Hi,
I own a rather small specialized directory/search engine which was doing quite OK in Google in the last months (had a PR5 last month), but it looks that the whole site (mainpage and all subpages) have been PR0'd this update...
This is obviously a penalization (last month I had +160 backlinks, and they're still there)
The only reason I can come up with is that I must have linked to a bad neighbourhood or something like that...
Some weeks ago I posted here asking how you could distinguish between a PR0 as in low PR count, and a PR0 as in a penalized site, and the answers I got was I should analyse the site etc.
Unfortunately, since I'm running a directory/search engine this is almost an impossible task to do that for every submission I get, so I decided to list everything that was usefull for my surfers... guess I was wrong... :¦
I've been busy now changing all direct links with links through a cgi-script, and blocking that one with a robots.txt, but I've already tried that one in the past with no success (google still saw them as backlinks, link format was href="/cgi-bin/link.pl?http://www.google.com/")
Is there anybody who knows how long a PR0 penalization lasts, and if you can contact Google so they can un-penalize my site so it can be back in the game next update?
Thanks!
