Google Page Rank Penalties Not Real?
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Oh, it’s been a while since I used the phrase Google Lies, and since I believe I may now be legally bound to use it at least once a month, just click the link below to Andy Beard and read for yourself. Here’s a teaser:
It seems Google used their real dataset for PageRank for the Google Directory export, forgetting that they are telling their millions of users lies on their toolbar with manual penalties, which until now had no visible proof.
Google have the right to do whatever they like with their search engine, but this is another major demonstration of how Google are manipulating public and advertiser opinion…
Why is this important?
Because the idea has been floated that penalized sites are still passing PageRank at the rate of their “internal-to-Google” PageRank, not the visible PageRank. This is the first solid sign I’ve seen that this may be the case.
Since PageRank is SUPPOSED to be a measure of trust, you would expect SERPs to be affected by the penalty. However, this does not appear to to be the case; SERPs seem to be unaffected. I know one of my penalized sites has exploded with traffic from Google, in relative terms, since the penalty. If the penalty had cascaded into the SERPs, my Google-traffic should have gone away. In fact, the opposite has happened. For Florida Sun Dog:
October traffic from Google: 172
November traffic from Google: 177 (penalty received)
December traffic from Google: 540
January (to date) traffic from Google: 467
Yes, I’m on track for 5x the traffic from Google for January as compare to October despite taking a penalty two months ago. It’s important to note that December’s traffic from Google was less than 5% of total traffic, and thus far Google’s traffic is about 8% of traffic.
So, the penalty has hit me in the wallet, but not in my audience. I’ve been denied nothing except the ability to make money. So the world will just have to excuse me when I get frustrated with the insistence by Matt Cutts and his fans that Google is just protecting it’s search results.
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[…] In the past month, whispers have grown louder about the supposedly penalized sites continuing to pass PageRank, causing me to wonder if advertisers are receiving great deals from publishers that have reduced their prices in the belief that a lower toolbar PageRank passes less link juice. Later in the month, Andy Beard accused Google of manipulating public and advertiser opinion by showing that the Google Directory displays what appears to be the internal PageRank, which is different from Toolbar PageRank, and I demonstrated that search engine traffic on my websites has grown despite a significant penalty. […]