Blogging Fingers Gets Sitelinks… With A PageRank 2
By Matt Jones on Apr 21, 2008 in blog news
Today is an exiting day because Google has given Blogging Fingers Sitelinks!
Blogging Fingers started way back on July 2nd 2007, which makes it over 10 months old. Since starting it has been penalized by Google, then sold for $6000, then forgiven by Google, then penalized again and now finally given Sitelinks, while still suffering from a severe tool bar PageRank penalty!
What a story!
You can view the Sitelinks in action by Googling Blogging Fingers or bloggingfingers, or just check out the screen shot below:
The penalizations mentioned above were purely tool bar penalizations to stop me from selling links that pass PageRank. The search engine rankings were not effected. However, there were other penalizations.
For example when I launched the Blog Monetization Strategies e-book with a contest, it went off with such a bang that Google penalized that page for gaining links at an unnaturally fast rate. You will see if you Google “blog monetization strategies” or even “blog monetization strategies e-book” there will be no sign of the Blogging Fingers page, despite almost all the other results being bloggers writing about the e-book.
For a brief time during the contest the page did appear at position number 1, so I can be sure there are no indexing issues going on.
All the same, getting Sitelinks with a tool bar PageRank of 2 shows Google can still love you, even when it pretends to hate you. I know you love me really Google.
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Unfortunately, it seems that Google is handing out sitelinks to tons of web sites now. I don’t think it means anything at all at this point. My site with a PR2 and 10 months old also got them. I read on another blog that a site that has been abandoned for 6 months also just got them
Wow, 10-months-old must make you a Grandaddy in the blogging world - it certainly gives hope to this little 3-month-old newb!