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

RhondaN · 01-11-2007, 01:19 PM

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.

I'm 99% sure that this is why our page rank dropped because some of the news items were from Google News and therefore Google has a syndication link in the news items so they instantly know when someone clicks on a news item where our site is.

We are going to move Word Press to a different domain on a different IP, but I still have a coupld of concerns...

1) How long will it take Google to raise our PR back up after we take down the newsfeeds? Are are we permantly screwed by Google?

2) If we link to the new site and have the site link back to us will that contribute to a lower PR rank?

starpimps · 01-11-2007, 01:23 PM

1) How long will it take Google to raise our PR back up after we take down the newsfeeds? Are are we permantly screwed by Google?
--> i think its every 4 months that pr gets updated

2) If we link to the new site and have the site link back to us will that contribute to a lower PR rank?
-->no, are u movin it to diff IP?

lopez · 01-11-2007, 01:25 PM

obviously the rss is not the reason.
Calm down, then check your PR again tomorrow.

JD · 01-11-2007, 01:26 PM

google doesn't make pr changes over night man. whatever "killed" your PR happened over the last time since the last update

RhondaN · 01-11-2007, 01:27 PM

Yes we will add a new domain onto a different server just for news items for our staff.

If we use a server that is hosting other domains of ours will it decrease those domains PR rankings?

free4porn · 01-11-2007, 01:28 PM

Could be a bug, Google has been acting strangely recently.

OzMan · 01-11-2007, 01:30 PM

take a deep breath.....

PR is shuffling right now so wait until the dust settles before panicking.

If you are still zero it wasn't RSS that did it. Google doesn't penalize people for using their feeds. You might as well blame whatever shoes you had on today and vow never to wear them again.

You might have been in the middle of changing your site when the bot visited or whatever..it will most likely be back up soon.

Jace · 01-11-2007, 01:31 PM

google pr is CONSTANTLY updated, the toolbar is a export they do every 3-4 months

check your pr here

http://www.iwebtool.com/pagerank_checker

and tell me what it says in all the servers

FreeHugeMovies · 01-11-2007, 01:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by lopez

obviously the rss is not the reason.
Calm down, then check your PR again tomorrow.

Agreed....

Jace · 01-11-2007, 01:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by OzMan

You might as well blame whatever shoes you had on today and vow never to wear them again.

hahahaha

nico-t · 01-11-2007, 01:35 PM

listen to the majority here, youre way overreacting and i never heard of a PR change overnight because you got a damn rss feed on your site.... from google themselfs, for lucifers sake!

RhondaN · 01-11-2007, 01:36 PM

Here is why I think it may have been the RSS feed.

After we started pulling in news feeds and also blog feeds using blogsearch.google.com I noticed that google's blogsearch started republishing our feeds that we had just pulled from them and then FeedWordPress republihsed them again our our site as new since they had the same seach keywords. Sort of a never ending newsfeed loop.

We instantly corrected this my having our domain name excluded in the new searches.

DjSap · 01-11-2007, 01:37 PM

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!

kaori · 01-11-2007, 01:40 PM

yeah, mine just dropped to 0 as well...
is that verdana thing true?? because that IS what I use..

Big_Red · 01-11-2007, 01:40 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jace

google pr is CONSTANTLY updated, the toolbar is a export they do every 3-4 months

check your pr here

http://www.iwebtool.com/pagerank_checker

and tell me what it says in all the servers

i checked on two of my domains. one is pr2 on all servers, and the other domain is pr3 on all server. nifty tool. thanks yo!

OzMan · 01-11-2007, 01:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jace

hahahaha

hell..anyone wearing those shoes deserves a permanent ban

RhondaN · 01-11-2007, 01:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jace

google pr is CONSTANTLY updated, the toolbar is a export they do every 3-4 months

check your pr here

and tell me what it says in all the servers

Here are the results

1 toolbarqueries.google.com (6)
2 216.239.37.* (0)
3 216.239.39.* (6)
4 216.239.51.* (6)
5 216.239.53.* (6)
6 216.239.57.* (6)
7 216.239.59.* (0)
8 216.239.63.* (6)
9 64.233.161.* (0)
10 64.233.163.* (3)
11 64.233.167.* (6)
12 64.233.171.* (0)
13 64.233.179.* (6)
14 64.233.183.* (3)
15 64.233.185.* (0)
16 64.233.187.* (6)
17 64.233.189.* (6)
18 66.102.1.* (6)
19 66.102.11.* (0)
20 66.102.7.* (6)
21 66.102.9.* (0)
22 66.249.81.* (6)
23 66.249.83.* (0)
24 66.249.85.* (0)
25 66.249.89.* (6)
26 66.249.91.* (3)
27 66.249.93.* (0)
28 72.14.203.* (3)
29 72.14.205.* (0)
30 72.14.207.* (0)
31 72.14.209.* (0)
32 72.14.211.* (6)
33 72.14.215.* (0)
34 72.14.217.* (0)
35 72.14.219.* (6)
36 72.14.221.* (0)
37 72.14.223.* (3)
38 72.14.235.* (6)
39 72.14.253.* (6)

