Comments on: How I Got My PageRank Back

By: sterndal

sterndal — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 14:54:12 +0000

i also lost my PR3. how, i wish i could get it back again. it’s just a good thing my other blog got PR2.

By: liza

liza — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 05:41:43 +0000

Hi I was browsing about how to restore my page rank when I stumble by here. Anyway Congrats to you and Thanks for the info you posted here. I hope I can be able to get my PR back soon too.

By: mirc

mirc — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 18:07:58 +0000

Yaro,

Thanks for bringing light to this issue. So simply, what should beginners do to avoid page rank issues before they get stung like you guys did?

By: Karen (Karooch from Scraps of Mind)

Karen (Karooch from Scraps of Mind) — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 09:18:08 +0000

Very glad to see you have your page rank back again Yaro.

And that RSS explosion is incredible. Surely the two aren’t linked in any way? Mind you I’d believe anything in this crazy blogging World.

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 02:08:54 +0000

This pagerank thing is curious. Google is my browser default page. A few days ago I glanced at the pagerank it was giving itself and noticed that it was less than “10″. After refreshing I checked a few more times throughout the day and noticed that it had indeed penalized itself. What a hoot.

Today it is back at “10″.

By: KC TAN

KC TAN — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 00:38:44 +0000

To add on to what Wendy Piersall has mentioned, Google knows you are selling links when someone reports you as well. You will be surprised how many of our competitors are doing that.

By: ChowMunga!

ChowMunga! — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 22:11:55 +0000

I also noticed that your RSS numbers are significantly greater than when I saw them last time. What’s going on??? Are you just signing yourself up with tons of free Yahoo accounts?? C’mon you can tell us!

Anything to do with the improved page rank maybe?

By: Money Never Sleeps

Money Never Sleeps — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 19:35:22 +0000

I submitted to the Yahoo Directory and my page rank jumped from 1 to 4 almost overnight! It was the best $299 I have ever spent! You should pay the $299 Yaro and watch what happens!

By: Coryan

Coryan — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 18:46:15 +0000

I’m just waiting for my first pagerank. My blog has been around for three months and getting moderate traffic, but still my PR is 0. Just gonna keep working on quality content and working to increase traffic. Eventually Google will throw me a number.

By: Mark - ProBloggers Matrix

Mark - ProBloggers Matrix — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 18:33:22 +0000

WOW Yaro!!! Your RSS Subscribers EXPLODED today!! Yesterday you had 6750 subscribers!
TODAY, YOU have 17596 subscribers!! You REALLY know how to hit those HUGE communications channels!!
Congratulations!!!

By: Wendy Piersall

Wendy Piersall — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 18:20:38 +0000

@Jeremy Killian – Google assumes a link is paid based on human judgement. One of my other blogs did a review of a product that wasn’t paid for (nor even solicited by the company). Because it looked like a paid review (which admittedly, it did), they dropped the site to a PR of 0.

Regardless of appearances, the author wrote that review because she thought her readers would benefit from the information. This is a serious problem with Google’s approach to this problem – in fact, they are penalizing some people who are in compliance and NOT penalizing some people who aren’t.

What can I do about it? Nothing, except go NoFollow the links Google wants me to NoFollow, whether or not they are paid for.

By: Jeremy Killian

Jeremy Killian — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 15:55:39 +0000

Quick and possibly stupid question. How does Google know if a link is paid for or not? What if I simply link to a site/service that I like? How does Google know that the link has been paid for?

By: KC TAN

KC TAN — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 11:59:07 +0000

Your SERP will decrease with lower PR.. that is my main concern when my site was penalized.. PR is part of the algorithm of calculating SERP.

By: Jacob from Small Business Lessons

Jacob from Small Business Lessons — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 08:59:40 +0000

The important question is:
What is the problem with having low PR, if your SERP do not change?
Or will they change?

By: Cornelius

Cornelius — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 05:46:22 +0000

Yaro,

Thanks for bringing light to this issue. So simply, what should beginners do to avoid page rank issues before they get stung like you guys did?

By: Vera Raposo

Vera Raposo — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 05:06:18 +0000

Thanks for sharing Yaro. Back in December my friend Lynn Terry said good by to Text Link Ads.

I’ve found this whole thing quite interesting and yet I can see alot of people have probably lost income due to all of this.

Thank goodness there’s alot more things one can do to bring in income.

You can read Lynn’s post here…

http://www.clicknewz.com/1261/no-more-tla-sponsored-blogging

By: KC TAN

KC TAN — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 03:12:34 +0000

Congrats, Yaro

My blog was also penalized by Google three months ago due to selling of text links and my PR dropped from 3 to 0..

I decided to stop selling these links and send Google a reinclusion request and my PR resumed to 3 after two weeks =)

I also talked about this in my blog two months ago. One thing to note is that my SERP also dropped during the penalty period..