Words from Alejandro U. Alvarez
The secret behind Google’s success
Group of research finds out why Google has achieved such a level of popularity. Precisely his advertising tool "Google Adsense".
Apparently Google "blackmails" all the websites out there with a medium popularity so that they'll use their ad program. Whenever it finds a website running another advertising program they'll set their PR to 0.
And this is taking place specially among bloggers (You are reading a live example of it), using advertising programs that I won't mention here (I'm trying to get my PR back 
)Ted Murphy said,
"Once again Google has proved that PR has little to do with blog traffic, influence or relevance and everything to defending their monopolistic stranglehold on search and online advertising"
There are thousands of blogs out there whose PR has been taken away by Google (Starryskye, mine, AndyBeard
... ) And this are just examples of people who have told me about it.
You might say that Google is doing it because "buying links" is forbidden, but that why don't they take away the PR of well known blogs like TechCrunch, they too have sponsored posts.
This is simply proving that Google's PR has degenerated into a tool for them to control the public, as they can use the power it gives them to undermine any other advertising business without any chance for them to answer!
There are already many options out there being developed to substitute Google's PR. Obviously all these advertising websites need to develop them since they pay according to the PR of the blog. In this field we can be sure that new PR systems will be developed, but what happens now with our search positioning?
Will we be affected by this decision? I can't even ask anyone to exchange links with my blog since I have a PR of cero, when I used to have 2...
I am asking all of you to blog about this, digg it, make the world know about this outrageous strategy by Internet's giant Google. We might not be as powerful as Google is, but if we make this issue known through out Internet I bet they'll have to change.
Bloggers unite 
Read more about this:
- ZeroRank @ Any Beard (Great post by the way)
- Google Spanks @ Starry Skye
- Google goes after all
Enjoy,
For google success secret is google adsence, so for every business we have a secret of success.
Excellent post. Its worth reading. I really enjoyed reading it. Keep the good job.
This is simply not true. Google sets PR to zero for a number of reasons but none illegitimate. You should find out why you actually got PR 0 at Google’s Webmaster tools page. Also it’s no secret that Adsense/Adwords is a huge source of income for Google, even my uncle who just got his first computer knows that.
I myself have done quite a lot of research on it. I am now going to try to see if Google restores my PR after removing all payed posts and all words that might indicate that, as Ted Murphy recommended in an article.
I’ve filled the reconsideration request at Google, and now I’ll simply wait to see what happens.
Adsense might be a good source of income, but it doesn’t compare to other blogging tools as I said.
With them and a PR above 2 (The measure it with their own methods, so it doesn’t matter if the site’s PR was lowered to 0) most posts will be payed between 40-60$, and there is almost two to three posts per week available.
I will post the results of my reconsideration request when I am notified.
Thanks for your reply Klyde,
Alex