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Where the Hell Did My Pagerank Go?

By on Apr 3, 2009 in Advertising Tips

frustration, pretty girlAfter months at PR2, PR3 and PR4 I thought I was moving up in the google pagerank game. What a shock when I checked my pagerank today and it is at 0 – what the heck?!!! I’m not really sure how this happened. My site is indexed in google and googles webmaster tools show no indication of any problems with the site at all except one broken link. Maybe I just have not been out there creating enough new links – I’m not really sure. I guess I became complacement with the direction I thought this site was going. So now it’s time to get moving - reassess and restart my link building in earnest. I didn’t realize how easy it was to lose pagerank.  I busted my butt for months to get the pr 4, now it will be interesting to see what I have to do to get it back.  I wish there was an easy way to find out WHY so you can fix it and move on.

After some research I’ve made a plan.  Here are some things I will do – First, figure out what I was doing when my pagerank was at its highest. I’ll check how many links I had in both the articles and the web copy itself. If I had 28 to 39 links on my web page before, and several in my articles, and then I drop the number of links down to 18 links instead of the original 39 that I had before, I could start to see my Pagerank fall pretty fast.  Here is another good reason that your Pagerank could fall – because you either don’t have enough keywords or key phrases in either your SEO Articles or your website content or in both. Not having enough keywords/phrases in your material is something that will drop your pagerank faster than almost anything. To try and bring my pagerank up quickly, I’ll go back and re-work my web content to make sure that I have more than enough links and keywords/phrases in my web copy and content to help the search engine crawlers to find my SEO Articles, as well as my web page, by the links and the keywords/phrases.

Here’s are some things you can do to prevent the shock of a sudden drop of the almighty Google PageRank:

1 – Diversify your traffic, make sure you cultivate other sources of traffic other than the search engines. Form partnerships and strategic links with other webmasters.  Interact in forums and online communities.

2 –  Provide quality information and free products or services that get ‘good word of mouth’ recommendations from your visitors. Content will always be king — make sure it reigns
supreme on your site.

3 –  Pick the right domain name. If you can, choose a short catchy keyword for your domain, one people will remember and would naturally type into a search engine or browser to find what they’re looking for on the web. For example:  www.internetmarketing.com

4 –  If you’re having success with your site,(or/and especially if you’re not) venture into off-line advertising and promotion.  Use traditional promotional products, t-shirts, caps, bumper stickers, etc. to promote your URL. You can also try PPC (Pay Per Click) advertising to provide you with targeted traffic and sidestep the search engines.

5 – Try viral products like ebooks, reports and free software programs to get your links out into the marketplace. You can also try product or site testimonials which are another great source of targeted traffic.

6 - Be extremely careful of any out-going links from your site. Don’t link to bad neighborhoods (link farms, banned sites, etc.) Google will penalize you for bad links.

7 –  Onsite SEO factors does have an influence on rankings –make sure your site is dressed to kill. Pay attention to keyword density, title descriptions, meta tags, alt tags and interior linking structure. If you can, optimize your site for all three major search engines: MSN, Yahoo and Google. But don’t stop there, also submit your site to the countless other smaller search engines on the web. It’s the old adage, don’t
put all your eggs into the ever-changing Google basket or you’re probably turn your site and yourself into one desperate basket case. Other search engines listed here: http://www.isedn.org.  Along those same lines, have a large spread of keyword phrases that you’re targeting with the content on your site. Don’t go after extremely competitive keywords which have countless major players with deep pockets buying links, left right and center. Instead, pick a whole range of keyword phrases that have less or little competition. All these keyword phrases will add up to a flood of traffic for your site. Phrases that for the most part won’t be affected by a sudden drop in PageRank. One good site for finding these keywords is www.nichebot.com, it will give both the number of hits and the amount of competition for each keyword.

8 - There is one more strategy you must explore if you want to lessen the power and importance of your own site’s PR. One strategy that will bring in tons of Google traffic even if your PR is ZERO. You must utilize the PageRank of other sites on the web. Use off-page optimization for your major keywords. Build countless anchor text links through keyword rich articles, content related blogs and products that benefit from the high PR of other sites on the web.

9 – Keyword rich articles are some of the best examples of this method, placing them on high PR sites will filter Google traffic through these articles onto your site. It will also warm up these visitors before they each your site and they will be more receptive to any of your site’s offering; never underestimate the power of the Pre-sell. Build enough of these links and a sudden drop in your own Google PR ranking won’t drastically ffect your bottom line or the amount of quality traffic you are receiving.

