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Google Refunds My PageRank And Slaps John Chow Harder

February 26, 2008

Three months ago I wrote a post about how I was able to get Google to refund part of the -2 penalty that they had imposed on the PageRank of Court’s Internet Marketing School. If you missed that post, you can find it here: Why Google Refunded My PageRank Slap. At the time I suspected […]

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Google Makes Paid Link Stance Official

November 28, 2007

Edit: This apparently isn’t a brand new policy, so contrary to popular belief, Google already has an official position on this issue. They did recently change the wording so that their position applies only to links that pass PageRank. Read on to see how it applies to you, considering current circumstances.
As most of you know, […]

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RealRank™ Doesn’t Solve Anything For Bloggers

November 20, 2007

Everyone in the land has been talking about IZEA RealRank™ lately, hoping that it’s a replacement for PageRank. For those that aren’t familiar with it, IZEA is the parent company of PayPerPost and RealRank™ is a new system that they have come up with to rank blogs. They say it will make it so they […]

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Why Google Refunded My PageRank Slap

November 9, 2007

As you may know, CourtneyTuttle.com was part of the mass carnage PageRank slappage gone double slappage turned into a real update that wasn’t really that real. Within a one month period, this site was slapped from a PR3 site to a PR2 to a PR1, and then raised back up to a PR3 during the […]

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Now For The Real Toolbar PageRank Update

October 26, 2007

It looks like the real toolbar PageRank update is now underway folks. For all of you wrote that PageRank doesn’t matter in the last few days, you’re not allowed to check your new PageRank now.
You can find what your new PR is by visiting this PageRank checker. Update: Here’s another checker  and another […]