I Got Googled

Today I became the latest victim of Google's "fair Internet practices". My tiny, can't-even-see-under-a-microscope section of the Internet fell under the eye of the Sauron of the Internet, Google. My totally fair and accurate Google page rank of 1 got shot down to 0. In reality, my little space on the Internet probably only gets enough traffic to warrant of rank of 0, but there is a huge problem with that rank: it's not accurate at all. In fact, it's a slap in the face and a stab in the back by Google.

My blog does not get much traffic. I think it might get 10 visitors a day and 5 of those are me. However, despite all of that, I always had a PR of 1. Then, just this last Monday, I started doing paid posts from PayPerPost. For those who are not familiar with PayPerPost (PPP), it's Google's only big competitor on the Internet in terms of advertising. For some reason, Google doesn't feel like there is enough room on the Internet for more than one big advertiser, so it is trying to take PPP out. I am the latest victim and there are plenty others. Explain to me, all wise and powerful Google, how I can have a page rank of 1 with no traffic for almost a year then, when I start doing PPP, with still no increase in blog traffic, I get a page rank of 0 all of a sudden? Explain to me, omnipotent Google, how your ranking system is fair, when it appears to not be taking in anything related to a blog's traffic when you assign them a page rank? Would you like another example, Google, to help those money-stuffed brains of your start processing this?

There is a blog out there on the Internet at ramblingmom.com. The owner of that blog has been blogging on it for almost a year and half now. At one point, she had a page rank of 3 and rightfully so. So had all kinds of traffic. At the same time, she had been doing PPP for almost 9 months and Google didn't seem to have a problem with her page rank and paid blogging. However, PayPerPost was growing in popularity and Google got a little scared that it's stadium-sized pockets full of money might have 1 or 2 less $1000 dollar bills in them. So, Google set everyone that had paid blog posts on their blogs back down to a page rank of 0. Why the sudden change? Well according to Google, what they did had always been according to their policy. Oh really? Then why did Google ignore 1000s of bloggers for months and then all of a sudden dig up a supposed policy and set their PRs to 0 just when PPP was getting big? Do I have you thinking yet, Google? Apparently, Google won't care enough about my site to answer me, but they care enough to set my PR to 0. When I started doing PPP on Monday, my no-traffic blog had a higher PR than super-busy ramblingmom.com's PR. Can anyone explain the "fairness" of the Page Rank system? I would sure like to know how a system to rank a site's popularity can be so completely flawed and have nothing to do with popularity or traffic at all.

Thank you, Google, for setting my straight and giving me a "fair" page rank. You sure taught me the error of "my" ways. Please continue, Sauron, I mean, Google, to make the Page Rank Internet ranking system as "unbiased" and "accurate" as possible. Most of all, thank you for playing fair in the Internet advertising business.