Comments on: PageRank/AdSense Clarification – I’m not Funny

By: Marketing Consultant Ireland

Marketing Consultant Ireland — Mon, 19 May 2008 21:25:00 +0000

This is a serious conundrum – do I want to get a higher page ranking, this is assuming that adsense and PR are linked – and then let all the people who visit my site go and see the competitors

I know this thread is quite dead, but maybe someone has email notification and can let me know.

Cheers, Peter
PS my blog is at http://www.3r.ie/blogs

By: Steve Buscemi

Steve Buscemi — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 09:24:28 +0000

That’s good to know John, hopefully more $$$ over coming weeks as PR continues to fall ;-)

By: John Evans (Syntagma)

John Evans (Syntagma) — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 09:19:59 +0000

Caitlin, if you look at the small print at the bottom of the page you linked to, it says : “Googlerankings.com is in no way affiliated, sponsored or in any way the property of or responsibility of Google Inc.”

It seems to be a freelance outfit battening onto Google’s API which Google has now crunched. Could Google be retreating from the whole idea of PageRank?

As for TLAs and other text link ads, we sold more yesterday than any day in the last three months. The low rankings don’t seem to make a difference. Many buyers of cheap ads, like TLAs, don’t pay much attention to PR. TextLinkAds.com tell me that it’s business as usual.

By: Caitlin Fitzsimmons

Caitlin Fitzsimmons — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 22:13:55 +0000

Thanks for the help everyone. Unfortunately Google’s Page Ranking service is closed to new readers. You need a SOAP API key from Google and they aren’t giving out new ones as of December 2006. http://googlerankings.com/what_is_this.html

By: Jeremy Steele

Jeremy Steele — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 15:31:51 +0000

Caitlin – technorati rankings is completely separate from pagerank.

By: Caitlin

Caitlin — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 14:57:59 +0000

Thanks, Kate. Is it the same as Technorati’s ranking or does Technorati do its own?

By: Mariella

Mariella — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 10:24:43 +0000

It was funny! People missed the smiley after the sentence =(

By: Kate

Kate — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 14:14:34 +0000

Caitlin – the Google toolbar includes a page rank indicator, but I think you need to enable it. Alternatively, there are a number of sites which will tell you, so if you do a search for something like ‘page rank checker’ you should find something useful.

By: Caitlin

Caitlin — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 13:36:47 +0000

Can someone please explain to me where you actually see Google’s rankings? I would like to look.

By: John Evans (Syntagma)

John Evans (Syntagma) — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 11:33:35 +0000

b5media has a box on most of its sites offering to sell text links to buyers. As we now know these changes to PR were done manually “after review”, it seems Darren has been lumped into the whole b5 pot. That’s my guess.

Incidentally, I’m noticing that toobarqueries.google.com still has the old PRs standing, while toolbars themselves are showing the degraded ones. I wonder if a flick of the switch will put them all back on again.

Okay, I’m just a crazy optimist. :-)

By: Sapphire

Sapphire — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 05:58:18 +0000

I got that you were joking, but it’s not a stretch to think Google could punish people for removing AdSense.

That said, I notice you have an aff link to Text Link Ads, and so does Copyblogger. I’m wondering if perhaps that’s all it takes?

By: Jeremy Steele

Jeremy Steele — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 00:21:52 +0000

Heh “Adsense Decoded”. I love the spam you get here.

By: Jaime

Jaime — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 22:49:29 +0000

Watch this site.

It has a video tutorial that show exactly what you have to do to be succesful in adsense.

http://www.adsensedecoded.net.tf/

By: Rick

Rick — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 21:24:23 +0000

I dropped 1 full Page Rank in the crawl immediately after I removed AdSense from two of my sites. The number of sites linking to me had increased 25% on one site and 50% on the other.

Google may not drop pagerank if you use someone else or drop AdSense, but I believe they do RAISE pagerank of AdSense sites.

It’s all about profits – theirs, not ours.

By: Marc

Marc — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 15:54:31 +0000

I can’t believe no body has commented on “There’s no chance that this is the reason.”……. Really, can you say that with 100% honesty!. They are in the business of selling clicks, what’s to stop them from nudging someone up 1 or 2 spots if they have adsense running on their site.

One day, Adsense and Google will be required by law to be seperate companies……mark my word.

By: redwall_hp

redwall_hp — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 15:07:37 +0000

That’s the real reason Google is penalizing all things Text-Link-Ads! It’s an AdSense competitor! :D

Note: ” :D ” means “joke”.

By: tinymeme

tinymeme — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 14:45:56 +0000

I got it and I linked. I hope others didn’t think you were seriously considering this as the cause.

By: KimC

KimC — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 14:15:59 +0000

This reminds me of my favorite line in the movie “I Robot.” Will Smith is trying use humor to charm the female lead, and she turns to him with an icy stare:

“I’m sorry. Were you being funny?”

Will answers, somewhat taken aback:

“Apparently NOT.”

By: Blaine Moore

Blaine Moore — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 13:31:12 +0000

Keep joking; I think that it leads to even funnier situations than the joke itself (which was pretty good, you have to admit.)

By: NoviceSEO

NoviceSEO — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 13:16:46 +0000

I am showing you at a PR6 on three different computers from my location in Kentucky…. no PR4 showing here for your homepage……….. Same for CopyBlogger