Google dropped our site from PR-6 to PR-0 because of RSS

**Big_Red** · 01-11-2007, 01:09 PM

50 scared webmasters.

**TampaToker** · 01-11-2007, 01:10 PM

this thread made me do this ------->

**RhondaN** · 01-11-2007, 01:12 PM

Originally posted by Naughty-Pages

ya know, alot of mine went from a 4 or 5 down to a zero as well..

especially for a few of my sites where they should have went up as I elminated outgoing links and gained a few incoming high PR links with good anchor text.. (one pr4 site that is currently 0 had nearly 1,000 outgoing links, and was changed to 0 outgoing links over 2 months ago... and google has heavily spidered the site since those changes were made).

maybe we'll have to wait a day or two to see what happens..

Does Google penalize you for lots of outgoing links?

**fuzebox** · 01-11-2007, 01:18 PM

Verdana!

Gold

**just a punk** · 01-11-2007, 01:27 PM

Originally posted by RhondaN

We just installed WordPress and FeedWordPress onto our server to grab news items then distribute them to our staff. Yesterday we had a Google PR of 6 which we've had for a long time and today it's at Zero.

A have the same shit at few of may domains with wordpress (dropped to PR0 from PR3 yesterday), but I believe it's just a google dance. Should be back within couple of days.

**Rankings** · 01-11-2007, 01:32 PM

Originally posted by Juilan

Comic Sans has been doing wonders for my page rank!

im actually using that thru out www.pokervagina.com

**Vox** · 01-11-2007, 01:38 PM

Originally posted by kaori

I'm almost betting it's a google bug if it is verdana.... kind of creepy that it happened to the three of us!

Actually it happened to one of my sites too, gone from pr3 to a 0 and the font is verdana.

**baddog** · 01-11-2007, 01:40 PM

Originally posted by RhondaN

Does Google penalize you for lots of outgoing links?

yes it does

**Naughty-Pages** · 01-11-2007, 01:48 PM

Actually, the reason why google dropped the PR of sites using the Verdana font was because of the W32.Verdana virus which poses as the font in infected servers and eventually infects the webmasters intelligence thereby destroying the site.

I can remove this virus for 100 Yen. If you can't afford that, I can take payments of 10 Yen per month for 10 months interest free.

**nico-t** · 01-11-2007, 02:20 PM

check out www.digg.com also pr0, here's an article about... not much info in it though lol...
http://blogs.webpronews.com/2007/01/...s-pagerank-go/

**Arab_Sex** · 01-11-2007, 02:28 PM

Originally posted by RhondaN

Okay, I'm back at 6. Must have been a glitch.

your site wont stay at 6 for ever. do you think your the only one with a website?

to keep your rank, you have to constantly check out the comp's pages and adjust yours.

**baddog** · 01-11-2007, 02:31 PM

Originally posted by Arab_Sex

your site wont stay at 6 for ever. do you think your the only one with a website?

to keep your rank, you have to constantly check out the comp's pages and adjust yours.

It is better to remain silent and thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.

**OzMan** · 01-11-2007, 02:34 PM

Originally posted by Arab_Sex

your site wont stay at 6 for ever. do you think your the only one with a website?

to keep your rank, you have to constantly check out the comp's pages and adjust yours.

Allah Hu Toolbar!

**Jace** · 01-11-2007, 02:36 PM

Originally posted by baddog

It is better to remain silent and thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.

hahahaha

true dat badman

**RhondaN** · 01-11-2007, 05:16 PM

Originally posted by Arab_Sex

your site wont stay at 6 for ever. do you think your the only one with a website?

to keep your rank, you have to constantly check out the comp's pages and adjust yours.

It wasn't like my site went from a 6 to a 4 or even a 3, it dropped to ZERO overnight. I did some Google tests and we were not ranking on page 1 like normal, in fact we weren't showing up on Google at all while at 0. So yeah I made a post to figure out why.

Learned a lot about page rankings in the process. Stuff I would not have known if I didn't open my trap to ask some questions.

**baddog** · 01-11-2007, 05:24 PM

Originally posted by RhondaN

Learned a lot about page rankings in the process. Stuff I would not have known if I didn't open my trap to ask some questions.

Page rankings (SERPs) and Page Rank are not close to being the same thing.

**Martin3** · 01-11-2007, 05:44 PM

God damn this thread is funny

**Jamie** · 01-11-2007, 06:59 PM

PR was calculated long before you made your changes

**mikeyddddd** · 01-11-2007, 07:22 PM

To avoid duplicate content penalties you MUST use custom fonts.

**TheJimmy** · 01-11-2007, 07:25 PM

I love the GFYs for this reason...pure entertainment lol...

**warlock5** · 01-11-2007, 07:33 PM

Anyone in this thread make six figures plus a year and check their pagerank more than once every 3 months?

**Miguel T** · 01-11-2007, 07:35 PM

Give it some time... Im sure google wouldnt do a PR6 to PR0 over night mate.

**RhondaN** · 01-12-2007, 05:19 PM

Originally posted by baddog

Page rankings (SERPs) and Page Rank are not close to being the same thing.

I didn't say they were. I said that our site was not showing up on Google. Since they weren't showing up, I did a quick PR check and saw it was at Zero.

**RhondaN** · 01-12-2007, 05:21 PM

Originally posted by warlock5

Anyone in this thread make six figures plus a year and check their pagerank more than once every 3 months?

I make over six-figures and I check my PR often because I make a lot of link trades. First thing that a lot of people look at is PR before trading. So yeah... I check mine more often that every 3 months.

**beemk** · 01-12-2007, 05:29 PM

Originally posted by RhondaN

I make over six-figures and I check my PR often because I make a lot of link trades. First thing that a lot of people look at is PR before trading. So yeah... I check mine more often that every 3 months.

**georgeyw** · 01-12-2007, 06:03 PM

Originally posted by DjSap

I know what the problem is. It is not the RSS feeds. Do you by any chance use the font verdana on your site? If you do then that is the reason, Google just updated their standards and every site with the font verdana gets an instant 0 page rank. To fix this you need to switch to arial ASAP!

Also if you butter your toast from right to left then google has been known to reset your PR. So be careful.

**baddog** · 01-12-2007, 06:36 PM

Originally posted by RhondaN

I didn't say they were. I said that our site was not showing up on Google. Since they weren't showing up, I did a quick PR check and saw it was at Zero.

However, you did say:

Originally posted by RhondaN

Learned a lot about page rankings in the process. Stuff I would not have known if I didn't open my trap to ask some questions.

Originally posted by RhondaN

I make over six-figures and I check my PR often because I make a lot of link trades. First thing that a lot of people look at is PR before trading. So yeah... I check mine more often that every 3 months.

For some reason I have my doubts that if you do it has a damn thing to do with SEO or SE in general.

Google dropped our site from PR-6 to PR-0 because of RSS

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