Why Does a Penalised Site Keep Its PR?

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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?
#search engine optimization #penalised #site
  • Anyone have any input?
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    • 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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  • 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.


    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.
  • 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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    Why Does a Penalised Site Keep Its PR?

    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.