Google Pulled The Plug On The Page Rank 10 Experiment

Well so much for the PageRank10 site reaching their goal of PR10 and my chances are out the window from owning the site if it reached PR10, not that I was anywhere near close to being the top referrer. This page rank update came unexpectedly as was less than the usual 3 month period and seems to have struck hard on some websites. PageRank10 had about 98 days or so to go in their experiment at the time Google decreased their rank from PR6 to PR3....ouch. Don't feel bad, I also got stung on one my sites which went from a PR6 to a PR3 too. It's disappointing but PR is never guaranteed anyway. PageRank10 stated on their site that they believed the reason could be because of paid links because otherwise it hasn't affected their serps ranking, just the visual PR. Seems lately paid links has been an issue with Google and they have been penalizing sites because of it.

Now PageRank10's strategy is to build more backlinks than Google UK since it is a PR8. They have over half million backlinks while Google UK has close to a million. They want to find out if having the same amount of backlinks will give them equal pr. If you would like to join in their quest plus get your site listed free in their search directory then give them a visit. This will be interesting to find out though somehow I don't think its necessarily the quantity of links you have but rather the quality, as I've learned from experience. Maybe they should try this approach in their next experiment.