Any PR 0's lately?

Our main site just got hit

[wifi on the fly]

Very strange turn of events. Our main site for a pretty decent retail chain just got PR0'd. We have had a decent PR for a long time. Nothing has changed for our site. We did pickup a PR 7 site last month, but their PR is still there.

Any once else seeing this? We follow every rule to the game and keep a very clean link exchange program going on.

Anyone else get ZeRo'd lately?

[wifi on the fly]

I just sent an email to get removed from the PR7 site that the site in question just recently received. However, when penaltys float down, why would I be at the receiving end of one when the PR7 site in question still looks good and is pushing a decent amount of trafic.

I just don't really see how we got mixed in with the penaltys this round.

Still nothing back from Google on this. I am mostly concerned because at this point I don't see anything that would trigger the PR0 and I surely don't want to see it get ripped through our other sites :(

[BigDave]

If you cannot think of a reason that you might be penalized, there is probably some other reason, like a glitch in the toolbar.

Are you still getting a reasonable amount of traffic?

Do you still show up in a site: search?

Has your server been down lately?

Have you or your hosting service blocked googlebot?

Do you link to that PR7 page or is it a one way link?

Nothing personal, but the knee-jerk reaction of asking to get a link removed from a site that was not penalized is stupid. You do not know what the problem is yet, and that link most likely isn't it. That is a very nice link to have, and you probably will never get it again. And most importantly, you are rudely insinuating that the problem is with the other site, which is very bad for your reputation.

[wifi on the fly]

The PR7 site was a 1 way link.

I know it is an idiot thing to do to ask for removal of a PR 7 site, but I have to backtrack and if Google wants to penalize our main site I have to figure this out :(

The server hasn't been down and it actually has about 40 other sites related to the PR'0'd site.

We don't show up in the site search anymore. It is game over - gone-ola.

I just hope this doesn't cause some ripple effect on the other sites. I am baffled.

[wifi on the fly]

Oh and no...we host our own servers on T1 lines so we haven't blocked anything.

Same setup we have had running for 2 years.

[webmktg]

This type of strange things happen in Google. Google could be be in the process of upadating PR. Similar thing happend to my site which is PR5, It showed PR 0 and after 5 mins returned to PR5. So my advice is to follow the wait and see approach.

Also try to get the PR 7 link again. Since its a oneway link there wil be no problem at all.

[shrirch]

Flush your DNS by doing

ipconfig /flushdns

(assuming you're in windows if you're using the tb)

This normally sends you to a new datacenter / IP address on the next request.

[union_jack]

how long has Travelnow been PR0? anybody know!

[wifi on the fly]

I flushed the DNS a few times. Datacenters don't change this.

Alltheweb: 8
MSN: 158
HotBot: 164
Google/ AOL: 0
AltaVista: 9

These are the link checks for the site in question. We have over 200 incoming links for this site, plus the fact that it is our main checkout site. This is a link check on the PR7 site in question.

Google/ AOL: 1,130
Alltheweb: 2,165
AltaVista: 3,009
MSN: 3,539

It is a great source of traffic for us, but I am not sure how "not" to get caught in the same kind of trap again.

Bummer it happened to our main site. :(

[ILuvSrchEngines]

>Bummer it happened to our main site. :(

Welcome to "florida". You have a lot of company here. Enjoy the palm trees and sunshine while you wither away under our non-sense filter. But rest easy knowing that by blocking your site we have helped make oursleves even more money with Adwords. We will think of you (not really) when we deposit the next million in the bank. --Sincerely Greedybot, hugs and kisses

[wifi on the fly]

I agree times have changed, but I am not sure this is what happened. If we lost everything in 1 sweep I would say that would be the case. Unless this is just the first one and the others follow.

We have played by the rules of the game for some time, so hopefully this is an error on the side of Google or something that is fixable.

The only change I have made over 2 years is taking on a PR7 site. Maybe that set off some red flags or something. I know GG and a few select others hang out here so maybe they will pull my email that I sent to webmaster at and hook me up with some GeeeeeMail. Gee...what have I done?

[BigDave]

Does anyone there use any position checking software? Since you are hosting it in house, this could be extra dangerous.

[wifi on the fly]

Nope. In all honesty we focus on driving traffic via links. I do everything myself and really haven't had the time to check rankings. I was checking links on the new PR update and discovered my PR.

More on the update...now the sites links page is back on a search for the company name. It was gone-ola today with my nifty PR0. I am still PR0, but at least I am not gone from the SERP's.

Weird and cool I guess. Maybe the email to G! is getting this fixed. It sure makes me nervous having this PR0 on our main page.

[mifi601]

It happened to me as well. A couple of days ago one of my sites went from 4 to 0.

a site: search shows ALL the pages of the site. no monkey business, whatsoever.

I am pretty upset!