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My site is gone! Still has PR, but not in SERP's

         

Rearden

3:21 pm on Aug 8, 2003 (gmt 0)

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One of my websites has vanished from the search results. Nothing comes up if I search for my main search terms, the URL itself, or anything. There's no longer even a cached copy of the page! However, the toolbar is still showing a PR7. Did I get penalized, or is it some kind of glitch from the dance? I'd expect to see grey PR if it was the former. Anyone know what's going on here and what I can do if it was penalized? Thanks!

Marcia

5:29 am on Aug 9, 2003 (gmt 0)

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Have you checked regular Google and -cw also? Another thing - was there any server downtime? Pages do get lost now and then for one reason or another, it doesn't necessarily mean there's a penalty.

takagi

5:45 am on Aug 9, 2003 (gmt 0)

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However, the toolbar is still showing a PR7. Did I get penalized, ..

Being penalized but still a PR7 looks unlikely to me. What about a search for 'info:www.domain.com'?

Rearden

2:00 pm on Aug 9, 2003 (gmt 0)

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Thanks for the info.. Yes this is happening on both regular and www-cw, as well as all the other datacenters I know off hand. We did have some downtime on or around July 24, the site was down for about 8 hours (our hosting company's building was on fire!), and then another 3 hours on July 31. No outages otherwise. Googlebot has still been visiting regularly, even after the site disappeared from Google.

Here is the output on "info:www.__.com":

Sorry, no information is available for the URL www.__.com

Find web pages that contain the term "www.__.com"

whoz2

2:13 pm on Aug 9, 2003 (gmt 0)

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I have a site that has PR6 but is banned and has been for almost a year... It started showing PR about 3 months ago, up until then it was a grey bar.

Rearden

3:41 am on Aug 10, 2003 (gmt 0)

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Interesting.. Seems like Google still calculates PR regardless of whether or not a site is banned.

Does anyone else have any input? I'd especially like to see what GoogleGuy has to say!