STUPID: Password protected my PR 5 site, now it's de-indexed and no PR
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Okay, I did something really stupid.
I'm rebuilding my PR5 site from the ground up. And it was going to take me some time. I should've redirected the home page to a temporary page through htaccess, but I was having issues accessing the site myself, since my IP seems to keep changing, so I simply password protected the site. I figured, it would only be for a couple of weeks. But I guess it's been a few.
Stupid, stupid.
Now Google has de-indexed my site, and my PR 5 site is now a PR n/a. I guess this all happened during a scheduled PR update around now.
Stupid me.
I figure, once I get my site back online, I can surely get indexed again, because I wasn't de-indexed because of a penalty, per se, but because my site was inaccessible.
But will I get my PR 5 back?
I've googled around and everything I've found is about trying to recover a penalized site, but that's not my situation: I stupidly blocked Google from having access to my site.
I'm assuming that if I just generate fresh content and build some high quality backlinks that my site will come back. But I have this one really high quality backlink, a contextual backlink from a PR 7 page on an authority website that links to my site, and I'm worried that Google won't value it anymore.
So, if Google de-indexes an inaccessible site and drops its PR to n/a, when Google re-indexes the site again, will Google still count a previous high quality backlink before the site got de-indexed? In essence, once my site's back online, can I get my PR 5 status back again? Or after being de-indexed, will I be starting over from scratch?
Where is the head-banging-against-the-wall smilie, when you need it...
I'm rebuilding my PR5 site from the ground up. And it was going to take me some time. I should've redirected the home page to a temporary page through htaccess, but I was having issues accessing the site myself, since my IP seems to keep changing, so I simply password protected the site. I figured, it would only be for a couple of weeks. But I guess it's been a few.
Stupid, stupid.
Now Google has de-indexed my site, and my PR 5 site is now a PR n/a. I guess this all happened during a scheduled PR update around now.
Stupid me.
I figure, once I get my site back online, I can surely get indexed again, because I wasn't de-indexed because of a penalty, per se, but because my site was inaccessible.
But will I get my PR 5 back?
I've googled around and everything I've found is about trying to recover a penalized site, but that's not my situation: I stupidly blocked Google from having access to my site.
I'm assuming that if I just generate fresh content and build some high quality backlinks that my site will come back. But I have this one really high quality backlink, a contextual backlink from a PR 7 page on an authority website that links to my site, and I'm worried that Google won't value it anymore.
So, if Google de-indexes an inaccessible site and drops its PR to n/a, when Google re-indexes the site again, will Google still count a previous high quality backlink before the site got de-indexed? In essence, once my site's back online, can I get my PR 5 status back again? Or after being de-indexed, will I be starting over from scratch?
Where is the head-banging-against-the-wall smilie, when you need it...
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