JD · 01-11-2007, 01:42 PM

Quote:

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!

rofl dude that is the single most RETARED statement I've heard in MONTHS. Thank you for the laugh

zagi · 01-11-2007, 01:43 PM

DjSap that's interesting, I Just checked my site and usually its PR5/6 and now its 0 and Verdana is set as the first font of choice in my CSS file. Where did you see google set this standard?

martinsc · 01-11-2007, 01:45 PM

don't worry, google is still updating... the pr has nothing to do with the rss feeds you have.... relax and check back tomorrow

kaori · 01-11-2007, 01:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by zagi

DjSap that's interesting, I Just checked my site and usually its PR5/6 and now its 0 and Verdana is set as the first font of choice in my CSS file. Where did you see google set this standard?

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

JD · 01-11-2007, 01:46 PM

of couse when I say someone said something retarded I make a fucking typo... figures lol

btw, I use Verdana on ALL of my sites and no pr changes at all on them

OzMan · 01-11-2007, 01:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by RhondaN

Here is why I think it may have been the RSS feed.

After we started pulling in news feeds and also blog feeds using blogsearch.google.com I noticed that google's blogsearch started republishing our feeds that we had just pulled from them and then FeedWordPress republihsed them again our our site as new since they had the same seach keywords. Sort of a never ending newsfeed loop.

We instantly corrected this my having our domain name excluded in the new searches.

I do that often with no problem. Although it looks stupid I like it when it happens because it alerts me that my blog/feeds are well listed.

-2oz

HAPPYPEEKERS · 01-11-2007, 01:50 PM

Mine has gone back and forth like crazy for 2 days.. I am going to just chill and see what happens.. google isnt done dancing just yet.

RhondaN · 01-11-2007, 01:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by OzMan

I do that often with no problem. Although it looks stupid I like it when it happens because it alerts me that my blog/feeds are well listed.

Now none of our blogs are listed in blogsearch. This is why I first thought that Google had penalized us.

Adult Search Results · 01-11-2007, 01:51 PM

I'm surprised they did that.. could be another underlying problem.

Jace · 01-11-2007, 01:51 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SPeRMiNaToR

of couse when I say someone said something retarded I make a fucking typo... figures lol

btw, I use Verdana on ALL of my sites and no pr changes at all on them

I love ya man, but even I could tell that the verdana comment was sarcastic

Jace · 01-11-2007, 01:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by RhondaN

Here are the results

1 toolbarqueries.google.com (6)
2 216.239.37.* (0)
3 216.239.39.* (6)
4 216.239.51.* (6)
5 216.239.53.* (6)
6 216.239.57.* (6)
7 216.239.59.* (0)
8 216.239.63.* (6)
9 64.233.161.* (0)
10 64.233.163.* (3)
11 64.233.167.* (6)
12 64.233.171.* (0)
13 64.233.179.* (6)
14 64.233.183.* (3)
15 64.233.185.* (0)
16 64.233.187.* (6)
17 64.233.189.* (6)
18 66.102.1.* (6)
19 66.102.11.* (0)
20 66.102.7.* (6)
21 66.102.9.* (0)
22 66.249.81.* (6)
23 66.249.83.* (0)
24 66.249.85.* (0)
25 66.249.89.* (6)
26 66.249.91.* (3)
27 66.249.93.* (0)
28 72.14.203.* (3)
29 72.14.205.* (0)
30 72.14.207.* (0)
31 72.14.209.* (0)
32 72.14.211.* (6)
33 72.14.215.* (0)
34 72.14.217.* (0)
35 72.14.219.* (6)
36 72.14.221.* (0)
37 72.14.223.* (3)
38 72.14.235.* (6)
39 72.14.253.* (6)

wirth results like that, there is no way of knowing...my educated guess is that you are about to go from pr6 to pr3

Antonio · 01-11-2007, 01:54 PM

Quote:

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!

finally somebody that knows what he's talking about, I use Arial Black on all my sites and they are number 1 on Google for their respective targeted keywords

JD · 01-11-2007, 01:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jace

I love ya man, but even I could tell that the verdana comment was sarcastic

yeah i know ;) but with SEO and people's weird superstitions you never know

DjSap · 01-11-2007, 01:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by zagi

DjSap that's interesting, I Just checked my site and usually its PR5/6 and now its 0 and Verdana is set as the first font of choice in my CSS file. Where did you see google set this standard?

I'm into the SEO game so this is fresh information, if you are interested I can SEO your site by changing the font to arial for only $95.

