As of the last PageRank update, our web design blog www.jvfconsulting.com/blog went from PR4 to "No PageRank Information Available" while our main page remains at PR5!?! What is going on here? Why would Google strip us of our Page Rank? We have not been banned or blacklisted because most of our articles still have good Page Rank and appear and the top of the SERPS. Here's some examples: PR3 http://www.jvfconsulting.com/blog/117/How_To_Install_Magento_Locally_On_Windows_XP.html PR1 http://www.jvfconsulting.com/blog/59/UCEPROTECTNetwork_Spam_List_Is_This_Extortion.html
Yeah you got a penalty or your blog stripped of its page rank...why you may ask? That's pretty easy. You have over 200 outbound links on that page! It looks like you are selling links....looks very shady to Google! Here is what you do....remove all links to outside websites and submit a reinclusion request through google Webmaster tools. PM me if you need help and please add to my Rep as I took some time to figure this out!
HighRollerT is right, you have far too many links on that page, specially because the total text on that particular page does not justify such an extreme number of links (73 external links, 128 links to internal pages). Reduce significantly the number of links on that page (I'd suggest, not more than 50 on the whole page, but contrary to what HighRollerT states, do not remove exclusively outgoing links, leave around 10). However, IMHO you neither have a penalty nor your blog has been penalized. I think that what has happened is that because the page was apparently spammy it was simply dropped from the index, hence no PR, the site does not seem to be penalized as a whole, and Google does not penalize page by page... penalties are on the whole site. I do not think that it is necessary to ask for re-inclusion of the page (you should do that for sites, not individual pages), Google will detect the change soon enough as soon as it crawls your site and might decide to add the page again to its index. Note that the PR might not reappear until the next PR update...
This seems to be Googles new way of dealing with link sales. To strip the page of all PR. and if the page rank is important to you....which Im sure it is since you seem to be selling links. Your best bet is to remove ALL of THEM and submit reinclusion...cause like I said this exact thing happened to me and thats how I got my PR back.
Is it ok to just remove all of the Google Adsense on our site, and keep our paying customers ads, then resubmit our url in webmaster tools?
I just cleaned up our Blogroll & Favorite links on the right hand side of our blog reducing the number of outbound links on our page. I'm going to reduce the number of blog articles showing up on each page from 10 to 5, and also remove Google adsense. Is there anything else I can do that will help?
Rotate the links if you can, so that it looks fresh.... and make sure that there is far more content on a page (and I mean text, not fancy graphics) than links. My own rule of thumb is around 1 link for 100 words, but that's not scientific info. Make also a couple of new external dofollow backlinks to that page, so that spiders find it again.
Which links are you referring to that I should rotate? The 125x125 ads on the top right, or the social networking links and blogroll links?
I was meaning the social networking links & blogroll links. For example, I have some 30 blogroll links on my site, but show only 5 at a time.
That's very strange. Maybe PR for those pages is being updated, or the spiders found too much content coming all at once.
Gotcha! I just removed the social networking links on the right, and dropped the amount of articles shown on the page from 10 to 3. We now have about 80 links on a page. Thanks for all the help! If you have anymore suggestions shoot it my way.
We thought that too, but after 2 Page Rank updates and nothing changed, it was time we looked into what was going on. If you have anymore suggestions please let us know! www.jvfconsulting.com/blog
i really wonder to hear that as google is very friendly towards Blogs as google like Blogs very much. I do have a wordpress blog and that too on subdomain but google caches it within minutes as soon as it gets updated. Therefore,you simply need to update your blog with unique contents.
Dont worry about the adsense of how many blog post are apprearing.... The only thing that mattters are the number of outbound links. I would reduce these alone and submit a reinclusion request.
I think that due to the fact that Search Engines are constantly updating their algorithms your blog may have suffered. Either that or the links to which you are linked to may have suffered a downfall. You may want to check it out.