I felt the need to clarify a commonly used word of late and create a new word for what is actually happening.
Penalizing a site - this term we view as a site being dropped out of the SERP’s (Search Engine Result Pages). Maybe Yahoo found some keyword stuffing or Google found you participating in cloaking, but they give you a +50 penalty where you add 50 to your current position and this is where your site appears in their SERP’s. Or they completely remove you from their index or stop indexing your new content. Either way, you’re being penalized in their results, where it all counts.
Penisizing a site - this term we view as a site losing length in their “tool”bar pagerank. This refers only to Google and is experienced when they make an update to their toolbar pagerank algo and said site owner loses visual size in their PR. We don’t view this as a penalty because what should matter to all webmasters is their standing in the SERP’s. If you have been penisized, but you’re still doing well in the SERP’s, then you are just fine. Don’t worry about PageRank!
The size of your PR is not proportionate to your results. For example, when someone searches for your site/company name and you are listed on the top, all is fine. PageRank is something that Google pushed on webmasters several years ago and people use it for performance measures. All you should worry about is how well your site is bringing in the hits through your advertising campaigns and/or organic traffic through search and social networks.
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[...] like dissing all other ads income. If you need anymore morale booster, read LinkWorth’s Penalizing or Penisizing? And to those biatches who are rejoicing because my PR is lower than yours, nah, my middle finger. [...]
I made the same decision days ago. As long as the $ keep coming in screw G@@gle and their PR.
[...] With all that is going on in the blogosphere about Google smacking blogs and sites on their page ranking, I haven’t been going around reading what webmasters or techie experts have to say about this. I know the feeling of page rank drop is not nice but I’ve learned to move on and focus on my blog’s content than crying over the green on my toolbar. Yes, I’m one of those who are ‘penisized’ and if you are wondering what I’m talking about, then you need to read what Wicko at LinkWorth has to say in his latest post on “Penalizing or Penasizing“… oh, now I know the difference! So before you think you are penalized, you may be just be a victim of penasizing… find out more here! [...]
This is really funny but it’s 101% true
Gee…..haven’t been starting to write for linkworth though (more rather of still not knowing how to use it until now), I love this idea of getting a pump like that at home to pump my PR… Yeah, u r right, who cares anyway?
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I love the attitude of Linkworth regarding the latest Google PR update, and Google in general. This is a great read for those who have “suffered” at the hands of Google’s latest buzz. PR shouldn’t be important to a site’s value, but it is so anyway. My PR has gone down one point (I’m now a PR5) - but my SERPs are better than ever.
So you’re saying I have a big penis as far as you’re concerned?
I find that oddly comforting, particularly since that guy who sent me an email promising to give me a larger one in exchange for $35 never did deliver.
Now, if only I could master the art of peeing while standing up.
[...] his blog post not too long ago, WICKO mentioned the possible side effects of over pumping: dizziness, [...]
HAA.. Kate, maybe I can make an animation for that. The first part of the question I’ll leave to your imagination!
Thanks Martin! I hate to see people lose money to the hands of someone else. Makes no sense.
I’m so glad to hear you recognize the difference. How refreshing.
Now, where to buy the pump…
It`s something I`ve said for a while now. PR is there for advertisers to see whether they feel it`s worthwhile placing ads on your site. As far as anything else goes give me a decent spot with my main keywords on the top SE Pages anyday. That`s what brings in most of the visitors.
I have been reading your take on G00gle and I find it refreshing. Thank you for recognizing this penisizing G00gle is doing to us. They want to lord it over the internet and monopolize the income we can all generate from advertisers! Selfish people!
Thank you LinkWorth for being good to us probloggers
[...] blog entry at Linkworth addresses it with some snark: Penalizing or Penisizing. It’s worth the short read, but this part captured my [...]
Yes Sasha, you are right. Of course, if you ask them, they’ll just “sphinn” it as “we’re making our results better”. Personally, I think their results are fine. I don’t think I’ve read one thing in a long time talking about how horrible their results are.
It should only be fitting to sell them at Walmart, since they seem to be the Google of the retail stores.
i lost my page rank too..
but the SERP is still very very good so i don’t worry about the PR thing..
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