What’s even more satisfying, if you build these links,partnerships, and off-site optimization — your Google PageRank will probably go up. If it doesn’t, who cares, for you will have Google-Proofed your site against any sudden drop in your site’s PR rankings and broadened the reach of your site by using the high PR of other sites on the Web. In the process, you will have protected your site and yourself from the big bad Google PR wolf.

Here is one more great reference I found on Problogger.com 20 Linkbaiting Techniqes 

OK Enough giving tips, it’s time for me to follow my own advice, I know it works – Now I’ve got to go and get busy!!

 

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  1. 98 Comment(s)

  2. By Michele on Apr 4, 2009 | Reply

    Thanks for this information. Sorry you lost your page rank =( That sucks. Good luck getting it back!

    http://amothersdevotion.blogspot.com

  3. By lankapo on Apr 4, 2009 | Reply

    yupp losing PR is suxx, but I already experienced it with my main blog because of PPP.

    Did you ask Google, why they slap your PR to zero since you are so popular in EC :)

  4. By Jared|Speakwealthnow on Apr 4, 2009 | Reply

    I’ve seen a couple of blogs who lost their PR, most of them surprised with the sudden drop. I have 2 on mine but my target is to get a 4 and higher eventually. I’m still new to all the link building strategies but I hope my blog will make it. Good luck to you!

  5. By Your Fun Family on Apr 4, 2009 | Reply

    Usually when pagerank drops to zero you pissed off the Google gods. One reason can be that you have used more than the allowed amount of Adsense ads. You do not look like you did that. Another HUGE reason that gets most people is what you actually posted. Google is getting tricky in trying to find people that do paid posts. Google bots now look for phrases in your posts that have to do with getting paid to blog. You have to be careful of your wording so you do not trigger their suspicions. I dropped to zero before and popped right back up after the next pageranking. I just deleted the two posts that talked about paid posts. I would look through the posts you wrote since the last page ranking.

    Good Luck

  6. By Izzy Daniels on Apr 4, 2009 | Reply

    That sucks that you lost your page rank. I’ve been spending the last few months trying to get mine listed, and just hit PR1 the other day. These are some very helpful tips, and I will be sure to use them, so thanks :)

  7. By flit on Apr 4, 2009 | Reply

    thanks for this article… my pagerank (and google hits) have also disappeared and I DON’T LIKE IT…. glad to have some ideas to try to bring ‘em back

  8. By ria on Apr 4, 2009 | Reply

    Great article. Forums have worked wonders for me. My site isn’t even 3 months old yet, and already I have a pr5. But I participate in 7 forums in my niche, and of course I leave my signature every time I post!

  9. By Caleb (Market Secrets Blogger) on Apr 4, 2009 | Reply

    I got a few things that I know will help you out:

    Immediately change your permalink structure so that your page urls will containing the name of the posts instead of the dreaded ?p=143 (you do this by inserting /%postname%/into your WP Admin control Permalinks custom setting)
    Get as many quality backlinks as you can (one way to do this is by commenting on high PR sites that use “do-follow” tags)
    Use Related Sites and Related Posts plugin at the end of posts
    Make a way for visitors to keep track of comments they leave by installing Subscribe to Post plugin

    These are some things That we as marketers have to do to stay up to date and keep the links flowing toward our blogs…hope this helps ;)

  10. By Harrison on Apr 4, 2009 | Reply

    Do you use Alexia the web tracking site in addition to Google Analytics? I have found differing numbers on my host service log vs. Google. I’m not sure if Google is filtering out certain numbers but the difference is several hundred hits per day.

  11. By ana/ps on Apr 4, 2009 | Reply

    Ah, your page rank is gone. Sometimes a page rank will only stay for 1-6 months, after that, it will disappear again until who knows when you will ever get a page rank. Perhaps you will only get 2 or 1 next time, which is better than 0 like I always have. I had a pr 4 and now I have 0 for a long time now. My page rank disappeared twice and never came back since. It’s awful.

  12. By ana/ps on Apr 4, 2009 | Reply

    You can’t do anything to get your page rank back, because that is just how weird Mr. G. works…LOL!

  13. By AndyW on Apr 4, 2009 | Reply

    I’ve just checked and you have nearly 7,000 incoming links…

    You don’t just drop PageRank from 4 to 0 natuarally… are you sure you haven’t been penalised? Is there anything that you have done like buy or sell links that could have lead you to being penalised?

