After returning from my holliday I noticed a box had been offline for about two weeks. All sites on the box have lost their PR. I used various tools like http://livepr.raketforskning.com to check all datacenters but all give a PR 0. Does anyone have some experience with this, or maybe knows how to get back on track quickly?
Sorry for that Only two questions, - Your pages are still indexed on search engines ? Google, Yahoo, MSN, ... - Have you lost the rankings on Search Engines for your keywords ?
I was away for about 2 weeks so the box went down the day after I left. All sites are still in the index and traffic is flowing in fine. However I was about to start exchanging some links and that get difficult with a PR3...
One, use more than one tool for PR and backlink checks. Some sites will show PR 0 from time to time. Check them on http://oy-oy.eu/, for instance. Two, there was an update to how Google canonicalizes some urls, check with and without www - see if it perhaps shifted on you.
NetMidWest, I've 301'ed all non www URL's to www. I've used the tools on the websites you suggested, all PR 0. I guest I have to wait a few more months before I can start exchanging links...
some people probably took down their links...I know I would. contact everyone and see if they'll reinstate your links.
Sure, one of them is http://www.gamenode.com I had it submitted to a shitload of directories of few months ago. I checked a few and the links are still up. B.T.W. that domain had 46 visits from GoogleBot today.
You sure it had pr before? I doubt it as it has no backlink when i search in G:http://www.google.com/search?num=30...ficial&hs=MYf&q=link:gamenode.com&btnG=Search
Last time I checked it was PR3, it got that with the January update if I can remember correctly. Maybe we are looking at the old results? Also other domains which are way older lost their PR. I won't post them here but if anyone thinks this is interesting stuff I can PM them.
You won't lose PR because of downtime. It is most likely that people linking to you (which gives you, your PR) removed their links if they saw your site was bust.
you can use the other pr checking tools . i think pr loosing is not possible , if your download is not more than 3 months
Not true, PR updates constantly. You are referring to the PR export which is every three months. This just gives us a relational snapshot of the situation.
I disagree. Currently I have a site where google bot (http://www.google.com/bot.html) is crawling +500 pages/day. I guess that if my site were 3 weeks down it will be negatively affected, maybe on PR, maybe on rankings, maybe on a lower crawler rate (which affect negatively too because would not be indexing new pages so fast), .... or inside any other Google secret/penalty/arena/ ...