How to regain the lost PR?

[kittyluver]

I am running a Make Money Online Blog. The blog was PR-4 in the midle of Nov-2007. Then Google changed the alogrithm and slapped my PR to Zero due to my participation in pay per post sites... (smorty, payperpost.com, etc.)

Now I do want to regain my PR for link sales, which earns me at least $100 per month from this blog.

Will anybody suggest ways and means to gain a descent PR in the next updation?

[Bloggeries]

Hi Kitty,

You are definitely not the only person in the situation. for one I would not recommend advertising that you sell text links for PR purposes as the penalty was partly in my mind to inhibit the sales of links for the sole purpose of passing PR. (Which does make sense from Google's point of view ) Hence PPP and other systems were hit.

Basically I would get rid of your pay per post buttons and just keep doing what you're doing. I don't think that there is much that you can do and I don't think that your site was personally penalized. I would just try and make sure that your site conforms with all of Google's terms of service and hope that next update you get your PR back.

Basically I believe that Google is trying to stop the sale of page rank as it undermines their system and they don't want others profiting off it / manipulating the system. It also takes away from the real purpose of the web which is helping people solve problems via information. Instead of working on getting PR so they can sell it hopefully people will work on making their site offer a product or service which is of real value to the end user / searcher who after all are google's primary customers. If people started getting garbage results in google search they'd start using other search engines and then all of google's other products / offerings would take a hit. Quality / relevant search results is what brings us all to google.com in the first place isn't it?

Keep making good posts and doing quality link building with blogs that are from or a compliment to your niche and hope for the best.

That would be my best advice to you.

[amylopan]

Wow, this is a cautionary tale for those of us considering PPP. So sorry that happened. Bummer.

[bochgoch]

I think there's a painful process entailed ...

Get rid of all reference to paid links / posts or adverts (without "nofollow")...
The real pain comes in getting rid of the paid links themselves - G has taken a look at your site and decided you're selling links and (probably) recorded which links are on the site - I can't see them restoring PR until the potentially paid links have gone ... nasty ... refunding link buyers is like a bad nightmare ...

Just my theory, but I can't see how else it could work...

[axeldrummer]

Definitely do a sitemap.... increase outbound links and inbounds ... just like you'd do in a Google AdWords quality score update.

I've had that happen before.

Also, that niche is very volatile and competitive in terms of what is good to them since it's being spammed so much.

[Bloggeries]

Originally Posted by axeldrummer

Definitely do a sitemap.... increase outbound links and inbounds ... just like you'd do in a Google AdWords quality score update.

I've had that happen before.

Also, that niche is very volatile and competitive in terms of what is good to them since it's being spammed so much.

Hi Axel,

So you're saying that you've had PR removed and then next update or so gotten it back?

[axeldrummer]

Yes, but it wasn't in the money making niche.... it was a less competitive one.

Google likes Sitemaps and also how "integrated" you are to the web.

[jshaffstall]

Originally Posted by kittyluver

Now I do want to regain my PR for link sales, which earns me at least $100 per month from this blog.

Will anybody suggest ways and means to gain a descent PR in the next updation?

What Rob said.

Continue selling links, but don't have anything on your site that says you sell links. Don't use any link buying service that uses redirects, since Google can identify those.

Absolute safest is to sell links directly yourself.

Jay

[Bloggeries]

Originally Posted by jshaffstall

What Rob said.

Continue selling links, but don't have anything on your site that says you sell links. Don't use any link buying service that uses redirects, since Google can identify those.

Absolute safest is to sell links directly yourself.

Jay

I'd say the safest is abstinence .... Suddenly I feel like a grade 7 gym teacher. Seriously though weigh the pros and the cons before doing this as you would anything that can have dire consequences.

[damiende]

Originally Posted by jshaffstall

What Rob said.

Continue selling links, but don't have anything on your site that says you sell links. Don't use any link buying service that uses redirects, since Google can identify those.

Absolute safest is to sell links directly yourself.

Jay

Google will bust your ass no matter what. That and when all those potential buyers finds out that they will be punished for it. They will stop buying.


Daniel