{"id":187,"date":"2008-01-12T19:05:54","date_gmt":"2008-01-13T00:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/webdesign\/2008\/01\/12\/im-sick-of-being-slapped-around\/"},"modified":"2011-07-08T00:26:15","modified_gmt":"2011-07-08T04:26:15","slug":"im-sick-of-being-slapped-around","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/webdesign\/2008\/01\/12\/im-sick-of-being-slapped-around\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m sick of being slapped around"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--CusAds--><p>Seriously.  Is Google still slapping bloggers around or what?<\/p>\n<p>One of my few remaining main blogs that had PR after the last Google slap just lost PR today. It&#8217;s down to a big fat zero. <\/p>\n<div class=\"6bc5ccbe3d2ff567e8bb701db5576878\" data-index=\"2\" style=\"float: right; margin:10px 0 10px 10px;\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-3375789278566919\";\r\n\/* webstyle_inpost_300x250 *\/\r\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"4670586556\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 300;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 250;\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Why? <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve slowed down on posting on all my sites quite a bit over the last few months &#8211; in part due to our new puppy (very sick for first month with us) &#8211; and if there was anything wrong with what I was doing in the past there really shouldn&#8217;t be anything wrong now.  My sites are all cleaned up &#8211; free of any badges that it seems the big G doesn&#8217;t like anymore or perhaps never liked because those companies must have threatened Google&#8217;s Adsense biz. <\/p><!--CusAds-->\n<p>I think this whole thing is ridiculous.  I mean Google is selectively penalizing certain bloggers while exempting &#8220;A&#8221; list bloggers from their slap.  Is there really something terribly wrong with making some money writing about sites or products that you would have written about anyway?  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