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Old 02-14-2009, 02:35 PM   #1
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Default Google slapped itself...

No joke, Google slapped it's own site for breaking the rules.

Turns out Google Japan was paying bloggers to write favorable reviews and when the word
got out, Google was embarrassed.

Google.co.jp got a page rank slap from a PR 9 down to a PR 5. Ouch.

Goes to show you that Google isn't afraid to slap BlueFart tactics, even if they do it
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Old 02-14-2009, 02:38 PM   #2
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Well it can even happen to the best of them I guess.

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Old 02-14-2009, 02:43 PM   #3
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That's a good marketing move. (After all we're talking about it.) You've got to admit they've got some creative people working there at Google.

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Old 02-14-2009, 05:18 PM   #4
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Ohh...

I'm sure they'll have their engineers manually adjusting that one in a few days...

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Old 02-14-2009, 08:54 PM   #5
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Google has pulled a few blunders lately, like when they labeled the whole Internet as malware including themselves. Good to see even the mighty take a few hits, makes me feel better since I have taken a few as well.

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haha, I love google...

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Oh that silly willy google....
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Wow, that's ridiculous that they even did that. Don't they have any control over that branch? You'd think that if it was Google it would follow it's own rules.

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"Do No er... Some Evil"

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(but punish your self if you get caught)

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Silly Google, Tricks are for Kids!

And PR9 to PR5...thats like dropping the nuclear bomb of page rank demotion.

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Old 02-14-2009, 09:22 PM   #11
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Looks more like a publicity stunt than anything else.

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Old 02-14-2009, 09:27 PM   #12
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well there you go, that's pretty ironic!

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"Do No er... Some Evil"

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(but punish your self if you get caught)
haha - yeah - but ONLY if you get caught!

It's that whole "it's not illegal until someone catches you" thing LOL!

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oh and I'm SURE the page rank drop will make such a HUGE difference to their bottom line - yeah right!

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I like to see this, it shows that even google themselves has to play by the rules.

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That's one of the funniest things I've heard all day!

Ha!

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Old 02-14-2009, 10:38 PM   #17
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oh and I'm SURE the page rank drop will make such a HUGE difference to their bottom line - yeah right!
Actually, they're really hurting in Japan. Yahoo Japan is kicking Google's butt. So they were willing to try anything to boost their image! Goes to show you that Google CAN do wrong.

Getting the "slap" sucks big time, I've experienced it myself (as I'm sure we all have or will at one point or another). Once I learned the "right" way to go about SEO, my sites took off on their own without resorting to grey or black hat.

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Old 02-14-2009, 10:48 PM   #18
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Looks more like a publicity stunt than anything else.
I was thinking the same as you and Eric Lorence here:

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Ohh...

I'm sure they'll have their engineers manually adjusting that one in a few days...
Sometimes businesses have to show people they mean business where no one is the exception to the rules. Even if it means penalizing yourself to show it.

You can bank on it being fixed soon ....

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honesty personified
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Old 02-15-2009, 08:29 AM   #20
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Really? Hmmm that seems funny. On hindsight though, it might just be a marketing ploy of Google. You know how creative they can be,

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I guess they are trying to get the stock price back up in light of this financial meltdown.
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Wonder if Google Japan was selling this service to merchants? That could be big trouble for them.

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PR slap means nothing. They should deindex the damn site or slap it down the SE rankings :-)
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I wonder how many new high PR backlinks this little stunt will generate them?
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