A few weeks ago, the mighty lord of the internet Google dropped one of my blog’s pagerank to 0 and I’ve learned that it’s because I’ve joined some Paid To Blog programs most specifically PayPerPost.
After the drop, I found out that Lord Google and PayPerPost are engaged in a serious war which affects, most unfortunately, all PayPerPost bloggers or posties. Lord Google has been busy targeting PayPerPost blogs dropping their pagerank to 0 as they encounter them. A drop to pagerank 0 means these blogs will not be eligible to many PayPerPost opportunities rendering the blog (almost) financially incapacitated.
Not being able to get opportunities really affected many PayPerPost bloggers. Many of them (from what I’ve read) are stay at home moms and single moms who earns a little income from PayPerPost opportunities. It’s unfortunate that Lord Google does not care nor pity these bloggers. Lord Google and his minions argue that these paid post or paid reviews are just being used by advertisers to gain pagerank to their own sites and are just buying links from these blogs. That maybe true but can’t they just alter their algorithm to exclude links from getting pagerank from a detected paid post? Since most, if not all, paid post are disclosed Lord Google’s bots can easily differentiate it from normal content if programmed to do so, right? I’m asking this because we all know that only geniuses can work in Google Heaven, right?
I think it would be better for everyone if Lord Google can adapt its system based on how it is being used by the public because, as human beings, people will learn and find ways to try and beat it. An example would be DIGG. Did you know that there are now sites that pay members for digging articles in DIGG? People will find ways of beating a system and will try to make money from it. Lord Google, like a good MMORPG developer, must try to adapt and update their system to combat these things. If Lord Google can detect and penalize a link at link level then only the advertiser will get hurt and not the blog or site where it was placed. If that happens, advertisers will be forced to stop buying links and might even seek legitimate ways of gaining search engine ranking.
I don’t know if what I’ve suggested would be hard or easy for Lord Google to do but I feel that it’s a much better solution than dropping a site’s pagerank to 0. Many, if not most, of these sites are great sites and I’m sure that they’ve worked very hard to increase their pagerank to where it is before the drop, so dropping their pagerank to 0 is just too harsh and it doesn’t solve the problem. It only stops it for a moment.
Anyway, since it is still a Lord Google dominated internet there are only two things a site owner or a blogger can do and those are conform with Lord Google and not to conform with Lord Google. In the subject of taking back my pagerank, I have decided to conform with Lord Google. I may not like it but the reality is almost 50% of my traffic comes from Lord Google and I feel that it is unwise to anger the Lord Almighty. Let’s just say that it’s a compromise.
Right now, I’m just waiting for all my PayPerPost post to mature which is 30 days after approval and then I’ll nofollow links all of it. Afterwards, I’ll apply for re-inclusion and hopefully get my pagerank back.
