fearlessrick - 1:21 pm on Mar 6, 2008 (gmt 0)

They did one for my site. Works with a search for my domain. Traffic doubled overnight. This creates somewhat of a dilemma for both of us (me and G). Back in December, they slammed my entire site PR from a 4 to ZERO ostensibly because I was doing some paid blogging and accept paid advertising (not a crime).

Turns out that the PR change was cosmetic. No PR shows, but my site still passes juice according to a couple of tests done by some pretty bright people.

So, while I like more traffic, I really don't wish to be beholding to Google for it unless they back off on some of their heavy-handed, control-freak "guidelines" for webmasters.

They have too much control and now have decided which pages to display under my search results (four of them, and only 1 is one that I would have chosen).

Now, if they want to give the webmaster control over what's s displayed, that's another story. Meanwhile, I am very wary of anything they do, per past experiences.

Edit: before anyone asks, I did remove the paid posts from my blog and did a reinclusion request over a month ago. No response.