pr0 -> pr6 pr0 -> pr6 pr3 -> pr5 pr4 -> pr5 pr4 -> pr5 My weight went up about 30k on the first day of the PR update. I expected more weight, but figured that's life. Then yesterday it dropped back to pre-PR weight. I checked today, and it went up by 140k! I have more weight than my city has population
Thanks Homer. In MSN if you put in beat photo radar i come up on the first page, beat red light cameras too I will use the tools.
Aaarrggh....photoblocker, I put it on my plates and still got a speeding ticket from a camera, the number stood out like dogs whatsits .
Did you post links to those pages in unrelated guest books around the 'Net? I know from experience that your PR can get clobbered for that kind of thing. AmCy
How about using the following tool on your domain: http://www.searchengineworld.com/cgi-bin/servercheck.cgi I can see a bad 302 redirect. Have a google for 302 redirects and you will find out the problems they cause. Change the redirect to a 301 and you should get better results.
Yikes...sorry to hear about your loss. Did they also deindex this site? I am thinking penalty here for sure. This happened to me a couple of years ago with a PR7 site. It, then became my mission to find out why? In my case it was buying links. I had bought 1 textlink, site wide from a PR8 site that was very relevant. Upon update I went from PR4 to PR7, which lasted about 3 weeks. Then the dreaded PR flatline for me and my linkback provider. It really sucked, and cost me serious money for nothing My rocking website suddenly became a ghost town. Since then I have never considered buying links.
Buying text links is very risky business. There are a few factors (that I can think of) to consider. 1) If you are buying them to increase your Pr Google makes their stance on this crystal clear...your banned if caught, it is against TOS. 2) The Google Patent talks about links needing to be in place for a certain length of time before they are regonized. Based on this it would cost you a fortune to keep a paid backlink from a high PR site in place for 8 months. I am certain there are other risks but these two come to mind.
well places like joeant.com cost money for a perm link and people like textlinkbrokers offer perm links on min pr2 sites. Dunno. I wish I knew the truth, bet we all wish we did!
Remember when your buying a link to ask your self, why? If you are paying 95.00 for a business.com listing or a $75.00 Joaant listing that's for the purpose of advertising your website. If you are spending $XXX/ month for a sitewide link back from a non relevant high PR ranking site your intentions will seem more clear to prying eyes
Homer, I totally agree. However, textlinkbrokers (why the heck am i promoting them, haha!) has a 25-35$ fee for each min PR2 lifetime link in a relevant directory. They actually use a PHP directory module that they give to 3rd party sites. To me, that is a form of advertising just like joeant's directory listing for 40$
the last PR update was jan 1/05 so 3-4 months like nomal timeline Google put SOOO much importance on PR, but updates it every 3-4 months its just wrong its should be a monthly update.
I guess with the billion+ pages to iteratively go through to normalize the pagerank takes that long. Even with the kind of hardware they can throw at it.