Raven's Roads
Living an interesting life: the travels and musings
of motorcycling author Linda R. Moore

Unless RealRank really takes off, that is. Google has just demoted my PR4 blog to PR0 because I have paid posts on it. This explains why I only have access to nine opportunities this morning, all paying about $5, and 50% of them about stuff I would never write about. The only consolation is that this is most likely going to be happening to everyone, so nobody will be able to take opps. based on Page Rank.

PPP is introducing opps that allow advertisers to set their links as no-follow, which is supposed to appease the Google god, but probably won’t. For most of us, it’s too late.

I can’t help thinking that there is grounds for a lawsuit here: Google deranking certain kinds of blogs across the board without thought of the real content that most of them provide. There is something about it that smells wrong to me–discrimination, maybe. It’s just a thought at the back of my mind.

I will henceforth be boycotting Google for everything but maps at Markeroni, because there I have no alternative at this time. I will remove their ads and replace them with something else as soon as I can. At the moment I will continue with my guest posts on the blogger Blog Fairy account.

If anyone knows how to remove the Google search bar at the top of Firefox, please let me know. Likewise, if anyone knows of an alternative to Google Alerts, I’d like to hear about it.

Google is undoubtedly way too big for its boots, has become soulless, and I no longer have any time for them.

Just a few random posts

• Kiwis Might Fly by Polly Evans (0)
• Mentions (0)
• Is something better than nothing? (1)
• Turlock (6)
• Yellow flowers (2)

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