I am pretty sure when you ask for reinclusion it is asking for re-indexing reconsideration not PR reinstatement.
But I read in google webmaster's blog that you can request for lost PR too. I'm not sure though, that's why I asked.
You may be correct, do you have the links handy? As far as I knew reinclusion refers to indexing. If it is true, it's pretty good entertainment to me! Google uses internal PR (what they see). Rumor has it, this is different that what we see and updated much more frequently. So for webmaster's to see the pretty green stuff gives them a warm and fuzzy feeling, then it disappears the sadness begins . I think ranking is more "important" than "PR importance" because ranking directly relates to profit and revenue based on a webmaster's goals. The main purpose I see PR being used for is site $$ evaluation and $$ costs to purchase links. To be honest, I uninstalled my PR toolbar 2 years ago and have never paid much attention to it since. There are also major privacy issues for all GTB users!. H
The green bar is just a "snapshot". You can see much better in webmastertools under crawl stats, what is the actual pagerank of your site, atleast low, medium or high or nothing. Even this seems to be not really up-to-date, but changes more often than the green bar. Google has the same problem internally to interactively update all changes. I have a page which has a PR of 1, but was with all 5 pages at "medium" level (usually PR 4 - 6) due to some backlinks from a dropped domain. After some time they downvalued this dropped domain, and the PR 1 site now and has - as expected - some more "low" value pages, but still seems to get a PR 4. Personally I believe that Google is just finalizing the next backlink update these days. as there is pretty lot of activity in various areas. PR export to the public green bar is usually the "final" shot.
Yes, I got My Pr back for one of my blog , Blog was penalized due to paid posting , after penalization I removed all the paid posts and refund the money to all the advertizers . I submited my blog to google again for reconsideration . After two months I got my PR back for my blog .. However , this is not the case with all the blogs , I did the same thing for a lot of my blogs but only one blog got PR 4 and all the remaining blogs are still penalized . It's like once you lose your reputaion in the market then it's very hard to get it back .. same is the case here .. MB
Right now my SERP ranking is unaffected, and I'm afraid that somehow if I request a reconsideration, instead of giving back my PR, they might decide to knock off my rankings too. After all, when we request reconsideration we are essentially owing to our wrong doings.
yes I bet they crack up down at Google office when they get these -- " Forgive me Google I have 50 paid links on my site ..
Yes you can. I wrote a blog article about this a while ago. Just write to google and if you fix all your problems you should get it back a couple of weeks.
I went to check out your article but your site just hangs! Something is up with your site and the installation OR functionality of Google Analytics.