DISQUS

Heck no what they did on Yahoo! Answers doesn't fall under free speech; that's clearly libel. I was referencing the WP.com blog that's up right now (there's nothing libelous up there yet, but I do feel, if previous events repeat themselves, there will be). That's basically why I suggested having a lawyer send a C&D to remove the offending blog from WP.com pages before it gets out of hand.

Unfortunately, WP.com hasn't been quick to remove blogs that aren't deemed splogs and which don't overtly break their ToS without some strong arming from legal teams and even then, it's hit or miss. (This conclusion is drawn from previous scenarios.)

Frankly, from a personal stand point, I do believe Automattic needs to remove the blog before things get out of hand. Do I think it will actually happen without some divine intervention? Let's just say I'm not holding my breath. :/

Unfortunately, although it's obviously distasteful, this may fall squarely under free speech since he hasn't actually said anything overtly negative against you yet.

You may need to get a lawyer to send Automattic a notice, since it's only a matter of time before he breaches that fine line of free speech and libel (in my non-legal opinion) That would certainly get Automattic's attention.

It's a shame you have to go through this. Some people simply have far too much time on their hands and have no idea what to do with themselves.

I also wanted to add, Vlad, that if this change is of enough concern to you, you may want to consider following Loren's instructions for getting Google to reconsider -- that's if you weren't selling links, of course. ;)

On another note, your comment spam plugin may be affecting your site's rendering after a comment is submitted. The last time around, I received a page filled with your site's HTML code (took a quick screen shot if you need it, just e-mail me).

~ Teli

Well the truth is that any variation you see after an update is what you’ll get… So one day you see your site is a pagerank 2 and then it jumps back to a 4 for awhile but 2 is what it will be unless Google decides to rollback which I’ve never seen them do.

Not necessarily so, Jeff.

You're correct that one shouldn't take too much stock in the green bar they see in their browser, but Google does fluctuate and the lowest number isn't always the final number.

Take Copyblogger for intance; although Brian's PR dipped down to 4, his final PR is 7 although it fluctuated between 4 and 7 for days. 4 was his new number, but it wasn't his final number.

If you truly want to see what your future/final pagerank will be, have a look at the PR Digger site that Brian linked out to. It gives you an general overview of what numbers the datacenters are giving off and you can guess your final number by looking at what the majority of them are saying.

In Vlad's case, it looks like you may be heading into a PR2 direction, though I must admit, I didn't take the time to count them.

~ Teli

First of all, to ask people to stop linking to you is in a way saying that your site is dependent solely on Google's will.

People tend to forget that it's not necessarily about PageRank, but it's about your "traffic" rank (to invent a word). If the people who link to you do so with good intentions, then let those links be.

What truly matters are the people they are sending to read the valuable content you have here.

Keep providing good content, helping people, and everything should sort itself out in time. Nothing is carved in stone yet, and until your Google rankings and traffic start dropping, it's nothing to worry about really.

Just my 2 cents. ;)

~ Teli