  14. By laane on Apr 4, 2009 | Reply

    I went through the same, as did many, many others.

    Trying to hard is punished by google.

  15. By Sheila on Apr 4, 2009 | Reply

    Thanks I’ll get my husband to do this for me. Hope it works.

  16. By Sheila on Apr 4, 2009 | Reply

    I don’t know how I pissed them off. I don’t buy links or do ppp – I don’t do any blackhat seo – I’m just going through all my latest posts any trying to figure it out.

  17. By FishHawk on Apr 4, 2009 | Reply

    Could it have something to do with global warming or maybe a banking scandal? Both seem to be at the bottom of much evil these days.

  18. By Vishnu - SQA on Apr 4, 2009 | Reply

    Dear, happened to me as well. One of my sites ( http://www.beautifulminds.in ) which was on PR4 dipped in to PR 0 and u know what? Its still in the first pages of search…

  19. By The Fitness Diva on Apr 4, 2009 | Reply

    Sorry to hear this happened to you. Reading your post made me run and check that mine is still PR4. I worked hard to get that, and I’m sure I would be devastated if it dropped suddenly. I’m still waiting to see it change to PR5.
    Good luck with getting it back up. Also, thanks for posting all the PR increasing tips!

  20. By denologis on Apr 4, 2009 | Reply

    why don’t you ask google to clarificate your PR?
    i wish you get your PR again. :)

  21. By Eric "Speedcat Hollydale" on Apr 4, 2009 | Reply

    Simple simple … paid links, ads and copying other material.

    People get all confused about page rank. It is all about STRONG links and conforming. You break the code of google and you pay. I have read posts like this a thousand times over the years. EVERY TIME the blog was a big billboard.

  22. By George Serradinho on Apr 5, 2009 | Reply

    Sorry to hear that you are down to PR0. I went from PR2 to PR3 and I can honestly say that I did nothing different.

    Regular posts and commenting here and there. Your tips should help out a lot of people.

    Just keep working on it and I’m sure you will be back to PR3 or PR4.

  23. By Niema on Apr 5, 2009 | Reply

    ohh so sorry for that, i just frustated too, google not index my page. thanks for sharing the tips

  24. By Dean Saliba on Apr 5, 2009 | Reply

    Am I the only person who does not care about PR?

    I’ve seen people almost break down in tears at losingg their PR but the blogs that make me money have been at PR0 for years now and the only reason I don’t make more money if due to me being lazy.

  25. By Arya on Apr 5, 2009 | Reply

    What happen to you is also happen to me. I really desperate. That’s make real suck.

  26. By Ann Reilly on Apr 5, 2009 | Reply

    can relate as my rank went from 2 to 0. Had heard was easy to got from a 2 to a 3 but..i don’t think so! For a time my Alexa rank was climbing but now it sems to also be going in the wrong direction, in this case north! i think when you try to influence your rank unnaturally,Google frowns on that. We are all with enrecard and my bounce rate is high as many jus stay 5 secs. The best way to get traffic, is to be interesting and have a page people visit because they want to! Ofcourse we need to register with search engines and trade links and comment on each other’s blogs and posts like we are doing now here. How else would the public find us? I hear being an expert and writing articles also helps as you and i both do but you better as while i have alot of great FREE info on my site, it is not easily seen or tagged well with dense keywords and phrases like you said.

  27. By heidi on Apr 5, 2009 | Reply

    This is one of the best articles I have read. I went from a pr3 to a 0 and was shocked. I am going to bookmark this and follow some of these tips to hopefully get my blog back on track.
    btw-thanks for your inspiring comment on my page.

  28. By ThemeToday.com on Apr 5, 2009 | Reply

    I have been reading your blog from last few weeks but I have seen that in google we find your blog images for misleading keywords . You must add images according to your content . Believe me real traffic wants original information not sexy babes .

  29. By meryl on Apr 5, 2009 | Reply

    sorry to hear from you that your PR went down to 0. I’m just new here in blogosphere..now, i know what are the do’s and dont’s ..this is a very helpful article. Thanks for posting.

  30. By Chronic Chick Talk on Apr 5, 2009 | Reply

    So sorry to see that you’ve gone down. You never know what they will decide. Sometimes it seems are livelyhood is in there hands which is not fair at all. Have you tried to appeal them?

  31. By Shirley on Apr 5, 2009 | Reply

    Truly sorry to hear you lost your page rank. I came across another blog that had the same problem and offered some solutions. Here are the links she provided and I checked them out about Google PageRank:
    http://www.google.com/corporate/tech.html
    http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=35769

    Hope these links are of help.

