My PR dropped from 5 to 0 !

[habbydhillon]

Dear Warriors,

I have been trying to make some money online for a few years now and I was really happy to get a couple of my sites to PR 5.

Then I had a bright idea to take the single pages down and replace them with a content filled wordpress.

Within days my sites all dropped to 0.

What did I do wrong and is there anything I can do to reverse this bad news !

Thanks for your help

habby dhillon

[bgmacaw]

Check where your incoming links are going to other than your domain index. If there are any, do 301 redirects to the new pages or to the index. This should take care of the problem over time as Google re-spiders your site and it goes through a PR update.

Here's how you can do the 301 Redirect: 301 Redirect - How to create Redirects

[Jon Alexander]

or alternatively recreate the missing pages as standalone html files on your site.

[habbydhillon]

Hi,

Thanks for your input I will try the html page and the redirect. It is really upsetting because it takes a long time especially when you work at my pace !

thanks
habby dhillon

[luckycharmz336]

You will be fine in a few weeks, Wordpress often times automatically forwards ::: YOURNAME.COM ::: to ::: YOURNAME.COM ::: - which drops the host www

[habbydhillon]

Hi Luckycharm,

Thanks for that info, that makes me feel a lot better !

habby dhillon

[luckycharmz336]

Were these sub pages that dropped in value? If so the other posts were correct and you need to do a 301 redirect. You need to point any old file names to new file names. Even if your website was previously a yoursite.com / index.html and now it is yoursite.com / index.php - you should redirect your old index file to your new index file.

[luckycharmz336]

If you want, PM me the address and I will double check and tell you for sure what is going on

[mohitsmith]

ah, thats happened due to broken link, as you have changed the content, both the links of your site, inbound links & outbound links got broken.

Quickly resubmit your Sitemap.xml to Google Webmaster Central, don't delay...
I may help you!
Best Wishes.

[habbydhillon]

Hi Mohitsmith,

Thanks for that I have resubmitted all the sites and will let you know how its going.

Luckycharm, these were all main pages no subpages

Thanks

habby dhillon

[miamisq]

Google dancing is happening every now and then. It is very scary because tomorrow we might be the night in line.

[IowaGal]

Originally Posted by habbydhillon

Dear Warriors,

I have been trying to make some money online for a few years now and I was really happy to get a couple of my sites to PR 5.

Then I had a bright idea to take the single pages down and replace them with a content filled wordpress.

Within days my sites all dropped to 0.

What did I do wrong and is there anything I can do to reverse this bad news !

Thanks for your help

habby dhillon

If possible, I would replace those pages with the original content ASAP.

Once you have a good ranking on your pages you never, ever want to make large changes to those pages.

Instead, use the new information as additional pages. This is one of the worst things I see people do time and time again (aside from changing their domain names). The intention is always good, and oftentimes logical, but as far as the search engines are concerned, it's bad news.

One of the reasons your PR may have dropped so rapidly was because a well-known black hat SEO technique is to first create a page that the search engines love, and then, once that's ranked and indexed well, replace it with another page.

It could be that Google believes you are trying to trick them in some way.

Just try to put the pages back the way they were if you can.

- Kristine

[CTABUK]

That's actually the best advice you could wish for from Iowagal, but also, try to get out of the Mind Meld over pagerank, if you are relying on the toolbar to see if you are creeping back up, then you will have a long long wait. Use Google Tools and forget the greenbar

[habbydhillon]

Hi,

Iowagal and CTABUK thanks for your input, I have resubmitted the new sitemaps and hope I will get the PR back but for now I think as you guys say I will just try to work on the sites and forget the dreaded page rank !

habby dhillon

[dmderoeck]

On this note, you may want to try a plugin that handles Canonical url's such as this one Enforce www. Preference Tempus Fugit by Mark Jaquith

Originally Posted by luckycharmz336

You will be fine in a few weeks, Wordpress often times automatically forwards ::: YOURNAME.COM ::: to ::: YOURNAME.COM ::: - which drops the host www

[habbydhillon]

Hi Dan,

Thanks for that plugin, Ive just got it and didnt know anything about it. Thanks for the tip !

[habbydhillon]

Hi Dan,

I have just been reading that blog Preference Tempus and there are some interesting facts there, that a lot of people miss. So thanks once again !

Habby Dhillon

[wiresaw]

Nice tips, thanks for sharing I have also a site that drop the PR, but now I know what to do..

[steveniam]

Just to share. When I convert my html site to a self-hosted wordpress blog, my PR went from 3 to 0 within a day. It take about 2 months before I get it to PR2.

Another funny thing is recently, I convert a auto-blog which is a PR 0 to wordpress blog and it immediately get a PR2

I am still puzzle - it seem there is no logic.