Several months ago, I was one of many that lost PR across an entire site [qisoftware.com]. The main reason I lost PR, my personal blog [Q's Wire], re-established a bit of the PR it lost. The other areas of the site including the main area did not. Q's Wire is DMOZ listed and had a lot of backlinks. Other areas such as WiredPages, the Business Blog, forums and other areas were not DMOZ listed-- but carried backlinks. Could this have been the reason? How can I get the PR back for other areas of my site? Q...
PR has liitle to do with DMOZ listing. Effective internal cross linking will return the PR for your landing pages
If you are caught selling links from your pages or have some suspicious activity as determined by the google, then your PR is gone irrespective of the number of backlinks or the PR of the linking pages.
Whether or not blog advertising is selling links has been widely debated. I was not hiding. I offer advertising on my blog. Links are key to any online advertising. I did not know the Google process took my PR and juiced links I offer. I have a popular service called sitefinds in which I regularly discuss sites I come across and provide links. I am not paid for this service, however I am provding PR juice. I use nofollow tags now when possible. That said-- being a software consultant I believe Google could have avoided this problem through software and not downgrade of sites. I also use forums and signatures well and my promotion was not based entirely on PR but the actual backlinks and posts. But as I have said-- this has been debated and my question really is-- I stopped doing what I was doing sometime ago-- the blog causing the problem did get part of the PR back-- why not the rest of the site? Q...