One of my PR4 has been demoted to PR2. Looks like Google is back to slapping PR demotions again.

My PR4 site was doing paid posts as well as Text Link Ads so that’s not surprising. I have been doing that for months. I fully accept and expected that. However what I did not expect was what Google did to other new bloggers.

Take the case of Xyiry blog which was just award PR3 in the last PR update.

Excited over the new PR update, Xyiry who was already a PaidPerPost (PPP) member began to grab the higher ranking posts which he could not touch the last time around. I even told him that he’d be safe until the next round of PR update. Just yesterday, Google demoted his blog’s PR 3
-> PR 1 !! Whoops, my bad. It’s surprising because all that was done in the space of 2 weeks. (New PR 3 blog -> violation detected -> demotion to PR 1)

The thing to learn from here is that Google PR updates are now not on a fixed schedule. It seems they are doing it as and when they please. So beware !! Posties who think they escaped the Google bitch slapping
update until next year, THINK AGAIN!!

I for one am thinking hard as to whether I want to do paid posts on my PR3 and PR4 blogs. I don’t want to incur the wrath of Google so most probably I won’t. I’ll have to look for some other ways of monetizing those blogs.

Suggestions anybody ?

PS: Xyiry’s blog only has PPP and Smorty sponsored posts. No TLA or LinkPost.

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