Comments on: Rollercoaster Squidoo! http://www.terrydidcott.com/writing/rollercoaster-squidoo/ Author, Internet Marketer Wed, 25 Jan 2012 10:27:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: tel http://www.terrydidcott.com/writing/rollercoaster-squidoo/comment-page-1/#comment-25 tel Fri, 02 Nov 2007 16:33:56 +0000 http://terrydidcott.com/41/rollercoaster-squidoo#comment-25 I heard it mentioned somewhere that if a site or blog lost its PR but isn't selling links, then it's possible to make a request to Google to re-assess the site. Might be worth a go in your case, Trent as your blog was PR4 and doesn't sell links. Was the domain recently swapped from a static home page to a blog? That might have confused the Google brain into thinking it might be used for spamming. Just a thought. Terry I heard it mentioned somewhere that if a site or blog lost its PR but isn’t selling links, then it’s possible to make a request to Google to re-assess the site. Might be worth a go in your case, Trent as your blog was PR4 and doesn’t sell links.

Was the domain recently swapped from a static home page to a blog? That might have confused the Google brain into thinking it might be used for spamming.

Just a thought.

Terry

]]> By: Trent Brownrigg http://www.terrydidcott.com/writing/rollercoaster-squidoo/comment-page-1/#comment-24 Trent Brownrigg Fri, 02 Nov 2007 01:33:52 +0000 http://terrydidcott.com/41/rollercoaster-squidoo#comment-24 > I find it hard to work out, as it has the most one-way links of all my lenses and the most content, yet newer and far less populated lenses kept their PR3. Strange! ======= I am 100% with you on that statement! I have sites and blogs that have been online for years and are loaded with content and inbound links. Yet some of them lost PR with this new update. Then I have sites and blogs that are very new with not much content and little to no inbound links. Some of them gained PR. How does that work? Google is so mysterious in their ways! > I find it hard to work out, as it has the most one-way links of all my lenses and the most content, yet newer and far less populated lenses kept their PR3. Strange!
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I am 100% with you on that statement! I have sites and blogs that have been online for years and are loaded with content and inbound links. Yet some of them lost PR with this new update.

Then I have sites and blogs that are very new with not much content and little to no inbound links. Some of them gained PR.

How does that work?

Google is so mysterious in their ways!

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