Money Makers
Another Google PR update
Looks like Google is giving an early toolbar PageRank update of the year 2008. In fact, I noticed the data center was reset to zero while I was doing a random check yesterday. I thought it was a system glitch or something, so I didn’t pay much attention to it until I realised today that one of my blogs read a PR of 5 (from PR4) on the Google PageRank extension in my Firefox. I’m not sure if the toolbar PageRank update is confirmed, but there are certainly several reports across webmaster forums about the update.
I then did a PR check on all my blogs, and very much to my surprise that WiseBlogging was also updated to PR4 from PR3, although not much of linking work was done. Whereas, the other two blogs of mine remained at PR4. In conclusion, I’m now having a blog with a more respectable PR5 and 3 blogs with PR4, not a bad start for the year 2008. This early PR update allows me to reorganise my editorial calendar and restrategize to maximize the earning of my blogs.
Remember during the last PR update when many websites had their Google PageRank reduced due to paid links and cloaking, Google also booted them from the index. I’m expecting to see more sites being ripped off their PageRank value in this update. If yours was penalized, I’m sorry to hear that, but PageRank drops doesn’t really mean anything. Who cares what Google thinks about your site quality. It might negatively affect your ad revenue, but hey, who says you can’t make money without Google? Always explore other monetization options that do not require an outdated quality indicator like PageRank. Frankly speaking, most advertisers do not even look at PageRank value of your site, and some of them do not even know what a PageRank is. =p
Has your PageRank been updated? What does it mean to you? Share with us.
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