For many months this rumor was circulating in all blogsphere that Google is going to take action against paid link sellers and This PR update has penalized many of sites specially blogs that were selling paid links.And from this act Google has officially started a movement against paid links bcz this activity was giving a chance to advertisers to play with Google’s PR algorithm.
Here is a major PR crashed sites list.

• 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

These are the some sites which have came into my noticed but I am sure that there would be many how became victim of this PageRank crash.Is this the direct hit against paid link sellers??…..too hard to say.!!

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