Should I remove url?

pr0 and white bar

[annieo]

Thank you for all the helpful advise to a newbie like me. Thanks to posts from a question I posted yesterday, I spent all night reading webmasterworld. I did not even know about PR until yesterday. Today I know enough to know I'm in trouble. I need to keep the url I have because I am doing business with this name, otherwise I'd just register a new name as has been suggested.

I am listed in dmoz and have links from a couple of decent web sites, but I am still pr0.

Apparently I have ignorantly done something to offend the googlegods. I can only think of 3 possibilities.

1) using links and text in the <noframe> code to help engines see the same links that were in the nav frame.

2) having links to a bunch of near duplicate pages.

3) having two DNS entries pointing to the same directory since I changed my mind about what url I wanted to use.

I have remedied these 3 possibilities by going to a non-frame format, removing links and pages of near duplicate pages, and having my web host point my unused domain name to another page. The version showing in cache is still the frame version.

Should I remove my url from Google for a couple of months and then start over? Or would this do any good? How do I know if I am banned for life?

Thank you for all suggestions and the nice welcome to webmaster world.

[troels nybo nielsen]

> .. but I am still pr0.

... and you will be untill the next update in a couple of weeks. It's difficult to be quite sure about anything untill that. My advice right now will have to be: _patience_. And keeping on reading WebmasterWorld and learning.

[jimbeetle]

Hi annieo,

If the site is indexed by Google and you have a white bar that does not necessarily mean that it is PR0. I've been referring to it more often as PR<1. Our main site is white bar (up from gray in October) and traffic from Google is slowly increasing month to month.

Take troels_nybo_nielsen advice on patience and continue to build some good incoming links and good content. Then sit on your hands and wait through the next couple of updates.

Jim