  32. By Damilik on Apr 5, 2009 | Reply

    I doubt if it was because you do not have enough keywords. I have a pr 2 site that I wrote a blogpost last in august of last year and the site is still pr 2.

    I believe you probably linked to a bad neighborhood.

  33. By Easy Job Information on Apr 6, 2009 | Reply

    what you’ve mentioned here is very useful for me, and am not to concerned about page rank as long don’t lose any traffic :)

  34. By Pickup trucks on Apr 6, 2009 | Reply

    yea this update was not good for major of my sites … PR went down and even the rankings of my sites went down in the hell from top 10 to 60′s and 70′s position :(

  35. By Pickup trucks on Apr 6, 2009 | Reply

    buying & selling links gets our site penalised in Google … but how do google know that the link in our blogroll is a paid link ? it can be our network site also or our frds site too.

  36. By Not Big News on Apr 6, 2009 | Reply

    It usually is a temporary glitch that it occurs during PR updates. Give it a day or two.

    A few pointed out you might have been penalized for PPP; could be. Google wants your links “nofollow” in paid posts.

  37. By Not Big News on Apr 6, 2009 | Reply

    I forgot to mention: a good indication of a Google penalty is a rank of n/a, not 0.

  38. By MoneyEnergy on Apr 6, 2009 | Reply

    same thing happened to my blog unexpectedly this week, I had been at PR 3 for the longest time, then dropped to PR 2 – it’s weird, because in the last month I’ve actually built a bunch of quality incoming links. The only outlinks I do might be to other good blogs or mainstream media articles – is the latter ineffectual?

  39. By MoneyEnergy on Apr 6, 2009 | Reply

    how does selling links on your site penalize you? how would google know they are “sold” links? that’s just simple advertising – surely people paying you to host ads on your site isn’t considered “black hat” – that just doesn’t make any sense. Someone please email me and let me know.

  40. By Eric "Speedcat Hollydale" on Apr 6, 2009 | Reply

    … again, you need links from high rank blogs. Traffic is a small part of the equation.

    Note that 10,000 links from PR 0 and PR 1 are really of no value.

  41. By Dee on Apr 6, 2009 | Reply

    I can relate to this happening and for a while I was dismayed and perlexed as to why this could happen. I recently downloaded the GoogleTraffic Report which details from Googles own Quality Rater Guide how Google rates sites and how you can not only get traffic to your sites but also ensure Google values your site and ranks it higher in the SERPs.

  42. By Nicolas Prudhon on Apr 6, 2009 | Reply

    I like the advices you are giving there and I hope you’ll get your PR back soon!

    I have referred your post to my readers, I made a trackback to your post.

  43. By Jamie on Apr 6, 2009 | Reply

    It’s because Entrecard started accepting paid links. Back in the day people upped their page ranks by using RingSurf and WebRings. Hey it worked for me!

  44. By Xpresi Riau on Apr 6, 2009 | Reply

    You know.. as Google PR updated my PR is -1..

  45. By Not Big News on Apr 7, 2009 | Reply

    Following post will shed some light on links in PPP posts:

    PPP and Google PageRank.

  46. By Clement on Apr 7, 2009 | Reply

    @Not Big News: I do not agree with your argument. Last year, my blog was penalized by Google. My PR was dropped from 2 to 0.It always showed 0 until I “confessed my sins” to the Might G.

  47. By Pretsel Maker on Apr 7, 2009 | Reply

    It’s wonderful to be here,
    It’s certainly a thrill!!

    I think I really need a break, a time for myself.So, I decided to visit this place.

  48. By Phoenix2life on Apr 7, 2009 | Reply

    Sorry to hear about loosing your page rank. But interestingly you are consistently watching it. And without getting depressed you are keen to get it back. That is positive. Another thing you are trying is to step through what has worked. In the process you are sharing that experience so others who has not yet achieved good PR or has lost their PR would be using it. Cool. Nice. Keep it up. Wish you get your PR back. Best luck.

  49. By Pembrokeshire on Apr 8, 2009 | Reply

    Our directory, well the main pages links,and banner pages where 4 and 3, but as a directory businesses can pay for a listing on our site with this last PR we have lost most of it our main page is a 2 all others are 0 may have to edit about 200+ pages :(

  50. By Film-Book dot Com on Apr 9, 2009 | Reply

    Sorry to hear about what happened to you PR Sheila. I thought I was being penalized as well but my page rank remained at 4. In addition, my PR for some of my most popular pages went up.

