Well, the latest “page” “rank” update slashed and killed the last blog I had with any PageRank (my New York Traveler.net blog). So now all my blogs are 0s, in the eyes of the Lord of the Internet, Google.
New York Traveler.net 0
New York Renovator 0
Freaky Frugalite 0
Mrs. Mecomber’s Scrapbook 0
New York Traveler @ Blogspot 0
I Love New York Travel.net 0
miscellaneous (a new blog I started) 0
All 0! I am worthless, says the Lord of the Internet! Regard not the hundreds, yea, thousands of backlinks, authority, traffic, and content! I am worthless! O, unworthy meeeee……
booo hoooo.
Wanna know what’s weird? Everytime I start up a new blog, even before I have a chance, Google zaps it. Yep, 0. Most new blogs have a chance to at least get on their feet, ykwim? Most new blogs at least go through an “unranked” period of time. Not me! The Lord of the Internet targets me, right away! 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0! They hate me!
Back ‘atcha, you Google jerks.
Life is never dull, and exciting things just seem to always happen to me... why me... when I'm not running around the house fixing things, I'm a freelance writer for national media outlets like USAToday.com, Salon.com, and others. I've even been interviewed by TIME and The Wall Street Journal about blogging. Can you believe it?! Here is where I express my zany, creative, motherly side. 
January 2, 2009 at 10:22 pm
Maybe because you have many paid posts that have external links with a “do-follow” tag. Google does not like that.
January 2, 2009 at 10:47 pm
Uh, no. Because some blogs I run do NOT have any money-making things on them at all.
Still 0.
And when I start up a new blog, in a few weeks that’s what I get.
0.
January 3, 2009 at 1:35 am
who cares. Your blog/blogs look great! keep building relationships and keep driving your work with your passion. you are moving forward
January 3, 2009 at 4:42 am
Sorry, that sucks. Mine is just at 1 but I keep reading about how google will yank it away from people. I have puny page rank lol.
January 3, 2009 at 8:06 am
Mine are perpetually unranked 🙁
January 3, 2009 at 8:43 am
I wish we can understand how google judges blogs, some of my blog luckily got some, yet most have 0. and i’m working hard on them really…
January 3, 2009 at 11:33 am
It’s a mystery. Don’t lose heart. Mine are zero too. I look at it this way. Google doesn’t have negative rankings at least. Also, consider Alexa and Technorati. I bet you are going up there. I try to remember that millions of new bloggers join the blogosphere each day and that increases the data pool and Google extracts its rankings from a formula-NOT humans making evaluations based on the quality of your site or your writing. Each day your site is in competition against increasingly greater numbers of sites than the day before-so most of us should probably see our rankings going down rather than up. It would be different if the number of bloggers remained relatively stable.
January 3, 2009 at 12:48 pm
Google stock has been going down in price. That tells me something.
You are an excellent writer Rebecca. G doesn’t know what they are doing.
January 3, 2009 at 12:48 pm
Oh, no. They did another update? I’m not even going to look. Nope.
January 3, 2009 at 1:27 pm
please tell us Rebecca, why do you think this is? I have the same problem and I am afraid to even start another although I had plans too. Are yours all on the same hosting server? Mine are and I was wondering if that has anything to do with it. It sure is frustrating. My other sites (non-blogs) are all doing well but they are ones that are not even updated regularly.
uugghh
blessings, Penny Raine
http://pennyraine.com/blog
January 3, 2009 at 1:46 pm
I finally took the page rank checker off my toolbar - I got tired of thinking about pagerank, I haven’t checked mine in about 4 months, although, if you want a chance at pagerank, writing posts about the “google jerks” might not help, lol!
January 3, 2009 at 7:15 pm
Rebecca,
As always, I unfortunately don’t have a solution to your problem… I have a similar problem. The evil Google overlords despise my main, best-trafficked blog and have hit it and anything associated with it with PR zilch. I’ve had some luck with new blogs by disassociating them with my despised Google UserID, but there’s still some random hatred being dished out to me with the latest update. One small consolation for you, though, believe it or not, PR zero is better than N/A, as PageRank is not really an indicator of whether/where your posts will show up in a Google search for relevant keywords. On my two or three sites that have N/A (and one of those was banished to that status after achieving PR3 and being well indexed), the content has been virtually unindexed (de-listed?) in Google, despite my efforts through Google’s Webmaster tools… and these are sites with no paid links. Go figure.
Anyway, if my two cents worth counts for anything, I enjoy all of your blogs and could not care less what Google thinks of them.
Happy New Year!
Roxy
January 3, 2009 at 7:37 pm
Tell me about it! Nobody knows how the big G designates PR. Other blogs are just 3 mos. old and yet gained a rank of 1. It’s unfair!
Btw, your template looks nice and clean. Love it!
January 4, 2009 at 1:29 pm
I had the same thing happen. I started at n/a then went to 0 on the first eval. At the next update I went to 2. In October I went to 3, but then two weeks later it was 0 again, which is where it sits now. I know they updated the standards and made PR tougher to get, but what threw me was that mine dropped two weeks after going up at the regular update time. I did notice that I’ve gotten a lot more hits from Google bots.
January 4, 2009 at 10:03 pm
Hi Rebecca.
I totally agree with Karen and it´s so unfair!
You´re a very good writer and a model for all posties.
I try not to link my blogs where I do paid posts with the others and I also have two G accounts but I don´t know if that counts.
I was expecting a flat zero and now I´m very confused with this update.
Hope you get your PR back.
xxx
January 4, 2009 at 10:08 pm
I know how you feel and it is not good. I went from a pr3 to a ZERO recently. I don’t have paid posts or lots of ads so I guess they hate me too. I am completely confused myself. I like your blogs!
January 5, 2009 at 10:02 am
Thanks, Karen, Mize, and Heidi, for the encouragement. I am shocked that your blog got a zero, Heidi, especially since you have no paid posts. What on earth is Google doing?! Grrrr!