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***mandy*** · 10-30-2007, 09:56 AM,

Quote:Andy Beard reports that Google seems to have made their third PageRank update this month. This one appears to have reversed some of the downgrades in PageRank seen by some sites.

We know that some of the PageRank changes were due to paid link selling,...However, not all the sites impacted in recent changes were selling links (several strongly deny this), so there may be other reasons related to the drop.

For example, one common theory is that Google might be penalizing for excessive cross-linking between sites. This is all speculation, of course -- and it could be that rather than penalizing for cross-linking, Google might simply not be giving as much credit to some links than in the past. That wouldn't be a real penalty (as happening in the case of paid link selling), but it could still cause a drop that's perceived as a penalty...

full article: http://searchengineland.com/071029-084449.php

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Quote: Courtney stopped by to let me know about what appears to be a real PageRank update that is in progress, if there can ever be a real update again.

Many of the blogs highlighted in the update just a couple of days ago seem to have reverted to their previous position...

full article: http://andybeard.eu/2007/10/pagerank-update-2.html

related topic: http://community.tuliptools.com/index.ph...731.0.html

sneakymagenta · 10-30-2007, 05:29 PM,

Mine stayed the same.

FiberGuy · 10-31-2007, 12:08 AM,

Here too... still a four. In our niche market, it's hard to get much higher than that.

**amy** · 10-31-2007, 06:28 AM,

Quote:one common theory is that Google might be penalizing for excessive cross-linking between sites.

Translation: rather than having my customers discover my other stores by clicking on a free link on one of my stores, Google would prefer that buyers discover the other stores by clicking on a paid AdWords link.

Quote:Mine stayed the same.

Our new stores went from unranked to 2's and 3's.