Monday, January 14, 2008

Google, PageRank and all that bull

Google has laid down the law. If you have "paid" blog posts on your blog your PageRank will get smacked down to 0 or less - gone. Why did they do this? Is their system some holier than thou, bend down to the mighty Google God? If Google was in the real flesh and blood world it would be guilty of persecuting people by association. If I want to put a link to a website on my blog that I like, don't like or just out of thin air put the link there - that is solely my business and not any of the Google God's business. Why does Google even have to assign a PageRank to anything? I guess they can't figure out that if people go to a site in droves that the site might be popular? I have a blog at wordpress that has a PR of 7 but no one visits it. I am lucky if it gets 5 visits a week. On the other hand I have a blog at wordpress that is about 4 months old that has no rank but has over 500 visitors a day. Now as an advertiser which site would you put your ad or paid post on? A no brainer, right? Not according to the Google God, the PR7 site is "better" cuz we say so!

Go ahead Google God - get a life and quit taking bloggers livelihoods away from them.

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