How to Get Back Your Google Page Rank- Request For Reconsideration
How do I make a request to Google for reconsideration of my site?
Have you decided that your page rank IS important to you? It might be if that is key factor in attracting advertisers to your site.
If you have been using PayPerPost, Text Link Ads or Text Link Brokers and your formally healthy page rank is gone and you now have page rank zero, then you most likely have a penalty. it is fairly easy to have penalty removed and have some of not all of your PR restored by Google.
Steps To Getting Your Page Rank Restored By Google
1. Add nofollow tags to perceived paid links ( i.e. PPP blog posts). Instruction for add no follow tags to your posts. I would not outright delete your PayPerPost posts as they add content your your site. You can also flat out get rid of the active link in post.
2. Get rid of Text Link Ad scripts and remove Text Link Broker links. Weight income you get vs. perceived value of your page rank.
3. Add no follow tags to your other paid ads. if you have advertisers who have bought links or buttons, banners, add nofollow tags to their links. Inform advertisers you have done so.
4. Remove any PayPerPost logos, etc.
5. “Blogger Disclosure” you may want to re-word or remove. Some sites actually use an image or graphic of the text.
Go to Google site and request reconsideration. Go Here Sign in with your Google account and add your site. ( they verify you are in fact owner).
State your case. Don’t get emotional or give them sob story. They don;t care,. Just state facts. Tell them what you have done and ask for them to reconsider your page rank. State the you do not have any paid ads on your site. period.
If your site is not included in Google’s search results, and you believe that it does not violate our webmaster guidelines, you can ask Google to reconsider your site for inclusion in the index.
In addition, if you recently purchased a domain that you think may have violated our guidelines before you owned it, you can use the reconsideration request form to let us know that you recently acquired the site and that it now adheres to the guidelines.
To request reconsideration of your site:
1. Sign in to Google Webmaster Tools. 2. Under Tools, click Request reconsideration and follow the steps.
Hi Lisa,
Thanks for the tips. My pagerank was just slashed from 5 to 3, possibly because I removed adsense and keep the text link ad.
Will see whether I will get pardon :).
Cheers,
Bambang
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Removing your AdSense wouldn’t have done any to affect page rank. if you still have a TLA script up and running with no nofollow tags I am surprised you any page rank at all.
Is possible they have missed the TLA ( and I am assuming you are talking about ANOTHER blog- not the one you left in post) and rankings really are a PR3 which makes the most sense. I am convinced that an old PR5 is now an Pr3/4.
If you want your page rank back you could remove TLA from the blog and double check for anything you may have missed- an old PPP or paid ad, etc. resubmit. cry mea culpa, etc. Takes a couple of to get PR it back . If you are making so much money from TLA and are fine then may not be worth it.
I really do think if it was the TLA you would have PR0, however… I would wait and see what happens next update.
Hi Lisa,
Thanks for the reply. I just removed the TLA and referral link to TLA, and sent request to Google following your suggestion.
Let’s see what will happen next. Another factor that probably affected the sharp decline was my Technorati rank that has dropped from 260 something a few months back to just 199 now.
Posted an article about the issue, with a link to your site. Cheers.
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I noticed today that I lost my pagerank completely. From PR 3 to N/A. The only thing a changed is the nofollow tag. I have no ads on my site or any other commercial content.
You would not lose your page rank from allowing links in your comments section to be followed. The nofollow tag was originally added to blog templates to discourage spam and not Google initiated.
I took a quick look at your blog and you have 500 internal server errors all over the place. it is possible that your rank really is PR3 if the problem has existed for a while and not a temporary glitch.
You also have very few backlinks. If you get your blog working properly I would wait until next update to submit if you still have no PR. In the meant time try and get some backlinks. Comment on other Dofollow blogs, submit to quality directories if you haven’t done so and work on getting others to link to your content.
Hi Lisa, thanks for this article.
My PR3 has gone down into nothing since March, I think. I used to do paid to block a lot from Dec 07 up til my PR hit 0. What still nag me, why some blogs who r doing much more paid to blog than mine still have high PR or still retain theirs? even they don’t apply no follow link.
About the #3 suggestion, so is it ok to add no follow link to those already posted paid to blog posts? Won’t it cause complaint from the other sides?
Thanks in advance for any help
please
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