What the heck is going on here i've had my blog www.nextechnews.com for well... FOREVER, it's been a few years now and i blog on it weekly if not daily in most cases, i have never used naughty backlink building or anything of the sort, all of my text is hand written and I've been a PR4 for a while. Hell i have backlinks from several good sites , hell in total i have over 11,000 backlinks to my page as per yahoo's linkdomain: things have been great then all of a sudden this month my 5000+ pages in google has suddenly dropped to a thousand i believe is still falling. My PR4 has now dropped to PR0 via pagerank2.com... And my traffic has already started to disappear. HELP ME WHAT DO I DO! This is rediculous whats going on and please help me i really dont know who to talk to or what action to take or what to do. I mean sure i wasn't running a massive site, 300-900 viewers a day but still it's my da*m site what's going on with google?
i know this happends to me all the time i have approx 200+ guests or visits a day but google doesnt index my site correctly i think i would deserve more!
It seems from my logs 11/9 was the last day that it was pr4 then it dropped to pr2, and then 11/15 it went to pr0 so what the heck does that mean?
theirs no where on my site that shows any paid links, just links to stuff related to my site. Is this some new gogle strategy to discourage pagerank based link sales periodically drop peoples site to 0 for no reason, im not banned from what i can tel because my site isn't gone from the database the pages and links are still viisble in google, only my pr has magiclaly disappeared. and a few thousand pages for some reason
Uggh! Every other post on the front page is a paid post, and not very subtle paid posts at that. Down to PR0 is a bit harsh, but you're breaking Google guidelines. The links in the right sidebar also look rather suspicious.
i know the owners of the sites that i link to, and the sites that i review in post's i don't see how reviews of sites can be such an issue. and if it was that wouldnt i have been dropped fromg oogle completely since when do they just drop PR to PR0
Is it only the SERP dropped or the indexed pages? PR is not a factor in SERP. And if its only PR, check if your partners still linking to your site.
cchance - your link colour is the same as the body text colour, and with text like: That looks very spammy with the optimised anchor text. Heh, even one of your casino reviews says at the bottom that it's a paid advertisement!
The problem my friend is you are selling links via PPP etc - so your thread title is not entirely accurate - this is not a "whitehat" blog my friend. I wish you well with undoing this situation and getting back in
You have just detailed the exact same change as me, pr 4 to 0 and rapidly diminishing serps and visitors, wtf why?
Pretty simple.....Looks like paid posts to me bro......put nofollow tags on the links linking out to other sites and a disclaimer if your doing paid posts...
have you modified anything to your pages? because i've added like a signature too on all my posts and they dissapeared from Google and were reindexed in about a week.
In looking at the links, do you think there are too many, really? Given the amount of text, I don't think it is an unreasonable amount of links... but my opinion is very novice. . I personally find duplicate links with duplicate anchor text to appear slightly put offish. +Why are the links NOT a nofollow?