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Why Does a Penalised Site Keep Its PR?

by dreamtoreality
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The first website I ever made (I gave up on it a long time ago) currently has a PR of 4, but I'm fairly sure that it was penalised about 6 months ago.

I never received a message in Webmaster Tools, but judging by the traffic and by what comes up when I type in the titles of a few posts in Google, it's likely that it has been.

Why has it kept it's PR?

Is it a bad idea to place a link from this site to another one of my sites?
#penalised #site
  • Profile picture of the author dreamtoreality
    Anyone have any input?
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    • Profile picture of the author d0r1n
      On April (if I remember well) one of my websites was eaten alive by the penguin. It was PR0 at that time and I just checked it now and it's PR2.

      If I we're you I wouldn't interlink the 2 sites, especially if they're hosted on the same IP address.
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      • Profile picture of the author paulgl
        Why would you not interlink? Sites on the same IP? That's just
        crazy mythology SEO.

        If it was not de-indexed, or had PR lowered due to links, then
        why would it lose PR?

        If the links remained, and you did not do any link selling/buying, the
        PR should stay the same, all things being equal. PR is not
        a competition among sites. Rankings are.

        Paul
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        • Profile picture of the author dreamtoreality
          Originally Posted by paulgl View Post

          Why would you not interlink? Sites on the same IP? That's just
          crazy mythology SEO.

          If it was not de-indexed, or had PR lowered due to links, then
          why would it lose PR?

          If the links remained, and you did not do any link selling/buying, the
          PR should stay the same, all things being equal. PR is not
          a competition among sites. Rankings are.

          Paul
          Hi Paul, so just to confirm, it's fine if I write a new article so it appears on the homepage and then place a contextual link pointing to another one of my sites?

          Thanks
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  • Profile picture of the author UMS
    Originally Posted by dreamtoreality View Post

    The first website I ever made (I gave up on it a long time ago) currently has a PR of 4, but I'm fairly sure that it was penalised about 6 months ago.

    I never received a message in Webmaster Tools, but judging by the traffic and by what comes up when I type in the titles of a few posts in Google, it's likely that it has been.

    Why has it kept it's PR?
    Because PR and rankings are two different beasts. You can have the crappiest content with high PR and the highest quality content with no PR.


    Is it a bad idea to place a link from this site to another one of my sites?
    Like most things, it depends. For example, the type of link (eg: sitewide, contextual etc), the relevance of the content to the site you are linking to etc, etc.
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  • Profile picture of the author Sarevok
    Some of the SEO gurus can better explain, but I think that the PR algorithm is actually more static than people think.

    Now, before people start sending me violent hatemail; consider this.

    I've had a domain for like 3 years with static content, and it's kept the same pagerank.

    I've had another site with constantly new content, with pagerank zero.

    Here's where things get crazy: I moved that content to another blog I had with a PR of 2, and now that domain (weeks later) with new content, still has PR of 2.

    You figure that one out.

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