Google Pagerank Destroyed

Client Joined: Sep 18, 2004 Posts: 62

Last week when the servers went down, my Google, MSN and Yahoo pagerank went down dramatically. On Google, it went from #3 in search results to #743!! Evil or Very Mad

Anyone have any advice?

Involved Joined: Oct 09, 2006 Posts: 413 Location: UK

ouch.
It might be something to do with the server actually physically moving location.....

maybe, just a stab in the dark

registered · Site Admin Joined: Jun 04, 2004 Posts: 6437

Doesn't make sense. My server went down last week, and pagerank and search results haven't changed. Not sure if we're on the same server though - how long were you down?

Worker Joined: Dec 05, 2006 Posts: 180

well mines 0 Sad

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Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2007 7:41 pm

kguske,

hmm...that gives me a little hope. Maybe google tried indexing while the server was down and this is temporary?

Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2007 7:52 pm

No one knows for sure, but I can't believe it would make it zero because the server was unaccessible for a short period, even if it did look at the site while it was down. How long was it down?

registered · Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2007 10:53 pm

While I don't believe this is the case, Google could have blacklisted your site. Can't do much about it until their indexes are back.
Perhaps they've changed their page rank algorithm too

Site Admin/Owner Joined: Aug 27, 2002 Posts: 17088

Blarneystone,

I show you are 5/10. What were you before?

Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2007 2:13 pm

Hi all, looks like I spoke too soon. The pagerank came back sometime this morning. Sorry I wasn't patient enough - looks like my site gets indexed about 1 time per 6 days.

I'm back to #3 in the search results.

I have developed a theory... that when a site gets indexed and it's down, Google, etc don't remove it entirely, but instead push the rank to 1000 or so. That way, the spider knows to re-index.

Client Joined: Jan 29, 2004 Posts: 624

Google and the rest put a down site in cache I think or it's shuffled off to the Wayback Machine lol Anyway 743 would be good for me and it's not a competition, is it?

New Member Joined: Aug 18, 2010 Posts: 21

I think it is a temporary error..or maybe google have black listed your site

registered · Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2010 5:57 pm

hhmmmmm... almost three years after-the-fact you post this reply? Interesting.

Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2010 6:34 am

And then there will be changes..will no one notice? Twisted Evil

I think we will!