Google Page Rank Rage May Lead to Goo Gone

Can you win a fight with City Hall? Can a bunch of bloggers fight Google over page rank issues? For the uninitiated, a blogger's Google page rank can determine whether or not you get to run ads that pay well and/or are about interesting subjects. My page rank is 3, so my most plentiful advertising opportunities are for services that will sell you term papers (see my opinions on this at People Who Need Slapping) and payday loans (see Usury). But I'm a good American, and I think that in a few months, with the help of you dear Internets, I'll get more traffic and more links and I might improve my ranking and my options.

In the meantime, I'm watching and learning. Google recently changed its page rank system so that bloggers who take on advertising beyond Google Adwords and Adsense are hurt mightily. For some bloggers, their blogs are their primary source of income.  Ouch. You can read more informed opinion on this at other blogs, including I Think, Therefore I Blog, Good Enough Mom, Sassy Southerner. Table for Five. And a zillion more blogs. To show my support, I've added the Yahoo Page Link badge to my page, but if it keeps losing 830+ links and doing silly math, I may remove it.

I thought about this a lot today while I was driving to see my parents (my father had to go the ER again today but is okay), and I have to say I don't know how easy it will be to defeat or even change Google. After all, it's not just a search engine. It's a verb. Does Google need happy bloggers? Google needs happy advertisers.

But the advertising brokers, such as Pay Per Post, do need happy bloggers. In fact, all the advertising brokers need happy bloggers, and the brokers who can make bloggers happiest the fastest will get the biggest and best bloggers to offer to their clients. They should be MOTIVATED. Isn't the free-market system wonderful? I'm a believer. So I'm thinking that since the solution is unlikely to be with Google, it will be with the advertisers.

Am I Suzy Sunshine? Or an economics genius?

I checked out Pay Per Post tonight to see if there were any advertising opportunities that appealed to me (none in my page rank range), and I came across some good news: They're experimenting with a new page rank system: Goo Gone. (Get it? Google Gone?) If this isn't the answer, at least it's a sign that somebody is trying to come up with a solution.

Whatever it is, please do it quickly. Make it easy. And give me a higher page rank!

Comments

[jae]

I don't know that I'd call mine an informed opinion, per se, but I share it none the less. :)

But you are quite right in your post. Well said.

[Aurelius Tjin]

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