Comments on: Google sends a message!

By: NevD

NevD — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 15:34:28 +0000

The strange thing is that my wife’s Algarve site has lost 2 PR places (I think) down from 4 to 2…
But, traffic continues to improve, and the best search terms still rank #1 or on the first page anyway -
So, really, what does PR do anyway?
And, as for Alexa ranking, don’t make me laugh. The site had an Alexa rank of around 380,000 back when it got almost no traffic. Now it’s doing 50 times the traffic, the Alexa Rank is more than 1,000,000.
As others have posted elsewhere, it’s probably best just to get on with building valuable content, if you want to placate the SE gods.

By: James Wilcox

James Wilcox — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 21:00:54 +0000

I’ve commented on the other big blogs about this already but PR shouldn’t be any blogger’s concern anyway. I say just concentrate on doing what you do and the traffic, PR, alexa rankings etc. will work themselves out. These things only matter for the various affiliate programs it seems anyway. I don’t read a blog or visit a site just because it’s got a high PR…in fact I didn’t even know TechCrunch existed were it not for John Chow’s blog mentioning it.

By: Lars-Christian

Lars-Christian — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 23:29:13 +0000

Did you read the article?

” While most that have been hit are throwing hissy-fits about the changes, I for one am encouraged by this. ”

I personally would say that, if I interpret the message they are sending correctly, it’s a good thing by all means. Of course, many (those who suffer because of it) will disagree.

By: Dexter

Dexter — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 23:14:25 +0000

And the message is bad ?