OzMan · 01-11-2007, 02:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Antonio

finally somebody that knows what he's talking about, I use Arial Black on all my sites and they are number 1 on Google for their respective targeted keywords

Bloody Boers always abusing the Black somehow

edgeprod · 01-11-2007, 02:13 PM

Weird, RSS keeps bumping mine from 0 to 6.

kaori · 01-11-2007, 02:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DjSap

I'm into the SEO game so this is fresh information, if you are interested I can SEO your site by changing the font to arial for only $95.

ahhh.. so it was pure sarcasm...
eitherway, I guess I'll do what everyone else says, and just wait and chill...

edgeprod · 01-11-2007, 02:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kaori

yeah, mine just dropped to 0 as well...
is that verdana thing true?? because that IS what I use..

RhondaN · 01-11-2007, 02:28 PM

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

DjSap · 01-11-2007, 02:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kaori

ahhh.. so it was pure sarcasm...
eitherway, I guess I'll do what everyone else says, and just wait and chill...

It's not sarcasm, let's just say they don't call me mr. page for nothing.

baddog · 01-11-2007, 02:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by RhondaN

Here is why I think it may have been the RSS feed.

After we started pulling in news feeds and also blog feeds using blogsearch.google.com I noticed that google's blogsearch started republishing our feeds that we had just pulled from them and then FeedWordPress republihsed them again our our site as new since they had the same seach keywords. Sort of a never ending newsfeed loop.

We instantly corrected this my having our domain name excluded in the new searches.

Look up the word coincidence. You happened to make your change the same time PR was updating.

Quote:

Originally Posted by kaori

yeah, mine just dropped to 0 as well...
is that verdana thing true?? because that IS what I use..

You shouuld really consider using our SEO hosting as it comes with free SEO consultations. It sounds as though you could probably use it.

I am working at the car dealership while my car is getting serviced. People are looking at me strangely as this thread has literally made me burst out laughing.

Sosa · 01-11-2007, 02:37 PM

sure there are other reasons. Wait a few days and see where it is.

HomeFry · 01-11-2007, 02:38 PM

I read a while back that Google banned WordPress sites, could have changed since then, but might be worth looking into.

RawAlex · 01-11-2007, 02:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by HomeFry

I read a while back that Google banned WordPress sites, could have changed since then, but might be worth looking into.

That would be surprising, considering the numbers of wordpress sites I have listed in google.

However, none of my sites use the default template.

HomeFry · 01-11-2007, 02:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by RawAlex

That would be surprising, considering the numbers of wordpress sites I have listed in google.

However, none of my sites use the default template.

http://slashdot.org/articles/05/03/31/196220.shtml

I don't know what happened to it since then, but it was going on for a while. This was for WordPress's website, don't know if it ever hit actual blogs or not.

JD · 01-11-2007, 02:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by HomeFry

I read a while back that Google banned WordPress sites, could have changed since then, but might be worth looking into.

not wordpress sites. Wordpress's site. they were abusing the the back links they were getting from all the blogs running it i guess

HomeFry · 01-11-2007, 02:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SPeRMiNaToR

not wordpress sites. Wordpress's site. they were abusing the the back links they were getting from all the blogs running it i guess

Naughty-Pages · 01-11-2007, 02:54 PM

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

however using:
http://www.iwebtool.com/pagerank_checker
it shows a mix of 0's and 4-5's for each of my sites..

i am guessing it's just a fluke for right now as they update PR's

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..

scottybuzz · 01-11-2007, 02:57 PM

ahh fuck i hope the person who said font type effects google seo was joking.

i changed to wingdings for all my sites last november

alexg · 01-11-2007, 02:58 PM

I really hope you're wrong and rss is not the reason for this...

beemk · 01-11-2007, 03:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SPeRMiNaToR

of couse when I say someone said something retarded I make a fucking typo... figures lol

btw, I use Verdana on ALL of my sites and no pr changes at all on them

$5 submissions · 01-11-2007, 03:07 PM

Wait a little longer. Usually there's some fluctuation during PR update.

Juilan · 01-11-2007, 03:08 PM

Comic Sans has been doing wonders for my page rank!

01-11-2007, 01:19 PM	#1
RhondaN Registered User Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 40	Google dropped our site from PR-6 to PR-0 because of RSS 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. I'm 99% sure that this is why our page rank dropped because some of the news items were from Google News and therefore Google has a syndication link in the news items so they instantly know when someone clicks on a news item where our site is. We are going to move Word Press to a different domain on a different IP, but I still have a coupld of concerns... 1) How long will it take Google to raise our PR back up after we take down the newsfeeds? Are are we permantly screwed by Google? 2) If we link to the new site and have the site link back to us will that contribute to a lower PR rank?

