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It looks like Google updated the toolbar PageRank again. The Search Status Firefox extensions just informed me about that. Two of my sites, including SEO Expert Blog, each lost one point. Additionally, I tried some free online SEO tools to check what they tell me, but none of them returned any data on PageRank, so I assume that Search Status tells the truth.

The Google toolbar could help here, but I really don't want to install that Google spyware extension. Anyway, as long as the traffic that comes from the big G does not decrease, I don't give a toss about it. Even if it decreases, I won't let Google dictate how I build my websites.

Google recently penalized link networks and web sites that sell or buy links by decreasing their PageRanks. To be more precise: sites that sell or buy links on their own or via link brokers such as Text Link Ads. These methods of link marketing do not comply with Google's Webmaster Guidelines, in contrast to buying Google AdWords or integrating Google AdSense on your site.

To get rid of Google's own ugly paid link advertising, that often points to useless spammy looking sites you can use the following methods discussed in this article:

Google invented a new form of schizophrenia for French president Sarkozy. Using Google's language tools to translate his name sarkozy (in lowercase) from French to English reveals that this man combines three personalities in one person.

You don't know what I mean? Click the following links to learn more:

I am sure this is true, though linkbait genius John Chow doesn't rank for make money online on Google any more. Even when searching for John Chow his site doesn't show up on the first result page, I haven't looked at the second.

I read his blog earlier this year for a few weeks, and I think it's somehow surprising that Google took so long to ban his site, maybe his AdSense revenue was so high that Google was afraid of loosing too much money.

Sometime ago I read that it would save quite a lot of energy if Google was using black as the background color of it's search page instead of white. Today I stumbled upon blackgoogle.com. I was looking for an alternative to Google anyway, so I may start with this one.

As an ecologically conscious person I somehow have a better feeling though still using Google. Here are some numbers I found on the ecoIron Blog that legitimate using Black Google as long as there is no better search engine: