My site www.nfreak.net has a PR of 0 for many pages, and PR N/A for many other pages. A couple years ago I joined Adsense and was quickly banned within days for supposedly generating false clicks on my ads (so not true). Currently my site gets 10 - 20 thousand page views per day with 100+ unique visitors. I also have many pages indexed on Google, but I still have a PR 0. I know that page views have nothing to do with PR, but I am just trying to show that my website isn't a dead site, and it does get a fair share of outside clicks. Could Google be holding a grudge on me due to my Adsense ban and have my site locked for a permanent PR0? If so, is there anything I can do about it, or any way to verify this? I mean... it happened so long ago.
I had something very similar happen to me about 4 years ago. My memory is hazy, but I believe when I got banned from AdSense my website did get it's PR taken away. I am still banned from AdSense to this day, but that website did manage to get PR again. PR is just based on backlinks. Do you have quality backlinks from other pages that have PR?
No, the two are not related when it comes to the penalties. When they ban you from Adsense, it is to protect the advertisers. There must be other problem with your PR. PR is based off the quality and quantity of your back links and the only penalty is when you are caught buying or selling too many links for the purpose of boosting PR or the back links you built are discounted for some reason. It would help to have the URL to see if there is a problem that someone might point out. Google is too big to hold grudges against one webmaster. Chances are, if the site has any age, you do not have any quality back links.
Sorry allout but I completely disagree with all that you are saying. What you say is just based on assumptions. Theoretically AdSense and PageRank should be separate, but if you piss off Google why wouldn't they make you pay a bit? NFreak and myself have both experienced this situation. The timing of the PageRank drop coincided perfectly with being banned from AdSense. The AdSense people probably didn't manually set the penalty themselves, but there is a good chance that they forwarded all relevant info/claims to the Google department that does handle such penalties. Google definitely does hold grudges against single webmasters. If you get banned from AdSense that is a lifetime ban...that sure sounds like a grudge to me. I have even tried signing up again with my girlfriend's name. Eventually they caught on that her ads were on my websites and they banned her account to. The reason they gave was that the ads were associated with a banned user.
Yes, I do get about 90 - 120 unique visitors per day and manage 10-20k page views. My website mostly consists of a browser-based MMORPG, where players are very hardcore about the game. There are many people which average 500+ page views per day on the site (my Alexa ranking shows that users average 49 pages per visit). Anyways, while backlinks are important for PR, I believe that Google's calculations are the same for all types of links. My website has around 2,500 pages indexed on Google (maybe more), and it is possible to get PR1 or more even without any backlinks at all, from my perspective of the way things work. I am going off of the equation for PageRank that says a page's PR is equal to: .15 + ( .85 * share ) ... where "share" is the PR divided by the number of links on the page linking in. Thus, I firmly believe it is possible to structure a website such that the PR is distributed well enough to give some pages a PR. I do have some backlinks, although I am not too sure how good they are, but if the next PR update still places all of my pages at 0 / N/A, then I will be very suspicious, as I recently have done a lot with 301 redirection and setting "nofollow" tags to all of the links pointing off of my site.
100+ unique visitors and 10-20k THOUSAND page views with 0 PR. Maybe Google has its internal records for calculating PRs.
Possibly, no one is linking back to any of your pages. Your viewers probably only use your site as a reference for gaming and aren't as educated about backlinking and etc as a webmaster talking about the latest marketing ideas. As for your question, I believe there is no such thing as PR penalty for a banned Adsense.
If I do a typical "link:nfreak.net" search, no links show up, but Google doesn't show all links, so instead I did a search for "nfreak.net" in quotes, and there are quite a lot of backlinks that I have. There are even a couple YouTube videos made about my site. I'm just hoping that Google gives me some PR soon, before I go crazy.
Wow, so I think I found my problem. I noticed that my forums were indexed in Google from way back when, and I don't even use my forums anymore. I noticed Google Webmaster said the highest PR page on my site was from the forums, which surprised me because I forgot that they were still there. I checked the forums, and they are loaded with posts from bots linking to their own websites. Do you think that kind of PR leak could be the source of my PR0s site-wide?