01-11-2007, 01:23 PM	#2
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01-11-2007, 01:28 PM	#6
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01-11-2007, 01:37 PM	#13
DjSap Confirmed User Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 3,869	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! __________________ Blog Themes, TGP Design, Writing Services, Grunt Work ICQ: 66871495

01-11-2007, 01:43 PM	#19
zagi Confirmed User Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 1,238	DjSap that's interesting, I Just checked my site and usually its PR5/6 and now its 0 and Verdana is set as the first font of choice in my CSS file. Where did you see google set this standard? __________________ Managed US/NL Hosting [ [Reality Check Network ] Dell XEON Servers + 1/2/3 TB Packages ICQ: 4-930-562

01-11-2007, 01:25 PM	#3
lopez Confirmed User Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 299	obviously the rss is not the reason. Calm down, then check your PR again tomorrow.

01-11-2007, 01:26 PM	#4
JD Too lazy to set a custom title Industry Role: Join Date: Sep 2003 Posts: 22,651	google doesn't make pr changes over night man. whatever "killed" your PR happened over the last time since the last update

01-11-2007, 01:27 PM	#5
RhondaN Registered User Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 40	Yes we will add a new domain onto a different server just for news items for our staff. If we use a server that is hosting other domains of ours will it decrease those domains PR rankings?

01-11-2007, 01:30 PM	#7
OzMan Confirmed User Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Los Begas Posts: 9,162	take a deep breath..... PR is shuffling right now so wait until the dust settles before panicking. If you are still zero it wasn't RSS that did it. Google doesn't penalize people for using their feeds. You might as well blame whatever shoes you had on today and vow never to wear them again. You might have been in the middle of changing your site when the bot visited or whatever..it will most likely be back up soon.

01-11-2007, 01:31 PM	#8
Jace FBOP Class Of 2013 Industry Role: Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: bumfuck, ky Posts: 35,562	google pr is CONSTANTLY updated, the toolbar is a export they do every 3-4 months check your pr here http://www.iwebtool.com/pagerank_checker and tell me what it says in all the servers

01-11-2007, 01:35 PM	#11
nico-t emperor of my world Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: nethalands Posts: 29,903	listen to the majority here, youre way overreacting and i never heard of a PR change overnight because you got a damn rss feed on your site.... from google themselfs, for lucifers sake!

01-11-2007, 01:36 PM	#12
RhondaN Registered User Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 40	Here is why I think it may have been the RSS feed. After we started pulling in news feeds and also blog feeds using blogsearch.google.com I noticed that google's blogsearch started republishing our feeds that we had just pulled from them and then FeedWordPress republihsed them again our our site as new since they had the same seach keywords. Sort of a never ending newsfeed loop. We instantly corrected this my having our domain name excluded in the new searches.

01-11-2007, 01:40 PM	#14
kaori Confirmed User Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Montreal Posts: 1,569	yeah, mine just dropped to 0 as well... is that verdana thing true?? because that IS what I use..

01-11-2007, 01:45 PM	#20
martinsc Too lazy to set a custom title Industry Role: Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: 127.0.0.1 Posts: 27,047	don't worry, google is still updating... the pr has nothing to do with the rss feeds you have.... relax and check back tomorrow __________________ Make Money

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JD Too lazy to set a custom title Industry Role: Join Date: Sep 2003 Posts: 22,651	of couse when I say someone said something retarded I make a fucking typo... figures lol btw, I use Verdana on ALL of my sites and no pr changes at all on them

01-11-2007, 01:50 PM	#24
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Adult Search Results Confirmed User Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 608	I'm surprised they did that.. could be another underlying problem. __________________ Adult Search Results Working the search engines for your adult website. Currently not accepting new clients ICQ 474143357

01-11-2007, 02:13 PM	#33
edgeprod Permanently Gone Industry Role: Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 10,019	Weird, RSS keeps bumping mine from 0 to 6.

01-11-2007, 02:28 PM	#36
RhondaN Registered User Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 40	Okay, I'm back at 6. Must have been a glitch. Last edited by RhondaN; 01-11-2007 at 02:30 PM..

01-11-2007, 02:37 PM	#39
Sosa In Tushy Land Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Nebraska Posts: 40,149	sure there are other reasons. Wait a few days and see where it is.

01-11-2007, 02:38 PM	#40
HomeFry Confirmed User Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 1,062	I read a while back that Google banned WordPress sites, could have changed since then, but might be worth looking into.

01-11-2007, 02:54 PM	#45
Naughty-Pages Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: SWFL Posts: 4,533	ya know, alot of mine went from a 4 or 5 down to a zero as well.. however using: http://www.iwebtool.com/pagerank_checker it shows a mix of 0's and 4-5's for each of my sites.. i am guessing it's just a fluke for right now as they update PR's 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..

01-11-2007, 02:57 PM	#46
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