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Google Changing the PageRank Algorithm?

By on October 25, 2007 in Blogs

If things keep at this pace I might rename this blog to Daily Google Tips. Over the last two weeks we have been speaking about Google every other day. This time it is the PageRank buzz again.

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Both Problogger and Copyblogger, two of the most popular blogs on the niche, announced that their PR dropped from 6 to 4. Previously other authority blogs confirmed that they lost PR, but the suspect was towards paid links. Given that Problogger and Copyblogger are not selling links, it might be just a readjustment on the PR scale.

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Some people are arguing that since the PR drop is not generalized, it must be a slap from Google due to practices that conflict with its guidelines. Andy Beard suggested that the sites that got penalized were either selling links or exchanging them inside big blog networks. This is a feasible explanation given that most of the Weblogs, Inc blogs (Engadget above all) were penalized, and they do not sell paid links either.

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Here is a list that I gathered with massive blogs that supposedly lost PR on this issue:

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Update: It looks like mainstream websites that were selling links were also penalized:

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Do you know any other huge websites that got hit? What do you think is the cause?

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