Does a loss of pagerank really affect your traffic?

Google’s PageRank smackdown has left a lot of bloggers bemoaning the loss of traffic and prestige their blogs recieve, but does having your Google PR wiped out or lowered really affect how many visitors you will get on a daily basis?
From my experience, the answer is a resounding “NO”.
The first of my blogs to get [...]

Andy Beard may just have the answer to Paid advertising and Page Rank

I think Andy Beard may just be a genius. At the very least he’s got a very analytical mind and he’s put it to use in the ongoing situation of Google Page Rank Slapping. Andy came up with a method to block Paid Reviews from Google’s Spiders using Robots.txt, and now he’s filed [...]

nofollow, paid links, PR, Flagship Blogs and a Lamborghini.

Sorry for the lack of posts over the past few days. I’ve been dead in the middle of a site redesign that I want to have finished by Christmas if possible, and all my time has been spent up to my ears in PHP code and CSS tweaks. This doesn’t mean that I [...]