tedster - 6:26 am on Nov 26, 2007 (gmt 0)

Just to clarify - as understand it, Marcia is not trying to resolve a "problem" with "a website" here. These are long dormant domains that she began to look at in the light of Google's patent on using historical information, and she feels she seeing a pattern -- so she is floating an idea by us for discussion.

For me the question becomes this: Is anyone reading here who has a long established site that went from a formerly decent PR to PR 0? Such a site owner could check to see if the site recently got any new backlinks.

I do have some previously developed domains that have now been dormant for years, so I thought I could check out Marcia's idea on my own. However, in every case of mine, the sites have attracted recent backlinks - and they all retained their PR. So no corroboration from me, and no negation either.

[edited by: tedster at 8:50 am (utc) on Nov. 26, 2007]