PR/Google question
 

Assuming your domain gets penalized by google, will you experience PR0? Anyone have a real experience on this? No just theories :-)

This is quite rare, but yes they can automatically or manually change your PR to 0 until your "violation of their terms" is resolved on your end. If you're worrying about PR updating on one of your sites, give it 2 months, and if it's still PR0, seek assistance.

It won't automatically. But it can.

They seem to have many ways to ban a domain, one which includes forcing the PR to 0.

But I have a PR5 domain which has been removed from the index. The PR still shows. But it is not returned for any searches.

Extreme, I think your site is being affected by the most recent "over-optimization filter", which is a different beast.

See below, answered the wrong question, lol.

ok didn't see this part. If you know what you were listed in Google (a keyword phrase) try this as a test, it was working when the search engine news went to press.
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Start by entering your keywords in a Google search but add an exclude for a unique string of characters like this; search for...


keyword keyword -fdafdsa
...the -fdafdsa text doesn't matter, it's just a string of nonsense characters. If you see your site under these conditions, but not otherwise, it's very likely the OOP is in effect for that phrase on your page.

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Not sure if that still works, but might want to try and see if you are effected by that.

No, It's penalized.

This has been confirmed by Google.

Interesting thoughts. From what I have seen the PR doesn't change automatically, but I'm not sure if there are exceptions.

I have a feeling that on this issue google doesn't have a standard strategy. Meaning, there are cases that silently "ban" your domain (by making it not to appear anywhere) while you retain the PR and your site still remains indexed (but in reality gets no traffic). The logic behind this is that a SE spammer will instantly abandon a confirmed banned domain. That's just my theory though.

Google's latest trick is to ban a site and leave its pr showing.I have seen some pr7 sites banned but still show the pr.
To see if you have a ban or not type

link:http://www.yourdomain.com into google.If it says

Your search - link:http://www.yourdomain.com/ - did not match any documents then you have been banned.

If it still shows backlinks then you are just penalised or you no longer rate for your kws.
If you buy links from sites for their PR beware of this as banned sites will not pass PR