    Anyway, people gave you some great advice in the comments, especially Caleb. I use all of those techniques myself.

    Get links from pages with a higher page rank than you on their home page. If you can’t, get them from pages with the same pr as you.

    Here is a post on doubling your Technorati Rating (applicable to your situation as well):
    http://film-book.com/how-i-doubled-my-technorati-authority-in-less-than-two-weeks/

  51. By Laura on Apr 9, 2009 | Reply

    I am so very sorry you lost your page rank. It takes ages to build it up and is such a kick in the teeth when they take it away. One of my friends lost her pagerank of 3 and she couldnt even log into her google accounts. She put it down to the fact that she was advertising some dodgy blogs in her blog list.

  52. By Tonyknuckles on Apr 9, 2009 | Reply

    Really enjoy all of the timely and informative tips found on your site. Any ideas on what I can do to help my own site? Your advice will go a long way.

    Follow me: @tonyknuckles

  53. By Jan on Apr 10, 2009 | Reply

    Sorry to hear about losing your pagerank and I hope on the next update you will have your PR again.

    Thank you for the tips on keeping the Pagerank, it is a great help!

  54. By Webbielady on Apr 10, 2009 | Reply

    That’s a real hard fall… from 4 to 0? Oh! For me nothing happened with the latest update all those with good PR remain as is and so are the new ones and without PRs.

  55. By Sham on Apr 11, 2009 | Reply

    My site went from zero to one..

  56. By ian on Apr 11, 2009 | Reply

    Hi,

    The first time I visit your blog. I was thinking why didn’t you use permalink. You can increase your SEO by changing your permalink into /%postname%/%category%/ .

  57. By free css templates on Apr 11, 2009 | Reply

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  58. By Toronto SEO on Apr 11, 2009 | Reply

    Sorry to hear about what happened. Hopefully things will go back to normal at the next PageRank update.

    At the very least, your content is good and your traffic won’t be affected that much (if at all) by this. Good luck! :)

  59. By homebased on Apr 12, 2009 | Reply

    Sorry to know regarding your Google PR.But I hope theadmaster as name suggests will manage everything and get back to its original level.
    My best wishes are with you

  60. By Rotten Blog on Apr 12, 2009 | Reply

    I know its absolutely pathetic.
    I even did what you did. Google smack my PR down.

  61. By ria on Apr 13, 2009 | Reply

    when google has n/a for page rank, it means they’re about to update soon, it doesn’t mean you’re penalized in any way. I always see n/a just days before an update.

  62. By mosche on Apr 14, 2009 | Reply

    It same for my , from pr3 to 0

  63. By FishHawk on Apr 17, 2009 | Reply

    After first seeing this post, I always check on your page rank now when I make an Entrecard drop. YAHOO!!! I see that it is now back to 2.

    Okay, maybe that is not worth a YAHOO!!! For it has took 13 days, and 2 is only half of 4 if I did my figurin’ right.

  64. By WayneA on Apr 20, 2009 | Reply

    Going through the same thing. PR went from 2 to 3 and then to n/a. Its very frustating. You give lots of great tips. In the end, its really about SERP, more then PR. PR looks good, but a high SERP, will get you more notice.

  65. By Liquidsilver on Apr 27, 2009 | Reply

    I got PR1 today..I guess link-whoring does works..:) I’ve spent 2 weeks getting back links from other sites. Is it possible to get a higher page ranks bu just getting backlinks?

    And by the way, your site page rank, its still zero, why is that?

  66. By hannah on Apr 30, 2009 | Reply

    i also lost my pagerank today, (from 2, it went down to 0!!) and that made me search for ways on how i could bring it back again – that’s the reason why i have come across your site. thanks for all your tips! soooo glad to have found your site!!

  67. By FendyBt2 on May 3, 2009 | Reply

    Yeah… Google did it again… I’ve got smack down a couple of times myself… It seems that it’s your turn now… Sorry to hear that… ;)

    btw… You can also try this link network service and create a lot of backlinks for your sites…

  68. By Femmepower on May 6, 2009 | Reply

    this is a very informative post.good thing i found it.sorry about your page rank.i hope i don’t lose mine.but i’ll definitely follow your advice before i run the risk of losing my PR.

  69. By Make money online | how to make money online from home on May 6, 2009 | Reply

    I also have a blog with PR3 for many months. No paid post or link. Then early April it was slapped with PR0.

