How to recover from Google PR drop

you are right Mikey, but it was a test for me. Besides that directory is not that important for me anyways,

I can learn from my experience to fix my other websites or not let them go the same path

 

if google were to "flag the new domains with the same penalty" this could be a great tool to use to damage competitors websites, so that penalized domains would be worth holding onto to use in this manner..... take a penalized domain and redirect it to your competitor's site and it would make them drop in the serps

Google better not do it that way, or it will be a great tool for the blackhatters to use

 

Hi, i think you not have the choice to restart to 0 with your pagerank!

In this case is recommended to buy a new domain name transfer your website on and redirect the traffic from the other one. I Personally think this is the best thing to do when google removed your pagerank you are blacklisted!

Good luck!

 

smart post and I agree with you civicturbo, it seems like once google catches it's eye on your site and penalizes you, that site never seems to perform greatly after that no matter what you do to fix things..... it might bounce back some, but it seems like there is always a tiny penalty there (unless somehow you can get someone at google like Matt Cutts to notice and help you out, but even a reinclusion request can just draw there attention to where they find something else they don't like about your site or your links... it is just not worth it)

 

after reading Jeff's article I decided to follow his path (to actually fix things as how Google wants it and wait for penalty to go away)....

I did that across all my directories (only 4 or 5 that i own).

Thanks guys

 

I think the trick is to avoid the penalty in the first place. Google will do anything to protect the authenticity of their search engine results, sometimes I'm a bit wary of trying to 'hoodwink' them