CashQuests posted an interesting piece today about the possibility of Google abandoning PageRank in favor of a different strategy, much to the exclusion of paid text links. While I believe the post was meant more to elicit a reaction than make a serious case for that side of the debate, it did get me thinking.
Text link ads are currently my biggest moneymaker, and a sudden cessation of Google’s PageRank system would likely have an immediate impact on my ability to make money online. Though it’s been 5 months since the last PageRank (that boosted my backpacking blog from PRO to PR4 overnight), I believe the delay is the result of updates being made to the algorithm to detect or place less emphasis on paid text links.
Regardless of changes to Google’s PageRank strategy, I’m confident the “make money online” community is so strong at this point, it will adapt and evolve to whatever challenges come their way. People are making thousands, if not millions, of dollars from text link ads. For those of us focused on earning some pocket change online to fund our travels, we need only continue to subscribe to a few of the leading moneymaking blogs to see how they adapt and change.
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I was wondering the same thing awhile ago, actually. Who knows what’s taking so long this time around but it did cross my mind that maybe it’ll never be updated.
If Google were to ditch PR that won’t have any impact on the fact that companies still want to advertise on websites. It’ll just make it more difficult for them to determine which ones to choose.
Many people who sell links now do so based on a high PR alone. Many of these sites are pretty shitty. I think ditching PR would force people to improve their sites in order to sell links and might make the net better overall.
Companies will always have marketing budgets and will still need somewhere to spend it online, PR or no PR.
thnx…..