Smacked down by Google

Well, last week my blog got the Google spank. In a split second, my site went from a Pagerank of three to a big fat ZERO. Ouch.

I know this doesn’t mean much to most people, but hitting three a few months ago felt like a really big accomplishment. You see, Google “ranks” pages through their Pagerank, which rates sites between zero and ten (ten being the best - only sites like Amazon, Google, eBay and such have a ten).

A high Pagerank means a number of things, many of which Google will not divulge. To me, as a blogger, a higher Pagerank means that I can sell advertising for a higher price, thus meaning that I can afford to blog more often (not to mention that I’m motivated to blog more often - yes, sadly I am extremely money motivated).

But alas, for some reason the Google Gods have decided to spank me down to a big gnarly zero. This could be for a number of reasons, but it’s not because of my traffic. You see, my traffic has not changed at all, so there’s something funny going on.

Anyway, this spanking has given me some insight into my blog. I have been trying to rein it in, and keep things productive and more focused. But if that strategy isn’t going to help me, I’m going back to the old format. I’m going to talk about what I want to, when I want to, and not worry about trying to make the Google Gods happy anymore. Don’t worry, friends. I’ll still be bringing you the best stuff I can. But I might be inclined to write more random shite now too. Stuff like this. Stuff so inconsequential that I shouldn’t even be writing it - but here we are.

Thanks for tolerating my rant. And now back to our irregularly unscheduled programming…