My blogroll post was done one year ago and I have never updated it. In fact I had even forgotten about it. Also, as you mentioned, my blog is no longer necessarily for regular readers. If I have any then great. If I don’t then I don’t care either because my goal is to get upwards of 80% search engine driven hits. I can make some money from that kind of traffic but I cannot from regular readers. Again this is all on my blog but I understand you have no interest or reason to read any of it. I don’t have the time or desire to pump out daily content any more. So this is the result as I have realized there still is value in my blog.

One final thing, I was upset because I had climbed back to a PR2 and then now back to zero for no apparent reason. If I had stayed at Zero the whole time it would have been more easy to understand. But why take me to a 2 and then back to 0 again? This is something only Google will ever know.

This will end here with my final apology.

I don’t mind people balking on my ideas and views; however, I do expect that people maintain a professional demeanor on my blog – holding myself accountable for that as well. The things I said back in response to you weren’t necessary either. So we’re equally wrong with how we interacted with each other.

In this case, whether you’re right or wrong… does it really make a difference? The end result is this, you feel like you don’t know why you lost your PageRank and I can only take guesses. If it was my blog there would be a few things that I would modify.

1.) Your blogroll states that you are willing to barter and or exchange reciprocal links with ONLY sites that are of good quality. To me, that means you’re only willing to exchange links with sites that could possibly have a high PageRank. Secondly, you admit while you would prefer to exchange with sites that are relevant to your own, you are willing to exchange links with sites that have no logical relevance to your own.

After reading that and then seeing that your blogroll links are not NOFOLLOW would indicate to me that you are in the business of bartering and exchanging links for the purpose of exploiting the PageRank system towards making an attempt to increase your PageRank.

Your blogroll mentions nothing about being a means for providing excellent external content to your readers and that was initially the true purpose of having a blogroll. As blogging become more and more popular, people instantly started to discover how they could use their blogroll to barter with other publishes to gain a better ranking, increase traffic, etc… Darren touched on the topic of having a blogroll very recently.

2.) I want to ask you why you display Yahoo Publisher ads on your blog? There is nothing wrong with Yahoo Publisher as I use them on many of my blogs as well; however, the most common trend within this niche as the reason why people use YPN is because they have been banned from Google AdSense. Just curious, are you banned from Google AdSense? If you were banned from Google AdSense, don’t you think that that is also yet another red flag against your online identity?

3.) You’re being very stingy and selfish with your in post linking. It seems like 9 out of every 10 links within your post either point back to your home page or point to another post you have written in the past. Rarely do you ever provide an external link pointing to an external source of great content.

If I find 10 pages on the Internet that are awesome and then I make my own page that provides an excellent presentation of the ten pages and provide and invite people who read the page I created with a link that allows them to expand further on each reference that I am talking about, that in itself creates value. The page that I created in essence kills 10 birds with 1 stone.

You don’t seem to have that writing style on your blog. Majority of the links found on your post simply link to something else that YOU have written rather than someone else. For what it seems, the only instance you provide an external link, that link simply points to a product that you’re pitching and trying to sell.

As far as your relationship with Google, I am sure that you have already done this, but just in case you haven’t you can get your blog right and then submit your request for reinclusion here:

How Do I Request Reconsideration

Additionally, you can get Matt Cutt’s take on the matter on his post titled, Filing a Reinclusion Request.

That is all I have for you man… I have invested way too much time pouring water on a bridge that you decided to burn. If you like me, read me… I am here to help. If you don’t then there are a million and one other Garry Conn’s in the little world we call the Blogosphere.

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I am just making light of the situation, I have no idea if these articles will help you, I didn’t even read them.

BTW, what’s up with this post where you go on a little sissy rant about how Google shafted you out of your PageRank while you openly admit and even contacted Google yourself telling them that you published sponsored posts and sold paid links?

In this post you act like a little child who had candy taken away before dinner. The best part of the post is when you said this, “For now I am going to keep the blog and post whenever I can. My subscriber numbers will go down, as will the readership – I know that. I have no idea what I will post, when I will post, or what the quality of my posts will be. Actually, you might have noticed that both the quantity and quality of my posts have been going down this year. The bottom line is that I just don’t care that much anymore…”

So, let me get this straight, because you’re going to act like a big sissy baby after having your PageRank stripped down to nothing, you are then going to abandon your blog and abandon your friends, readers and people who follow your blog all because of not having PageRank.

Well Bruce, to me it seems clear where your priorities are at. I already made it clear that my family, my friends, my business partners and myself come before anyone else. However, based on what you said in the above quoted text, it is totally clear that you don’t give a rats ass about the people who value and follow your blog.

Really, I have got to know… are you really going to shut down your blog because you don’t have PageRank? If PageRank meant so much to you then why did you take the risk and sell paid links and publish sponsored posts?

Here’s the thing, I don’t care what you do with your blog, if you sell paid links, sell Christmas decorations, etc.. It doesn’t matter to me. What does bother me are people that take the risk and do things that are against Google’s TOS and then after they get busted they act like innocent victims who have done no wrong. You took the risk, you got caught and now you want to act like a little child and not get what’s coming to you… real class you have there bucko. You might as well go ahead and abandon your blog since you have already made it clear that you have abandoned your readers.

All the luck to you in blogging, it seems you have a lot to learn. You don’t need to apologize to me. It’s your readers that you need to apologize to, many of which are my readers here.

Best Regards,
Garry Conn

Google often doles out PR slaps like a -2 or a -4 and sometimes they put you at 0 period. If you should be a PR2 and you are fighting a -2 penalty then your toolbar will show a PR0.

If you were a PR4 with your -2 penalty then you had a PR2 for a while but something must have changed since then. John Chow does break the rules and instead of a PR6 like Shoe and Darren…he’s a PR4. Why is that difficult to grasp?

You might be a standup guy but your acting like an obnoxious little troll.

I”m sorry Gary, but you don’t understand PR any better than anyone else. Thats my point. That is so evident and again in your tirade back to me you interestingly ignored YOUR paragraph:

“PageRank is given to you based off what people think about your blog. If people like what you write and they link to it and you have a good amount of incoming traffic and your content is considered as a hub point or a place of great value, then Google will give you PageRank. And to clarify, its not really Google who gives you the PageRank, it is the readers and viewers that give you the PageRank. Again, this all is under the understanding that you are playing by the rules.”

I say to you again, this paragraph is WRONG! It cannot be correct no matter how you spin it. A two month old BANS site or niche site (I have both) with very few links, very few visitors (I’m talking 100 to 200 a MONTH) cannot have a PR 2 or 3 according to your paragraph. Well mine do.

No you are correct that you don’t work for Google and no one does so it is frustrating reading on this blog and others all about Google and PR when I think it is clear that no one knows! I apologize for sounding rude and I guess being rude. I don’t know why but something just rubbed me the wrong way about this post since you seem to have been doing a lot of lecturing other bloggers lately and I firmly believe much of this post has incorrect info.

Thanks for your support though. Speaking so much about Day Job Nuker being frustrated, it kinda frustrates me to get a comment of that nature. As I blog more and more, my skin tends to get thicker and thicker. For those who have been following my blog since day one, I am sure you’ll agree… and Mark, I won’t discount you on that either for the fact that you have gotten to know me at a very accelerated pace. Indeed, I did bite my tongue on the last comment, but I could have bit it harder.

Oh well, live and learn.