Google's Page Rank Update Goes After Paid Links? Seems like there is a Page Rank update taking place now that seems to be impacting sites that sell links. Can't say that we were not warned about this. Danny Sullivan wrote Official: Selling Paid Links Can Hurt Your PageRank Or Rankings On Google over two weeks ago, and now it appears many sites are getting hit with a drop in Page Rank. Here is a list of some sites, including major publishers, who seem to have taken a hit overnight: * http://www.washingtonpost.com/ PR7 to PR5 * http://www.forbes.com/ PR7 to PR5 * http://www.suntimes.com/ PR7 to PR5 * http://www.sfgate.com/ PR7 to PR5 * http://www.statcounter.com/ PR10 to PR6 * http://www.masternewmedia.org/ PR7 to PR4 * http://www.autoblog.com/ PR6 to PR4 * http://www.engadget.com/ PR7 to PR5 * http://www.problogger.net/ PR6 to PR4 * http://www.copyblogger.com/ PR6 to PR4 * http://www.joystiq.com/ PR6 to PR4 * http://www.tuaw.com/ PR6 to PR4 * http://www.searchengineguide.com/ PR7 to PR4 * http://www.searchenginejournal.com/ PR7 to PR4 * http://www.johnchow.com/ PR6 to PR4 * http://www.quickonlinetips.com/ PR6 to PR3 * http://weblogtoolscollection.com/ PR6 to PR4 * http://andybeard.eu/ PR5 to PR3 * http://www.seroundtable.com/ PR7 to PR4 * http://www.blogherald.com/ PR6 to PR4 I am sure there are many more. Is this a direct hit against sites that sell paid links? That is too hard to say for sure.