Woe is me, my Pagerank is gone

I was a mom&pop PR8!

[trebor]

I was reading the mom&pop PR8 thread, and IIRC my site was PR7 or 8.

Went to check in Google Directory (Mac guy, don't have the toolbar), only to find that, horrors, it doesn't list a pagerank for me anymore!

ODP Submitting Services Category [directory.google.com]

Site hasn't changed its look in years! No spam, no tricks, just good plain 100% compliant html with proper meta tags!

Who do I beg to, or bribe, to deal with this mortifying situation. Egad!

[pageoneresults]

I see PR5 for the home page. Gray toolbar for interior pages.

[Mardi_Gras]

Your site has a PR of 5 on the toolbar.

[trebor]

Well, I've obviously taken a HUGE hit in the latest update. I was page 1, position 2-5 for queries like "promote site for free", now I'm nowhere to be seen.

Something weird has happened. My PR has been stable, and slowly increasing, for years.

So the question remains: how can I find out what caused the huge drop? This is particularly ironic considering I've advocated patient, search-engine respectful promotion techniques for many years!

[bird]

The missing ranking bar in the directory serves as a very helpful indicator for ODP edotors to check out which sites in their categories changed their URL with or without a redirect, have disappeared completely, or couldn't be crawled for any other reason.

I'd guess that yours is an example of the latter, and Googlebot simply had troubles reaching your site for a while. Glitches and hickups do happen, but they usually don't last longer than one crawling cycle.

[namniboose]

My site has just been demoted too. I have done a lot of link building the past month and the site went from being ranked #2 in DMOZ to being #5 (slipped to #5 from #3 on the most important SERP too).

I did add keywords to my link text and I'm wondering if I've overdone it and been penalised?

I wish I knew what was going on.

[ciml]

This can happen when the URL in the Google Directory isn't the same as the URL in Google. This is quite common when listed with or without the www; with or without index.html or whatever; or when an affiliate link address is listed instead of your home page.

[lazyz]

I believe that is what happened to me...

(www.mysite.com vs mysite.com)

I have a solid PR5 on the tool bar with 86 inbound links but no page rank in the Google directory.

I am listed in DMOZ and have been for several months. I am getting good traffic from Google.

My page rank in the directory disappeared with this last update.

[Craig_F]

trebor,

for what it's worth I think ciml is correct. if you check your urls at google and open dir you'll see that you are listed with different urls.

-Craig

[trebor]

> for what it's worth I think ciml is correct. if you check your urls at google and open dir you'll see that you are listed with different urls.

You mean the www.example.com vs. example.com? Good theory, except that last month the google directory ranked me very highly.

You would think that google is smart enough to realize that 99.99% of the time, www.xyz.com and xyz.com are equivalent. They were a month ago, AFAICT.

Best,R

[edited by: Brett_Tabke at 11:47 am (utc) on July 3, 2002]
[edit reason] no urls or self promotion please [/edit]

[ciml]

> You mean the www.example.com vs. example.com?

Nope, the other reason. If you search for yourdomain.com you'll see its Google listing. Alternatively, search for cache:yourdomain.com and you'll see the listed URL at the top of the page.