I’m a little late on this I know but Problogger has poped back to a page rank of 6 from the dreadful deduction down to a 4. What was Google thinking when they hit him with the penalty. Immediately everyone thought that they were getting hammered for having basically a link fest between their blogs but now it doesn’t look like that at all. Apparently Darren Rowse called them up and gave them a piece of his mind or at least that’s what I’d like to believe.

Now he’s back to that page rank of 6 and why not? I was thinking after my last post, hey Google basically has a huge link circle set up with their sites and blogs, buying up sites and placing links on them, are these considered purchased links? Apparently they just don’t like the companies that sell links and make their algorithm worthless. After all we all know that Google won’t penalize you for linking in between sites now, (maybe) at least they won’t penalize Darren, but the selling links thing is a big no no. Google has slapped every big link selling site and the big link sellers to go along with it.

On the other hand I did notice that Yahoo is now a page rank 9? Is that because they are selling links Google, really now? Or, is it because they haven’t taken the text link sellers out of their search results like you? OK the cloaking thing maybe? Anyhow, I feel like I have to talk about page rank even though it really doesn’t have any effect on traffic to a site, for non other than the fact that it gets everyone so fired up. I guess it’s a sign of internet maturity for some that work so hard on their sites and understandably so, that’s why Google invented page rank in the first place. The single greatest piece of link bait in internet history.