website drops to pr0 for having too many low quality links

[venetsian]

I have a website called SEOWebsiteCMS.com which is the homepage for a CMS software that we wrote. The thing is that we have tons of website running it and the link is located on to footer of all pages using the cms. This type of links are considered low quality and should not pass almost any PR.

In my case all links have been devalued and most probably the website has been punished with some PR ban or something because my SERPS are not affected and I still rank N:3 on SEO CMS and few other ones that I've targeted....

Does anyone know how I can get the PR to show again?

Thanks,

Venetsian.

[zodiac]

look at your directory....load failed. :p

[venetsian]

look at your directory....load failed. :p

So you think that because the directory is disabled I have pr 0 ? :cool:

Venetsian.

[kenbrower]

Well that disables a number of pages on our site, and every page adds something to the site in regards to seo ranking .. so it certainly doesn't help.

[venetsian]

That's true but not my primary concern.

I need to know if someone know anything about removing such penalties and where exactly the penalty comes from. As I've said above there is no SERP penalty just the PR button is not showing any value when the last recorded PR was PR4 and has popularity of over 15k where it should be strong pr4 at the moment ....

Does anyone know some google email or something like that where I can get more info from them ??

Venetsian.

[Overheard Daily]

can I get you to add something in your real estate directory for me?

[poshswinger]

Just wonder when did it go down to PR0?

[adsensenewb]

It has to be something else. Google isnt going to penalize your site in anyway for other people linking to you. If that were the case, it would be simple to sabotage a competitors' site by signing them up for link farms, bad neighborhoods, etc.

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Perhaps one of your outbound link targets got banned... so you are being penalized for linking out to a bad site?

[venetsian]

It has to be something else. Google isnt going to penalize your site in anyway for other people linking to you. If that were the case, it would be simple to sabotage a competitors' site by signing them up for link farms, bad neighborhoods, etc.

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Perhaps one of your outbound link targets got banned... so you are being penalized for linking out to a bad site? -- Not really because I don't link to bad sites. On this website I have links to my company, SEO News Blog and WikiPedia which are relatively high quality sites. There are no other outgoing links so this theory is not supported by any evidence.

The PR drop happened before the last PR update (2 weeks before) and was rather strange since I consider this website quite good quality.

Venetsian.

[vagrant]

May be worth a try if you think its because of low quality links, may not, just an idea.

Next time you update the program, make it do the index page a normal link, all others rel nofollow.
You could always revert the next update.

That said, all the backlinks have never done drupal any harm ;)


{extra added on edit.}
I looked at the home page in your profile it says date: 2008-01-25Today I finally updated the Content Management System with the latest version of SEO Website CMS and this post is actually more like a test rathen than some meaningful post

what changes were made that may have an effect?

also http://www.seowebsitecms.com/ has
<meta name="robots" content="index, follow, noarchive" />

could that fact that google has no cache be a small part of the problem in some way ? probably not but you may well know better.

Also as already stated, the link from the home page to "directory" does not work so to google could look like a broken site.

[venetsian]

May be worth a try if you think its because of low quality links, may not, just an idea.

Next time you update the program, make it do the index page a normal link, all others rel nofollow.
You could always revert the next update. --- Yes I might try that because it sounds as good idea.

That said, all the backlinks have never done drupal any harm ;)


{extra added on edit.}
I looked at the home page in your profile it says date: 2008-01-25

what changes were made that may have an effect?

also http://www.seowebsitecms.com/ has


could that fact that google has no cache be a small part of the problem in some way ? probably not but you may well know better. -- No the no cache is not a factor because all my website have this and none of them suffers in ranking or so.

Also as already stated, the link from the home page to "directory" does not work so to google could look like a broken site. -- the directory has been disabled for quite a while now and should not be a problem. This is not 404 but simply doesn't show any content. All the directory listings and categories are still active but are not linked from the main page.

I will try what you suggest and lets see what's going to happen.

Venetsian.

[godsofchaos]

Look at it this way:

Your site was considered to be a good site in terms of google. However, when your directory disappeared and everything else died (link juices etc) google saw your site as a dead site to which pr doesn't matter. Of course, no one can pin point the reason but its a possibility.