one). I also have a very large spread between PR and MozRank but I have learned that all this a mystery which I may never fathom.

Maria

I too became a memeber of this non exclusive club. 

But why is this happening? Just curious, that is all.

Maria

Post edited 9:15 am – March 15, 2012 by maria@moneyprinciple

Well, the way I see it (and please feel free to stop reading now) is the following:

1) there are three possible approaches to the situation: compliance, defiance and refucusing.

2) Compliance is the least radical and productive one – you feel bad because someone else won and you don't get what you want;

3) Defiance is the one that makes you feel better but doesn't mean that you get what you want;

4) Refocusing is the most powerful one – you not only shift your attention to something else but work towards overall, group change of focus. More importantly, thne chances are you will get what you want.

I believe that what is happening is a perfect opportunity to enact point 4 – and am convinced that we can do it as a group. I am ready to expalin what I mean (if someone is still reading and interested) in private communication.

Maria

I went from a 4 to a 2 on my blog, but my "company" site, personal site, and niche site remained at PR3, PR1, and PR1 respectively. Like someone was saying earlier, I think it's the UK links. Time for a new strategy. Who knew blogging could be so scary.

Maria, 

I couldn't agree more.  By all means, drop me an email.

On the subject, I think that this one metric controls a specific type of advertising and this metric is owned by one company.  Basing the income of a site, or business, on one metric/controlled source is a guaranteed way to put your eggs in one basket and if that basket springs a leak (or is set to flame) – you're done.  Especially if you rely on that basket to put dinner on the table.

Diversification is key.

As I said, drop me an email.  Happy to discuss in more detail.

maria@moneyprinciple said:

 <3 options I don't want to quote – SPF>

4) Refocusing is the most powerful one – you not only shift your attention to something else but work towards overall, group change of focus. More importantly, thne chances are you will get what you want.

 I believe that what is happening is a perfect opportunity to enact point 4 – and am convinced that we can do it as a group. I am ready to expalin what I mean (if someone is still reading and interested) in private communication.

 

Nick said:

Dividend Ninja said:

Nick said:

Stupid question:  Even if Google were to ding a site, do they do it in realtime?  Wouldn't it just go to 0 the next time they update?  Or is it "can't move up or down for normal reasons between PR updates but if we want to ding you for something we'll do it whenever we want"?

Hey Nick, no one really knows how Google arrives at their algorithm or what they are looking, and very few people would know. As Suba said so clearly

However, it is well known that Google does hand checks on sites by staff. In other words they do manual audits whenever for whatever reason. As Suba said, they can manually adjust the PR ranking accordingly.

Cheers

Thanks.  Really interesting stuff… as a tech moron it's really like learning Russian (I speak Greek, so it's definitely not Greek to me!)

That's so cool that you speak Greek. I studied a few Ancient Greek dialects in college!