  70. By Compare Prices on May 21, 2009 | Reply

    Sorry to hear about you PR. Mine is Zero but still getting reasonable amount of traffic and nicely indexed by Google. Maybe PR is overatted?

  71. By Melayu Boleh on May 27, 2009 | Reply

    it unique information about pagerank. I will try my best to get my pagerank soon.

  72. By harry seenthing on Jun 2, 2009 | Reply

    why my friend? maybe google is sleepy or maybe his blind

  73. By RUSLI SANG VISIONER on Jun 22, 2009 | Reply

    As a Newbie, I am always searching online for articles that can help me. Thank you

  74. By Mikes Sumondong on Jul 2, 2009 | Reply

    I thought this site is just about EC dropping. After reading this, i realize it’s worth visiting.

  75. By Landrum on Jul 5, 2009 | Reply

    amazing stuff thanx :)

  76. By Strength and Fitness Blog on Jul 15, 2009 | Reply

    Thanks for this article. Question: how often does google check pagerank?

  77. By Affiliate Marketer on Jul 27, 2009 | Reply

    Def some good info here – keep it coming

  78. By marshall on Aug 16, 2009 | Reply

    posting links is a good way to get traffic if you cant get search engine traffic, you dont always need the search engines and page rank

    Best Online Tips

  79. By Simple on Aug 17, 2009 | Reply

    thanks !! very helpful post!

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  81. By Simple on Aug 17, 2009 | Reply

    Thank you for your help!

  82. By Marcus on Aug 18, 2009 | Reply

    amazing stuff thanx :)

  83. By Marcus on Aug 18, 2009 | Reply

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  84. By Hosting on Aug 20, 2009 | Reply

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  85. By Marcus Campbell on Aug 24, 2009 | Reply

    Wow! Thank you! I always wanted to write in my site something like that. Can I take part of your post to my blog?

  86. By Private Label Rights on Sep 1, 2009 | Reply

    This is a very informative post! Keep up the good work.

  87. By pinoygeek on Sep 15, 2009 | Reply

    I just checked your PR on it is on PR4… page rank 4..

  88. By tunepal on Oct 10, 2009 | Reply

    when the next pagerank will update?

  89. By Domain Analysis on Oct 21, 2009 | Reply

    I really liked your thread about this, and I’ve seen a few more like it recently – the best part about yours is, it’s very informative and useful and full of good information without a bunch of usless rants and BS!

    I’ll be sure to give this URL to some friends

    Thanks Again

  90. By Panic Attack Symptoms on Oct 27, 2009 | Reply

    Hopefully now you have seen some of your page rank come back. I personally have been struggling with getting page rank to my sites. It seems like I work my a** off and still have not reaped the rewards; hopefully my day is coming soon.

  91. By turnip on Dec 29, 2009 | Reply

    I still see a PR0. clearly you got slapped. My blog was punished for the longest time after an Adwords dispute. They finally declared an amnesty and my pr shot up from 3 to 4, and has been bouncing back and forth ever since.

    What I did to try and improve my standing was to no-follow any link that was remotely spammy. Add a sitemap, a privacy policy, an about page, and contacted Google through their tools website saying I had taken the above actions and was there anything else I could do to improve my standing. They never responded, but I haven’t been pagerank slapped since then either.

  92. By Rob on Dec 29, 2009 | Reply

    I’ve been considering an ebook option for my webcomic, but just don’t know how to start something like this. I’d be curious to see how that would affect pageranking.

  93. By backlinks on Jan 1, 2010 | Reply

    There is more reason to comment than ever before!

  94. By S! on Mar 1, 2010 | Reply

    I don’t think the way Google chooses page rank makes any sense. They jerk you around to screw with the spammers.

  95. By Evan Nelson on Jun 30, 2010 | Reply

    somtimes it is very difficult to get quality backlinks from authority sites.,”‘

  96. By Reece Khan on Sep 5, 2010 | Reply

    well, if you want to have lots of backlinks, you better have great content.”*

  97. By Melatonin Supplement ` on Oct 11, 2010 | Reply

    getting backlinks is sometimes difficult but article submission should give you good backlinks~,~

  98. By Jack Web on Oct 28, 2010 | Reply

    I have the same problem, with my sites… i think articles is the way to go, when i’ve submitted some articles i had a few links and the pr went up…

  99. By Rust Paint on Dec 13, 2010 | Reply

    getting backlinks should be the first priority of any webmaster if he wants to rank well on search engines .*`

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