Maybe someone noticed what’s going on with google. Within the last few days everywhere in the sphere people noticed changes on the PR (PR means PageRank) of their sites. weblog.karnaya.de also lost 2 point of PR, falling from a PR4 to PR2, some days ago it was PR3.
Some famos sites lost their PR (another listing):
www.zeit.de 7 5
www.golem.de 6 4
www.netzeitung.de 6 4
www.etracker.de 8 5
www.netzwelt.de 8 5
www.brigitte.de 6 4
www.kulturkurier.de 6 4
www.heise.de/tp 7 5
www.geo.de 6 4
www.boerse-online.de 6 4
www.wissenmachtnix.de 4 2
www.finanznachrichten.de 8 5
de.internet.com 6 4
www.taz.de 6 4
www.impulse.de 6 4
www.hitflip.de 6 4
www.internetworld.de 6 4
www.macwelt.de 7 4
www.chip.de 7 4
www.washingtonpost.com 7 5
www.forbes.com 7 5
www.suntimes.com 7 5
www.sfgate.com 7 5
www.statcounter.com 10 6
www.engadget.com 7 5
www.searchengineguide.com 7 4
www.searchenginejournal.com 7 4
So, what happend in the meantime? Discussions are ongoing, but nobody really knows the truth. It appears to be true, that paid-blogging or paid links are an important criterion for the latest PR-changes. I’m still not selling textlinks, but I wrote some Trigami-reviews. That seems to be the reason for my decreasing PageRank, at least most of articles dealing with this issue are sure of a negative side-effect of Trigami-Reviews (PR-1).
Google stated some time ago, that paid links are more or less “on a blacklist”, means: google wants to fight “paid link love”. Some month ago, Google invented the “report paid links”-functionality in Google’s webmaster console. That means: if someone thinks you have paid links somewhere on your site, he/she/it can could report your site and obviously your PR will be lowered. It’s not enough, that every idiot, who has an google-account and knows, that he/she/it can help you losing your PR. Congratulations, you lost!
Not only morons are responsible for the decreasing PR, but also Google itself. Google abuses its market position (weblog.karnaya.de: ~80% of users are using Google) to set up rules. You have the choice: either you get money for paid links and reviews (trigami, you remember?) and you lose your PR, or you play Google’s game. IMHO there’s one word in this world describing the whole situation perfect: braindamaged. The content of this blog is the same as before, the posting frequency is good, or even getting better, and there are about 1 – 3 reviews/month, but over 25 posts, which contain no fucking paid links or ads, but Google AdSense-Ads! Of course, Google AdSense-Ads are ok, but no Ads of competitors? How paradoxal is that behavior?
It’s easy for me: I hate if someone wants me to play a game with rules set up by the other one. So: I’m going to find a better, alternate search engine without dumb condition and I will continue doing, what I want, on my {server,blog,site} – the only dumb fact is: high PR = more money. Well, go away! Earning less money is better than nothing, right?!


Momentan gibt es glaube ich eines, was mich vor dem totalen Chaos bewahrt: heiße Schokolade, bzw. Schokolade in sämtlichen Variationen.
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