On 11th of April i was shocked to see that my Page Rank disappeared again. Now it shows the N/A-Sign which means Not Available.
At the moment i see only one clear link with the drop or disappearance of the Goggle Page Rank - Entrecard Paid Ad System.
I began to get very active in Entrecard on 4th of April. At this time i also accepted the paid ads (in the beginning accidently, later only for persons who drop cards on my blog ;-) ).
I can only guess that Google doesn't like it when a website is "sponsored" with paid ads.
Even when i don't get paid by these ads.
If you move with the mouse over one of the Entrecard's "ads", you can see if it is a paid ad. At the end of the link it's written "paid" instead of "Entrecard".
It seems to be the same like with the PayperPost-Button which many bloggers use and afterwards their Page Rank drop or disappears completely like in my case now.
So i decided to start with PayPerPost, too, but continue to drop Entrecards in the next days again (at the moment too busy with our newborn son and with finding a new apartment until May).
Sorry, if i didn't click on the blogs from your Entrecard these days. I will start from tomorrow on again!!
My Question is now:
Has anyone the same problem in the last days since Entrecard started their Paid Ad Campaign?
And a second question would be:
Are the possibilities to prevent this kind of downgrade (does the nofollow-code work in this case, how to use this code?)
Hope some of the Entrecard members can help me and i guess if this happens to other members, the comments will help them, too! Thanks for every comment!
I don't think Entrecard paid ads affect your Google PR. PR is affected by a lot of factors especially the quality of internal links that link to you , and the number of external paid links from your site. Adgitize CMF, Project Wonderful do paid advertising but the websites/members have great PR's. Mine increased although I don't accept paid Entrecard ads except those who have dropped EC on me before.
ReplyDeleteI do accept paid posts and I make sure the links are attached with the no-follow tags. No -follow works if you know how to attach them properly. It instructs search engines like Google not to crawl those links thereby not affecting your PR.
But attaching a no-follow code to your whole site is only an option if you don't want your site to be searched and listed. What you may need is to attach the no-follow tag on your external paid links. But if you want that for your Entrecard, that I think will be difficult. You need to know the code used by Entrecard for the paid advert so you can attach the no-follow code.
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ReplyDeletePR is not a live number. In other words google only updates PR every 3 months or so for all websites across the web. Your PR will not change in between updates. The last update took place on April 2 and the next one will be sometime in July.
ReplyDeleteI am active on EC and accepted their paid ads from day one and my PR went from 0 to 3 on April 2. For what it is worth.