I Got Google PR Slapped For Taking Time Off

July 30, ‘08

I know I have not posted on her much lately. I just have not felt like blogging and I took some time off. I have been relaxing, playing golf and trying to stay off the internet as much as possible.

Well it looks like while I was on my little vacation that Google decided to update it’s PR.

Before I went on vacation: PR 3

After vacation: PR 0.

Google kicked me in the nuts just because I decided to not sit on my computer for hours on end and actually went outdoors and enjoyed the sunshine, birds and bees for a couple weeks.

The PR rank dropped has killed my traffic and Adsense earnings. I was making $15 a day before. Now. I think I have made .50 this week.

So much for all the hard work I put in for the last year making hundreds of posts. All that efford went down the crapper just because I took a couple weeks off.

So….no more worrying about PR. I have no more desire to keep it up. I will just blog whenever I feel like blogging.

  • Written by Adam
  • Category: Misc
  • 3 Comments

3 Comments, Join The Discussion

  1. Comment by: Jonathan in The Limelight
    On: July 30, 2008 at 7:56 am
    # 313
  2. Well let’s be fair, the pagerank slap has nothing to do with your adsense earnings, adsense doesn’t care what your pagerank is as long as you have visitors coming to click.

    Jonathan in The Limelights last blog post is about…Why Wal-Mart Is Evil And What You Can Do About It

  3. Comment by: Adam
    On: July 30, 2008 at 8:59 am
    # 314
  4. Higher page rank brings in more organic traffic. Lose page rank, and you lose organic traffic.Just ask John Chow.

  5. Comment by: ohiit
    On: July 30, 2008 at 1:30 pm
    # 402
  6. Ouch, I feel you. But anyway you should not worry too much. The internet out there is too competitive. From what you said blog when you feel like blogging isn’t a good idea. It is just like you feel like helping when you are in a good mood. Don’t ever think that way. Think positive. If you want to enjoy blogging. Do it the right positive way. Anyway everyone have different opinion so you aren’t wrong about it but it takes time to learn the mistakes. Till then take it easy.

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