Watch out our beloved Godaddy has been hit with a curse!

Yep, that’s right, Google is now removing PageRank from domains that are parked at Godaddy. See video below for test results.

What does this mean?

- You can’t park your domains at Godaddy any longer and expect to retain pr.
- You can’t buy deleting domains from appox. 85% of Godaddy’s inventory for seo purposes (big boo hoo for me here!)

What am I going to do about it? (you do it too!

- I told my account rep at Godaddy about it and suggested they do something to mask Godaddy Parking.
- I reported it to Godaddy’s developer comments desk.
- I am TESTING to see if PR will come back!

What am I testing?

- I purchased 5 domains today that are parked at Godaddy. Once they drop into my account I will set them up as either Wordpress blogs or Joomla Sites, wait a month, and see if the Page Rank Returns.

It would be wonderful this is a temporary PR drop, and I have my figers crossed!

STAY TUNED!

(oh the joys of internet marketing, am I the only dork our there who actually tests shit like this? LOL)

I am really embarresed that I didn’t know this, but here is a REALLY easy way to check to see if the site you intend to purchase is a redirect (which lends itself to fake PR).

By using the “info” search query term before the url, for example, info:www.seonitro.com it will bring up the site that is in the index for that URL. And you guessed it, if it isn’t the same as the site you entered, then it is a redirect. Now not all redirects mean fake PR, it depends if the links are to the original site or the one it is redirecting to, but that is another video lol. For right now, I did up a little 3 minute example of using the “info” query term.

And for all of you who want to know more about Google’s Search Query Terms I also created a down loadable PDF “Cheet Sheet” with all my favorites terms and what they do.

Download Google Search Term Query Cheet Sheet

If you can think of ways to use these Query Terms that might help others, please comment!

I have been pulling my hair out trying to keep the PR (page rank) on the sites that I buy. And NOW, even my favorite tool is failing me and has caused some hundreds of dollars wasted on purchased domains “they” said were good to go.

I created this video to show you JUST what I am talking about. And don’t get me wrong, I still recommend and use FreshDrop but you do have to DO your due diligence after finding the domain!

Want to see this bigger, click here FreshDrop/PR Video

Interesting. SEO Chat, put this above there pr lookup tool:
“Google is making some changes on how automated search results are handled, and it is causing some of our tools to not operate correctly. We apologize for any inconviences this has caused, and we are working on ways to make our tools functional again.”

It always bugs me when an Internet marketer puts down his competition in a sales letter just to make his product look better. You know, if you make the others look bad, then you think your idea looks good and that keeps folks from looking at the holes in your product. Same with Politics in the country!

It even bugs me more when it is my product they are trying to blow holes in. And what makes this worse, is that I haven’t even released my  product yet, nor do I have a launch date for it!

I did approach whom I thought were trusted marketers and asked them to do a Joint Venture with us when I did launch. We didn’t hold back and told them exactly what we were doing cause I THOUGHT I COULD TRUST THEM!

What happened next I never expected.

I just NEVER expected to see our trust misused and our product concepts held up (incorrectly I might add) next to their competing product as if ours was something to sneeze at. Hello! I guess I should be flattered that they thought that if I launched it it would pull sales away from them.

But, I still couldn’t believe it.

The truth of the matter is, when it comes to SEO, there is a lot of ways of doing the same thing, and there are holes in ANYTHING that is going to manipulate the search engines. So when a guy says he is white hat and then asks you to pay him to get access to his network of sites to yes, manipulate the search engines, he ain’t so white hat. It is still about tricking the search engines. And, I will not say I am not tricking the search engines, cause I am!

And, I have been doing it a long time, and, I do it well!

I could rip their product apart, but don’t want to do that as I still have some respect for these guys (although I don’t know why now) but I guess I still believe in just keeping it real and talking about why MY products WORK.

So, what do you think?

Is this business as normal or should we expect better things from folks we have beers with in the bar?