The recent Google Page Rank update has “affected” quite a number of webmaster worldwide.  The page rank of sites that sell links had their PR value reduced by up to 2 in many cases. From PR 5 to 3 or from PR 4 to 2.  Many of my sites that sell Text Link ADs were similarly affected.

While traffics to the sites were not affected so far but eCPM value has decreased by some extent and I am not sure at this stage if that is related to the updated PR value. I am been think for a while on whether to remove the Text Links from my site with the hope that PR will be restored at later stage but that will mean that I need to let go those earning from TLA.

To confirm whether the removal of TLA will restore the PR value, I have request TLA  to removed TLA from two of my sites that sold only a few links and proceed to remove TLA code from those sites. From there I will request for a reconsideration by Google in a few days.

I will monitor the effect of it in future posts.