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relequestual:
Hi everyone.
I know DC isn't exactly the place for websites and SEO stuff, but I trust people here than some random forum I find on google.

Recently, my google page rank of my site appaholic dot co dot uk has dropped to 0.
can anyone suggest a reason for this?

The site traffic has not changed, and if anything, its increased over the last week.

Any suggestions or comments welcome.
Thanks

mouser:
google does update pagerank occasionally but.. 0 seems weird, like a bug.

mahesh2k:
Some of the reasons for pagerank drop:

- Websites inbound links are less and outbound links are linking to either spam or scraper sites
- Site sells "text links" which is not allowed by google
- Content is updated rarely and no new sites are linking to it
- Site is used by spammers in their comments

and many more reasons like this. As I'm tracking some SEO blogs so i came up with this few reasons for hurting SERP reputation and pagerank.

app103:
Go to Google Webmaster Tools and see if there are any messages for you there: https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/messages?hl=en

Sometimes if they take away your page rank they have also removed pages from their index, and they may tell you why, there.

One of the things not mentioned by mahesh2k is that they also take away PR if they think you are doing paid posting.

Also be careful about what directories you are submitting your blog to. If there are too many splogs in the directory, you can get punished for being listed along with them (birds of a feather flock together?)

And be very careful about quoting in your posts. Too much quoting can get you slapped for duplicate content and labeled as a splog. Make sure your own original content outweighs the quoting by at least 3:1, which means you should be writing 3 times more than you quote. Quote 100 words and you need to add 300 of your own to balance it.

google does update pagerank occasionally but.. 0 seems weird, like a bug.
-mouser (January 29, 2009, 10:17 AM)
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Not a bug. I was hit hard on my ebook site last year and went from PR4 to 0. Just got myself up to 2 again. Reason? Having the "wrong" TLD. It seems that nearly everyone that had a .tk domain name associated with their site was slapped at the same time and reduced to 0.

It is Google's position that only spammers, splogs, and malware sites use .tk domain names and if you use one you must be a bad site. It doesn't matter how many inbound links you have, or what the quality, reputation, & PR of the sites linking to you is, or if your site was on the front page of digg... if you have a .tk you are crap in their eyes.

I am glad it came when it did though. I was just about to buy the domain I was using and go from free to paid status. I would hate to have paid for 9 years of that domain name and then get hit.

Veign:
First, signup and use Googles Webmaster tools.  This is the way the Google will communicate to you if there is an issue with the website.

Why it would go to 0 most likely has nothing to do with inbound links as it really only takes one to get a pagerank of at least 1.

Reason why a zero:
- Your site was hacked and is filled with hidden spam text.  A common hack is to not change the look of the site and only include links in comments and hidden text - hard to spot unless you think you've been hacked and check the code.  Google Webmaster tools will tell you when this occurs
- You are doing some black-hat SEO techniques and have been caught.  If this this is the case then you need to remove all the techniques and beg Google to forgive you
- You are linking to many, many bad neighborhoods.  Since you control outbound links, Google will penalize for linking to bad websites.
- The page you are looking at, with a zero, recently changed its page name and therefore has no pagerank stored.  PageRank is tied to a page and not a domain.  This means that if a new page is added to your site it start at zero and usually gains its first Pagerank from your internal linking strategies.
- You actually have a pagerank but when you viewed it, it was querying a data center that was not responding.

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