I feel so unloved.
Did you know that this blog used to have a Google Pagerank of 5? Yes. A five, people! Then, after the famous Google “Rank Spank” it dropped to a 4. I was very happy with my four. Some of the biggest, most badass blogs out there are a 4. It’s good to be a 4!
And then, I decided to separate my blog from my family URL, where it lived in a little subdirectory. I wanted an easy URL to remember. Brand recognition and all that. And I did everything the internets told me to do – I had a permanent redirect in place, and I crossed my fingers, and hoped for the best. Well, the best did not happen. My pagerank did NOT transfer over, even though my blog is exactly the same as it was before – same fabulous, witty content, same awesome, good looking blog author. 
Google just updated pagerank, and my blog is now at a ZERO.
Le sigh.
Oddly, my review blog only dropped from a 3 to a 2, even though its URL changed as well. I can only assume Google did its update last week while I was in the middle of fixing a corrupted database and a wonky redirect. That’s some fucked up timing right there, I think.
Oh well. What are ya gonna do?
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LaLaGirl is the mother of a teenager and two young sets of twins. She's happily married, loves living in Colorado, and writes almost daily about married life, raising multiples, and parenting a child with autism.
Regardless of what this nasty Pagerank Monster says I love you!!!!
Candace’s last blog post..Sunday Snow Cones
Me, too! Listen to Stuart Smalley…he’s onto something.
Cheryl’s last blog post..The Ties That Bind…
I’m so over page rank. They don’t play fair so it’s not like you can judge a site by their rank anyway.
They can totally suck it.
I think you’re great! I don’t even know what a pagerank is so the whole concept is meaningless to me
Are you doing paid blogging here? It could be that you got penalized for that. Bummer about the loss of PR, man.
Amy’s last blog post..Books and Goodreads
Nope! I haven’t for a good year. I even went through and deleted everything from the past that could have been questionable.
I turned the green pixels off on my toolbar … I refuse to look at the evil green pixel strip!!
Loretta’s last blog post..14 years ago tonight ….
Mine’s been stuck at a 4 forever. Don’t think I’ll ever make it to five. Oh well. I think as time goes on, it means less and less. I think RSS subscribers and daily visitors are much more important.
Lisa’s last blog post..Peanut Butter Banana Bread Recipe
been at a zero for a while now…oh well…who cares!
goodncrazy’s last blog post..A little headband giveaway…
I was a 4 when I was on blogspot. When I switched to my own URL a couple months ago I had to start again from 0! Now I’m back up to a 3. Better than 0 anyway!
Memarie Lane’s last blog post..Confessions of an Expendable Blogger
Page rank is sort of like going to the library or a large book store. All those volumes of literature wanting to be read. What about the author – did she get intimidated by the stock of available reading material and decide her story was just not important? NO! She wrote it anyway. And so must you. Looks like you get lots of comments. For every comment, there must be at least 100 lurkers out there reading but not commenting. So, for this posting, you have 100 readers!