I'm pretty new and don't know a whole lot about Google and the way it works, but I'm having a problem lately. I had a couple domains that I was working on but had to put on the back burner last year, so I redid them to include a lot of Adsense ads for now til I could get back to them. Anyway, they were actually doing really well, and then suddenly - bang! The pagerank left, the traffic left... I'm not sure what to do. will I still be able to use these domains and get them back into Google, or what? It sucks that I lost my pagerank, and REALLY sucks that I lost my traffic. Any advice?
Did you do blackhat SEO for those domains? That could explain the page rank/ and rankings drop. In that case you would probably some how have to remove those techniques and then submit a re-inclusion request to google.
I don't know. a friend of mine helped me with the sites, I don't know what he did. I remember at one point he decided to stop doing something he was doing with hidden links so that google wouldn't kill the sites. i don't think anything else was being done though... guess i'd have to ask, but i thought he knew what he was doing. what is involved in a reinclusion request? and if i don't know what i did wrong... then what? i figured i'd remove some of the ads and fix the layout a bit but other than that... :-/
well, i've done link exchanges here... i tried not to add spammy looking sites, but... grrr. so how does that work? if one person here gives me a crappy link, it all goes downhill?
You cant do anything.. but you can bring those page front.. tell ur frnds to comment, bring some page impression on those dropped pages.. thats all.. everything will be fine.
I think that you will have to implement more linkbuilding strategies. How bout blog commenting and article submissions? Those too can add value to your site other than doing reciprocal links.