As always, I am not shy about testing new services and probably some of my PageRank was hit due to testing Intellilinks and Teliad which are both services that sell “links” from your site to advertisers.  So I expected my PageRank to be impacted as a result of my research and experimentation with monetization through backlinks.

What I am curious about is how the PR2 will affect my site traffic, will my site have less organic search traffic as a result of a lower PR?  I am curious to know what minor changes I will start to notice about the site (if any) or if I see a drop off in advertiser interested now that the site is a lower PR.

Truthfully, I don’t really care about PR that much overall.  I care about writing quality posts and providing great information about blogging tips, technology and gadget news, game reviews and movie reviews.  I only care about the information I provide and whether my site is a valuable resource to readers that is entertaining and enjoyable to read.

In the meantime, I will let my readers know if there is any noticeable impact to the site from having a reduced PageRank.

-Dragon Blogger

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From these stats listed above:
My Wanderer Thoughts blog is same Page Rank as PFTFF blog which should not be possible. The PFTFF has 25x more results on the web, 8x more yahoo backlinks, almost twice as good Alexa rank and yet has the same PR2. Meanwhile Dragonblogger has 5x More backlinks from Yahoo, better Alexa rank and more results on the web than Wanderer Thoughts and is still a PageRank of 0.

If Results from the web was hugely important, then there is no way Wanderer Thoughts would be a PR2. Then again my Rock Along Productions blog is a PageRank of 4, and it has less links, hits and alexa rank than all of these blogs.

The reason why my blogs are penalized is Paid Blogging hurts your PageRank, everyone knows it. Its a shame though because of the double edge sword, you need a high PR to score better opps, and doing paid opps hurts your PR. I continue to try and model my strategies to match Damien Riley’s but he has almost two year lead on blogging over me, so I wish I could tell my readers that I know how I achieved a Google PR and the best way to say this is:

Web Sites without paid content will automatically have higher PR than if you have a disclosure badge, or do PPP or PayU2Blog posts. This is why Rock Along Productions and Wanderer Thoughts which do no paid content or posts have a PR of 4 and 2 respectively yet have less than 30 unique visits per day in comparison to Dragonblogger.com which has over 300 unique visits per day.

The odd thing is my personal blog does do paid posts, SocialSpark and PayU2Blog and it still has a higher PR than my Dragonblogger, so this throws a wrench in the works. Dragonblogger is the only one that has done PayPerPost opps though, so does Google specifically penalize PayPerPost blogs?

Just some of my thoughts and comments.

-Dragon Blogger

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