| Penalty... What to do next?
How to get a site back into Google? |
quayfee
msg:117452 | 2:40 pm on Dec 6, 2002 (gmt 0) |
Hi All, I have recently taken over a site that has some kind of penalty. 6 months ago (before I was working on it) it had a PR3 and ranked reasonably well. then it disappeared and went to the dreaded PR0. Now I have taken it over and am struggling to get it back up. I've cleaned it upcompletely, no optimisaiton at all, re-written the content as duplication was one issue, and the site has got back to a PR1. Rankings are still poor adn I haven't a clue where to go from here. Any suggestions would be gratefully received.
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tigger
msg:117453 | 3:01 pm on Dec 6, 2002 (gmt 0) |
At least you've got some PR back well done, the best way forward now is to start building some good links & work on some more content for the site
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itsakoo
msg:117454 | 3:28 pm on Dec 6, 2002 (gmt 0) |
I have the same situation with one of our sites. 4 months ago it was worse then a PR0 - we had the grey bar :(
3 months ago the site went to a PR0 and then this month to PR1. Before the site was penalised, it did have a PR4. I think this is just going to be a long process of regaining Google's trust. We started by cleaning up the site and checking all our links and once this process had been completed it still took a couple of months to even get to a PR0. Now, as tigger recommends, it a slow process of re-building the site's link popularity. One question, when you do a backlink search on Google for your site, are any reported? A search for our site comes back with none even though before we were penalised we had a few hundred.
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nell
msg:117455 | 3:46 pm on Dec 6, 2002 (gmt 0) |
Trash the domain and start up a new one. Far less effort than trying to restore one that's been penalized.
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quayfee
msg:117456 | 4:11 pm on Dec 6, 2002 (gmt 0) |
Unfortunatley I'm not sure that dunping the domain is going to be an option at this stage. The site has several backlinks, none are showing in Google, but I thought that G. only listed those on sites over PR4, so I'm not too worried about that at this stage, other SEs are listing them. SO I guess it'll be the regular updates and building the inbounds...:-D I did read (somewhere in the archives) that removing a penalised site with a robots.txt file for a couple of months, then resubmitting it (making sure that it's squeaky clean) was likely to work. Anyone had any success with this? Cheers
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itsakoo
msg:117457 | 4:25 pm on Dec 6, 2002 (gmt 0) |
Trashing the site is a definate no-no. Would cost the client silly money to re-brand.
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