This is kinda funny. If you’ve been following the Google PageRank fiasco that’s been going around the blogosphere for the past few days then you know some web sites and blogs had their PageRank manually adjusted by some goof at Google. The reason for this is that these sites were deemed to be selling links based on PageRank valuation.

What’s bizarre is I’ve never sold any links. Not a single one, period. I don’t accept money for posts and there isn’t a single person that could come forward and state that they paid for a link on my site. All of my links and contacts were earned through good old fashioned content writing. That’s how I earned my links and that’s how I give the links. The only links on my site that are “sold” happen to be the ones Google is selling for me via AdSense (which I’m now dumping)!

I have paid for the following.

• This website at an Auction at Site Point.
• A Yahoo Directory Listing.
• I sponsor the Mobile Category at Blog Catalog.
• I sponsor the Marketing Category at Best of the Web.

Not that it’s any of their business whatsoever but these are normal channels and it’s become an unfair market when I get dinged for using these channels. What bothers me the most about this whole thing is it’s absolutely none of their business just like it’s none of my business what they do with their site. The minute Google starts dictating what I can and can’t do on or off my own web site is when something has gone wrong.

Oh and guess what, we’ve seen this before. Flash back to 10 years ago when there was a behemoth software company that attempted to dictate what operating system and software was allowed to go on new hardware? Google is becoming Microsoft when they purposely punish web sites for not doing business the Google way.  If Google doesn’t want web sites selling links based on PageRank valuation that’s their problem, they should shut down public visibility of PageRank then.

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