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Google slapped itself...

by Ronnie Nijmeh
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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 blackhat tactics, even if they do it
themselves.

Article here:
Google Japan Apologizes For Awkward PR Campaign, Gets Punished With PageRank Reduction

Ronnie
#google #google slap #page rank #pay per post #slapped #sponsored reviews
  • Profile picture of the author ryanman
    Well it can even happen to the best of them I guess.
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  • Profile picture of the author Jonathan 2.0
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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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    • Profile picture of the author Eric Lorence
      Ohh...

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

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  • Profile picture of the author ChrisLang
    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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  • Profile picture of the author thepromoshop
    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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  • Profile picture of the author Josh Anderson
    "Do No er... Some Evil"

    - Google

    (but punish your self if you get caught)
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    • Profile picture of the author BlackWaterBlog
      Silly Google, Tricks are for Kids!

      And PR9 to PR5...thats like dropping the nuclear bomb of page rank demotion.
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    • Profile picture of the author NewbiesDiary
      Originally Posted by Josh Anderson View Post

      "Do No er... Some Evil"

      - Google

      (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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  • Profile picture of the author askloz
    Looks more like a publicity stunt than anything else.
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    • Profile picture of the author mmurtha
      Originally Posted by askloz View Post

      Looks more like a publicity stunt than anything else.
      I was thinking the same as you and Eric Lorence here:

      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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    well there you go, that's pretty ironic!

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  • Profile picture of the author NewbiesDiary
    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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    • Profile picture of the author Ronnie Nijmeh
      Originally Posted by NewbiesDiary View Post

      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.

      Ronnie
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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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  • Profile picture of the author Shane N
    That's one of the funniest things I've heard all day!

    Ha!

    Thanks for sharing this article.

    Best,
    Shane
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  • Profile picture of the author morwanneg
    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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    • Profile picture of the author Steve Sanchez
      I guess they are trying to get the stock price back up in light of this financial meltdown.
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  • Profile picture of the author Floyd Fisher
    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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  • Profile picture of the author baca85
    I wonder how many new high PR backlinks this little stunt will generate them?
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    • Profile picture of the author Ronnie Nijmeh
      Originally Posted by baca85 View Post

      I wonder how many new high PR backlinks this little stunt will generate them?
      Haha! Good point, baca85! Never thought about that.
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