My Site went to PR0 Need Advice

[Net_Warrior]

Hi everyone...I'm new to webmasterworld. I run a personals site. Being uninformed I made the mistake of having a few rotton apples in the links list. Now my google rankings are PR 0, no backlinks. I feel our site is quality. I removed all outgoing links that go to sites with PR 0. I would appreciate anyone's advice or site review. Can my site recover from this or should I start over with a new URL and?

If I start from the beginning again. Should I redirect my old site to the new site? Should I just ban the googlebot from my present site since it has great rankings in yahoo, msn, altavista, etc.. Do I need to ban the bots from the non-google search engines from visiting the new site? I don't know the best strategy. Or should I try to get my site back on good terms with google. I emailed the reinclusion request today. Thanks!

[Rick_M]

Well, I didn't use the tool to remove the pages from the non-www domain. I just redirected the domain. I did use the removal tool along with my robots.txt to remove many other pages that were duplicate, such as:

www.mydomain.com/?fdsafdsafdjekrqlwj

[Shurik]

I used robots.txt to do exactly what you described. However, I could not get rid of them all since once I remove a few, another few would show up. Google managed to index roughly twice as many pages as I have on the web site. And no matter what I did I could not see them all (google APIs were of no use either). That’s why I decided to submit the root domain without www to get rid of them all.

Anyways, I’m too interested whether people recommend to start clean with a new domain just for google or wait for google’s mercy. As for asking people to change their links - i’ve done that before with another site. Sent 150 politely worded email with the URLs of the new pages that link to them and URLs of their pages to be modified. Only about 30% ever replied.