PR went from numbers to N/A
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Hi
During the recent Google PR update, 10 of my teensy network of 24 domains went from ranked to N/A. Seeing that this is almost 50% of my network, it was quite a blow.
I have been racking my brains trying to figure out what/how/why....
I need some advice/opinions.
Some facts though, before you start saying the obvious.
1. These domains did NOT lose their link juice since the time I bought them. Their links are still strong (I check with majesticseo, then pull the links into linkassistant and check the PRs of the linking pages)
2. The sites are still indexed, although if you do a site:thedomain, it does NOT show the home page, but only internal pages. ONE of the sites is completely deindexed, some sites have basically lost the indexing of all the pages (just one or two pages indexed)
3. The 10 domains are registered with different domain registrars, all have privacy protection
4. All of them have new content on - new wordpress install and about 3 articles from article directories. I tried to set them up not to have a footprint but it is difficult with Wordpress, they have the same contact pages and privacy pages, but different templates and widgets. I did copy them from the same WP master site and some spurious pages generated by a template that I tried previously got copied along. This could be a footprint. HOWEVER, about 2-3 of the sites that retained their PR used the same setup and have the same 'footprint' pages.
5. Here is the clincher though - all of these sites are hosted on an SEO host. All nameservers are private nameservers, so this means that each site is hosted on its own nameserver, although the underlying nameservers that you can see in the whois records are all the same. But I have 14 domains on the same SEO host, and 4 kept their PR.....some even with those 'footprint' pages
I suspect it is a combination of the SEO hosting and the footprint left by the spurious URLs/pages but I just want to know if anyone else has experienced anything like this?
I experienced something similar when Google deindexed all the blogs that I put into the 1waylinks network, but this was done through a manual investigation and I didn't protect the domain registration details - I used the same email address.
Surely Google doesn't use the webspam team to do PR checks as well?
My inclination for going ahead with building my own blog network would be to rather reconstruct the original content from the wayback machine, OR to put 100% original content on the sites AND/OR to actually stop using Wordpress and rather use other methods to build the sites (Joomla, Drupal etc)
Any thoughts/advice on this?
During the recent Google PR update, 10 of my teensy network of 24 domains went from ranked to N/A. Seeing that this is almost 50% of my network, it was quite a blow.
I have been racking my brains trying to figure out what/how/why....
I need some advice/opinions.
Some facts though, before you start saying the obvious.
1. These domains did NOT lose their link juice since the time I bought them. Their links are still strong (I check with majesticseo, then pull the links into linkassistant and check the PRs of the linking pages)
2. The sites are still indexed, although if you do a site:thedomain, it does NOT show the home page, but only internal pages. ONE of the sites is completely deindexed, some sites have basically lost the indexing of all the pages (just one or two pages indexed)
3. The 10 domains are registered with different domain registrars, all have privacy protection
4. All of them have new content on - new wordpress install and about 3 articles from article directories. I tried to set them up not to have a footprint but it is difficult with Wordpress, they have the same contact pages and privacy pages, but different templates and widgets. I did copy them from the same WP master site and some spurious pages generated by a template that I tried previously got copied along. This could be a footprint. HOWEVER, about 2-3 of the sites that retained their PR used the same setup and have the same 'footprint' pages.
5. Here is the clincher though - all of these sites are hosted on an SEO host. All nameservers are private nameservers, so this means that each site is hosted on its own nameserver, although the underlying nameservers that you can see in the whois records are all the same. But I have 14 domains on the same SEO host, and 4 kept their PR.....some even with those 'footprint' pages
I suspect it is a combination of the SEO hosting and the footprint left by the spurious URLs/pages but I just want to know if anyone else has experienced anything like this?
I experienced something similar when Google deindexed all the blogs that I put into the 1waylinks network, but this was done through a manual investigation and I didn't protect the domain registration details - I used the same email address.
Surely Google doesn't use the webspam team to do PR checks as well?
My inclination for going ahead with building my own blog network would be to rather reconstruct the original content from the wayback machine, OR to put 100% original content on the sites AND/OR to actually stop using Wordpress and rather use other methods to build the sites (Joomla, Drupal etc)
Any thoughts/advice on this?
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