Comments on: Another one bites the dust… http://whatjapanthinks.com/2007/12/03/another-one-bites-the-dust/ From kimono to keitai; research Japanese facts and figures through translated opinion polls and surveys. Mon, 13 Oct 2008 04:34:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: Upcoming changes at What Japan Thinks » 世論 What Japan Thinks http://whatjapanthinks.com/2007/12/03/another-one-bites-the-dust/#comment-44303 Upcoming changes at What Japan Thinks » 世論 What Japan Thinks Mon, 17 Dec 2007 14:45:56 +0000 http://whatjapanthinks.com/2007/12/03/another-one-bites-the-dust/#comment-44303 [...] a recent post where I pooh-poohed WJT’s Google-slap, I have reconsidered my position and come to a completely different [...] […] a recent post where I pooh-poohed WJT’s Google-slap, I have reconsidered my position and come to a completely different […]

]]> By: Ken http://whatjapanthinks.com/2007/12/03/another-one-bites-the-dust/#comment-40705 Ken Mon, 03 Dec 2007 17:12:27 +0000 http://whatjapanthinks.com/2007/12/03/another-one-bites-the-dust/#comment-40705 Ken, good post. I didn't notice the fall in JT's page rank. Given that they were recently sold, I wonder how this affects the buyers. There was a post on the JT blog after the sale (http://blog.crisscross.com/2007/09/japan-today-acq.html) which mentions that the site had about 2 million page views a month, which seems a bit low to me. Japan Probe is also down to a PR of 3. I had not expected the penalties to be so widespread, though I suppose Google has a way of flagging sites and must then have people who go in to review them. In a sense, PR should really not be used to base the price of ads anyway. If I were a buyer, I would care about 1) Unique visits, 2) Page views, and 3) Where the visitors are coming from. I'm not sure what else would matter, unless you're buying for SEO purposes only. Ken, good post. I didn’t notice the fall in JT’s page rank. Given that they were recently sold, I wonder how this affects the buyers. There was a post on the JT blog after the sale (http://blog.crisscross.com/2007/09/japan-today-acq.html) which mentions that the site had about 2 million page views a month, which seems a bit low to me.

Japan Probe is also down to a PR of 3. I had not expected the penalties to be so widespread, though I suppose Google has a way of flagging sites and must then have people who go in to review them.

In a sense, PR should really not be used to base the price of ads anyway. If I were a buyer, I would care about 1) Unique visits, 2) Page views, and 3) Where the visitors are coming from. I’m not sure what else would matter, unless you’re buying for SEO purposes only.

]]> By: Charles http://whatjapanthinks.com/2007/12/03/another-one-bites-the-dust/#comment-40702 Charles Mon, 03 Dec 2007 15:34:08 +0000 http://whatjapanthinks.com/2007/12/03/another-one-bites-the-dust/#comment-40702 I recently noticed my own obscure blog lost 1 point of PageRank. It is perhaps accurate, as I don't get many incoming links, and I wondered how I ever got such a high rank in the first place. But I suspect the reduction is more due to a few rogue spamblogs ("splogs") that repost my blog entries in their entirety, and link back to my site. This is rather galling, as I have no control over what happens elsewhere on the net. I recently noticed my own obscure blog lost 1 point of PageRank. It is perhaps accurate, as I don’t get many incoming links, and I wondered how I ever got such a high rank in the first place. But I suspect the reduction is more due to a few rogue spamblogs (”splogs”) that repost my blog entries in their entirety, and link back to my site. This is rather galling, as I have no control over what happens elsewhere on the net.

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