By Rich Ord
Published Thursday 25th October 2007
Reprinted from: WebProNews
----------------------------------------------------------------Another under-the-radar-of-the-real-world blog firestorm erupted yesterday over high profile page rank drops. Google dropped visible PR of many blogs and mainstream news sites presumably as a penalty for selling links.
No one except Google really knows for sure why PR dropped for these sites but it certainly looks like an extension of September's
paid directory massacre. This time Google targeted some well-known sites in the search marketing world and mainstream news too.
Sites include niche blogs like Search Engine Journal, Search Engine Roundtable, ProBlogger and nationally prominent sites such as WashingtonPost.com and Forbes.com. (
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>>> Should Google penalize sites that sell links? Comment here. The reactions around the web fall into four categories. Again...
these are not my opinions, just a synopsis of what I have read from hundreds of comments in blogs, articles and forums.
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