I use the Google Toolbar to monitor PageRank. I read on the Internet that it gives old and quite unreliable data. Can I have reliable realtime PageRank information about the sites I administer? And how can I identify causes of a PageRank drop? silviot, Torino, Italy
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if a site sells links what they hells that got to do with google or a rank? i'm not selling links but i don't see how google should bully website owners in this way its a conflict of interest and thats breaking the law
This PR talk does sounds conflicting but i'm still learning so i reserve my coments
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hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
so maybe Google can explain why a site owner is punished, at the level of PR, by monetizing his/her website by selling text-link ads. Why should a high volume, heavily read website not be able to make money by selling link ads especially if the ads are clearly identified on the page (not in the link itself) as advertisements? I use Google AdSense which many times contains text-link ads, so Google is getting the majority of the revenue, but if I sell the same style ad my website is punished.
Very helpful video 🙂
The toolbar is for users who search, not webmasters. It's supposed to help the user determine how good the page is they are visiting.
Great bit of information thank you.
Selling links = 30% drop of the pagerank
I think something to get businesses to actually realize that links count in SEO is to have some sort of PR obsession. Too many times business owners just totally miss the fact they need links, so they invest in content, don't see a change because they don't bother about the link side of things, and then they stop investing in content until they hear they need links on some sales copy landing page…
google addwords is selling links??
If Google wants people not to worry about PageRank, why not just get rid of the public-facing parts of it altogether? Sure there'd be a lot of wailing and gnashing of teeth at first, but those people shouldn't have been caring about it originally…
@costatropicalgranada AdWords is adequately disclosed to the search engine as a paid link. When one site sells a link to another site, there is no adequate way to tell the search engine that it is a quality link and worth a user's while to see it as something they searched for.
@costatropicalgranada lol… best comment of the week my friend
You said it at the start.. PR is not what they should worry about. The selling links drop is a very good reason to drop someone's PR because as mentioned in your T&Cs , it is against them 😀