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<rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Elliott Back's Blog - Latest Comments in Google Pagerank Falls on Paid Links, Blogs</title><link>http://elliottbacksblog.disqus.com/</link><description></description><language>en</language><lastBuildDate>Wed, 24 Oct 2007 22:13:13 -0000</lastBuildDate><item><title>Re: Google Pagerank Falls on Paid Links, Blogs</title><link>http://elliottback.com/wp/google-pagerank-falls-on-paid-links-blogs/#comment-3196217</link><description>Despite the fact that I got hit with a penalty, I think my Sandcastles approach works better. I can have links followed from my comments, and trackbacks.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Good community encourages links more than being stingy, and people who comment subscribe.</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Andy Beard</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 24 Oct 2007 22:13:13 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Google Pagerank Falls on Paid Links, Blogs</title><link>http://elliottback.com/wp/google-pagerank-falls-on-paid-links-blogs/#comment-3196218</link><description>I saw the phenomenon as it was coming yesterday. I was looking at the datacenters and saw the PR variances. Mine went down 2 PR points. I have a lot of no follows on my site as well but I still got hit.</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Jozzua</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 24 Oct 2007 19:51:23 -0000</pubDate></item></channel></rss>