PR Drop and Pages Being Deindexed

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I am working on SEO of a 150+ page site. It has had built lots of spammy backlinks (done by an seo guy we have fired) due to which the traffic dipped by around 75% in October when Google Penguin 2.1 was released. I have removed about 30 links manually requesting the blog owners where our spammy links were posted.
These links were very low quality links from pages with low PR, low DA (domain authority) and low PA (page authority). Basically rubbish pages. We are in the process of spotting and removing many more spammy backlinks manually before we can contact google to disavow links but we have noticed the following two issues:

1. Page rank of the site had dropped from 2 to 0. This Matt Cutts article talks about how sites selling links can see their PR dropping. We don't sell links. We don't even sell advertisements.

2. The site is not appearing for our own brand name (e.g. XYZ Inc.) any more than 5 times in search results.
We have had to change URL of about 30 pages but there are pages other than these 30 pages (in total we have 150+ pages) whose URLs do not come anymore in search results when we search for the company name.They are however still visible when we search for longer tail keywords which include the company name.
3. The main author of site does not has google authorship appearing in google SERPs either anymore after being visible there for over 6 months.

Could you please share reasons for these 3 issues?

Thanks in advance
#deindexed #drop #pages #pr drop #spammy backlinks removal
  • Profile picture of the author nik0
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    Hard to say without seeing the site but could it be that he has a lot of pages with thin content?

    For the rest you would need to do a back link analysis to see if the site deserves any PR, if it has no high PR links anymore it would logically drop back to PR0.
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    Originally Posted by syedirfanajmal View Post

    Could you please share reasons for #1 (PR drop)
    Lost links.




    Originally Posted by syedirfanajmal View Post

    #2 (pages being deindexed)?
    Penalty for junk links.
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