There is a buzz on the whole webmaster world after the recent Google Page Rank update that most sites trading links and writing paid posts have been penalized by having their Page Rank demoted. I went on bloghopping these few days and there are no signs of people stopping these activities! I got the message loud and clear from Kumiko’s post “Worried About Being Bitch Slapped By Google? Me Neither”.
One of the main reasons is that these activities are just a lucrative and simple way to earn money on the Internet or blogging. You can write up to three paid posts a day and earn easy money of minimum USD15 whereas if you depend on all advertising platforms out there such as Adbrite and Bidvertiser, you will only earn not even USD0.10 or nothing per day.
Also, Google Page Rank demotion does not only happen to a blog, it happens to most part of the blogosphere. This brought down the rank of the range of publishers. To explain more clearly, a whole range of PR5 blogs are now at PR4, which will not cause much difference to an individual since everyone is getting the same treatment!
People still cares about what their Google Page Rank is but they will not whine and cry on the demotion as they will still make their money the easy way other than those like me who are still at a PR N/A! 
Monetizing your Page Rank is the only thing that will make people proud of their Page Rank and a PR5 is nothing if you don’t monetize it by using advertising platforms that measure your blog using it.
Clearing your doubts
I guessed many will say “What do you mean by Page Rank is useless if we don’t monetize it? We can get more organic traffic from Google search engine!”
Well, you are wrong. Google Page Rank doesn’t have much effect on the search results of keywords. Search engine results page (SERP) is based on your search engine optimization techniques such as an optimal page title, keyword density, keywords in URL and so on.
The Page Rank is just a rank for the quality of links that points to your site. You can read more and understand Google Page Rank at “Google PageRank: What Do We Know About It?”.
Will you stop link trading and writing paid posts just because Google is going against it? With Google curbing these activities, there are some who dumped Google Adsense as a protest to this, will you do this? Also, how much portion of your online income comes from paid posts and link trading? Mind to share the percentage?
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October 13th, 2007 at 11:43 am
good post! I think the pagerank should be abolished! Hahaha
October 13th, 2007 at 1:44 pm
Maybe you need to promote the much improved Yahoo Search. First check out your search result standings though…
October 13th, 2007 at 3:01 pm
@ Mr. Rajawang
If Page Rank is abolished, how can those paid posts and link trading platforms measure your blogs? Using Yahoo Backlinks? Possible but it will be a big transition.
@ Derek Cordeiro
Promotion by me alone is not enough. It will need a huge effort to go against Google. Webmaster look at it as if it is the God of Internet.
October 13th, 2007 at 4:52 pm
Writing paypost is almost the 95% of my online income, without writing I almost earn nothing. Google never declare how they calculate the pagerank, and they seems to stopped increasing the rankings adi, I only hears PR dropping. -.- So I care less about it, I have N/A PR for my site already and I’ve got nothing to lose.
October 13th, 2007 at 5:30 pm
Yes, my paid posts income forms 90% of my online income. Even though I stopped writing for PPP, the income is still nice. Google is not disclosing the changes, yet.
Good spirit of a PR N/A blogger (just like me): WE HAVE NOTHING TO LOSE!
October 13th, 2007 at 6:02 pm
Well, I think if you have good PR then you have the better chance of gaining the reputation and keyword density is important but the PR is equally important too in placing of the pages in the search results. Because internal pages do get benefit of the homepage’s PR and if your pages get better PR then your post will rank higher than others….sweet and simple isn’t it ?
October 13th, 2007 at 6:25 pm
Yes, but PR doesn’t influence your search results for certain keywords. The element that influence it is the number of links linking to the URL and the anchor text used.
PR is just some kind of measurement of quality of the URL by calculating the quality of sites that are pointing in from.
October 14th, 2007 at 6:54 am
hurm, want to ask u all one question. I am an one month old blogger, and planning to use Paid Post as a main income for the future. And rite now, I still cant see any Page Rank for my blog.. So, what do u all think about this? do u think, i will still get to make request at PPP and approved or there will be no room for new blogger to make money using PPP?
plz help . tq
October 14th, 2007 at 11:05 am
You will need to wait for at least 90 days before you can get your blog approved on any paid posts services. Even if you begged or cry, they won’t let you in unless your blog is 90 days old or above.
The good thing about this is that even you don’t have a page rank after 90 days, you will still be accepted but you can only write posts with low pay.
October 14th, 2007 at 10:32 pm
I am not sure if you count paid links or some of the other sites like that but I had one blog that accepted an app with the domain at 5 days old. I had posts dating back a while as I imported them from another blog, but the content was there and they accepted it.
October 15th, 2007 at 11:05 am
Maybe they checked on your first post’s date rather than your domain age. This might be true as well. Maybe I should submit a ticket enquiring this matter.
October 15th, 2007 at 10:48 pm
google pR oledi update?
October 16th, 2007 at 8:03 am
It came and now gone. Have to wait for another three months.
October 16th, 2007 at 2:23 pm
Question is - start counting from which date? we will never know it as google doesn’t want to answer.
October 16th, 2007 at 2:59 pm
Life still goes on. Keep writing paid posts, who cares!
October 16th, 2007 at 4:14 pm
U seems to learn a lot about PR nowadays.. i just dun hope much for it..less expectiation, less dissapointment
October 16th, 2007 at 4:40 pm
If no doing link exchange, how we get the backlink? You are so lucky to have a higher PR on the other blog, at least you still got something…
October 16th, 2007 at 5:10 pm
@ Jalaj
Yes. Keep building links and hopefully we are on the right track.
@ MonkeyWong
Cool, like your style!
@ cbenc12
You can see more onit recently because there are a lot of buzz on it. Just trying to let you guys know though.
@ Sean
Write good contents. Make people feel like blogging your posts. I admit I am lucky but all my efforts are on this new domain now.