However, a good alternative is textlinkbrookers.com, who’s links remain under google’s radar, for now at least.

Regards,

Review-Hostel.com

WMT is G’s Web Master Tools. On the main page (after logging in), in the right sidebar is a link to “request reconsideration.” You need to explain why you should be reconsidered, ie. apologies and say you won’t do it again.

If the powers-that-be agree, your PR should be readjusted when the next PR update is done. When I did it, it took two months to go from a 2 to a 4.

I agree with most of the comments, and am going to dump my text links as soon as the current advertising agreement is up.
- Greg

If you have given TLA the heave you can apply to G for reconsideration for each site, using G’s webmaster tools. I did last year and went from a 2 to a 10.

I’m really mainly curious to see what sort of effect scrapping TLA will have. I wonder if my London site’s PR will jump up like I expect it to or maybe it’s stuck on PR0 for some other reason? A major reason I want to get off the goose egg is to start flogging links on this site myself. It’s a competetive market and I think lots of businesses would be willing to pay a lot more than TLA to get a piece of the link action.

I’d say get rid of TLA and sell privately yourself. Plus I’ve always thought TLAs 50% share was totally ridiculous and unfair.

Like Google or not I think that is reason enough.

At the same time – I think its important to recognise that Google is not god and your actions shouldn’t be governed by arbitrary numbers on a toolbar.
While your traffic stays good you shouldn’t worry too much.

Other suggestions: projectwonderful is an interesting advertising project. The current clientele tends to be comic and etsy related, but it could be useful for managing advertisers that you find yourself?

Always enjoy reading what you are up to lately

It wants to be your only pal in cyberspace but your flirting with a competitor, namely TLA, that is not only a different company but represents a whole other way (biz module) of selling adspace from how Google does it and who decided early on (in the days while google was ad free) that buying links to your site was just as bad indicator of how good your site was as if you were a scientist paying other scientists to cite your works and thus rise in importance within the academic society); where the basic system of measuring importance of websites was borrowed from.

So Google as a entity is conflicted in the way it raises your sites in search results and how it measures your PR? Former remains steady or rises while the later goes down?

Maybe if Googles as a web entity is likened to a what neuroscientists say about the human brain (that after all made Google) then perhaps PR is the entities right side of the brain and it’s understandable that it would try to muscle a competitor your of the market by showing it’s dissaprooval in this way.

But if the logical right part of Googles digital-uber-brain continues to function in a cold impartial way and continues to send you traffic then … don’t know, what part of your brain do you make money with?

Perhaps to scifi? Maybe I should check this with that beer goggle software

I also think your london site deserves a good PR. I started my website newtomontreal.com well after your london site I believe… and it’s now PR3. So yours should be at least showing a PR. You also have an alexa ranking that does not match with a PR0. Something’s does not work…

I had TLA on some of my sites last year but remove it from all. I do think it does not help with the big G search engine.