Why Google PageRank is unfair.
August 24th, 2008 | 489 wordcountI am convinced that Google PR punishes those small time bloggers like you and I and so many others if we sell links. A multi million — probably billion — dollar business wants to stop me, you and the rest of the blogging world from making our small bit of money a day with paid blogging. How greedy can a corporation get? Bloggers aren’t even competition for a giant mogul like Google, and yet they squash us anyway.
As my friend Aimey said, Google is the WalMart of the internet. What a title for it to have.
It isn’t even the fact that your site is black listed from Google — because it ISN’T — but the mere fact that they give the illusion that their bogus PageRank is important. That’s the kicker here. You can have a PR of 0, like I do and so many others, and still get a LOT of hits from google.com.
But what crushes us is their capitalization on the ignorance of advertising companies. You see so many companies wanting a requirement of at LEAST Google PageRank 2, 3, 4, etc — those being the opportunities that give the most money. They don’t understand that Google most likely has two PageRanks. One that is external that we all see, that’s the one that penalizes us, and one that is internal that actually effects how many times our website appears on their search engine and that the two PRs have nothing to do with one another.
I wish companies like Izea and others would do more on educating companies advertising with them about Googles corrupt PageRank system — that they got us bloggers by the balls with something that holds no true weight whatsoever in the actual internet world, except the power that these companies are willingly handing over.
Other than that it’s not going to stop their links or specific key phrases from appearing any more then they already do, regardless of what PageRank the website is.
What others have to say…
Tori AKA Swampbrat mentions in this post how she had a Google PR of 4 that went down to 0 literally overnight. Click the link to hear more of what she has to say.
And another good post by J. Scott AKA Supernova Splash really gives it to Google. I’m so glad people are speaking out about this. He talks about how Google pulls their PageRank numbers out of their ass and I really have to say I agree with him. LOLOL. He also brings up a lot of good points. I advise reading his post. 
And here, Cody Sortore from Cody Sortore Ramblings goes even further to explain to everyone in the blogosphere just why Google is unfair. He has personal experience with Google’s PageRank system and he seems to be very knowledgeable on it. I really am glad he chose to wrote about this. I would not miss this post if I were you. Very informative.
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I totally agree with you. I have a zero Page Rank now but I don’t care about it too much. The only thing that bother me is the same: some companies require high page rank for sponsored posts.
I had another blog and I was amazed that I had more hits from google while my PR was 0 than when my PR was 2. And I’m talking about A LOT more hits
Maybe the IZEA Rank will be more important in the future, at least I hope so.
I think they just started IZEA rank sometime early this year or late last year. It needs time to catch on, I think. But IZEA should be more aggressive in explaining things to the companies that choose to advertiser with them through us.
I think it should also be noted that Google has stated before that Google PR should not be used except as an indicator (a several months old indicator) of rather arbitrary links.
I think the way many advertising setups are run is the problem. Not only do we get screwed out of some of the higher paying reviews, but the selection is dismal at best. Occasionally they get a decent campaign thorns their way, but most of it is bogus internet services that offer very little.
Blogging will become a powerhouse for advertising. But we need options that suit our blogs (not just fit in through a great deal of force), and given access to the services that are foisted by these pay per blog sites.
I’ll be honest, I don’t mind advertising about dismal internet services that offer very little. Now that’s honesty at it’s truest form.
I just get upset when they aren’t being informed that Google PR is nothing to go by. Why isn’t IZEA saying this on their advertising page?
What Johnny Karp said about the hits from googles rings true for me too. I got way more hits from searches after my page rank dropped. It makes absolutely no sense to me how they are fooling these advertising companies into believing pagerank even matters anymore.
Also, why does google.com have such a good pagerank? THEY SELL LINKS!! JUST SAYING!
But it’s okay for them. Lolol. Because it’s THEIR PageRank.
ITA. What really irritates me is that I have requested reconsideration for my blog. I had a PR3 and then one morning it was a 0. I have deleted a ton of links and the rest are all No-Follow and I still have not received my PR back. There’s no excuse for them not to give it back and I’ve requested it several times over the last few months.:(
I know a few people who that happened to. What is Googles excuse?