THANK YOU SIR, is all I can say about your wonderful reply... :-)
About Google Toolbars green indicator... I read somewhere that Google
does not allow using third party tools to check pagerank so I rely on
it.
Still my concern came from "Dashboard > Statistics > Crawl stats"
option in webmasters tool
where "Your page with the highest PageRank" showed...
If you can see my homepage suffered some loss. Specially in January
On personal note I do believe in patience and good work. And your nice
support just made my belief stronger... :-)
> Hi Rahul-
> Sorry to hear about your PageRank troubles. Google does not contact
> webmasters back about the status of reconsideration reports. If we
> did, it would become much easier for webspammers and the less ethical
> SEO's to test for grey areas in the webmaster guidelines and we don't
> think this is in the best interests of the searching public. However,
> I do understand that this can be very frustrating. The best thing to
> do is recheck your site against the webmaster guidelines, and if you
> find further issues, fix them and submit another reconsideration
> report. If you find no issues, you are probably in the clear.
> The other thing is that the PageRank shown in the Google Toolbar is
> only updated periodically, usually every few months, and is only an
> abstraction from the constantly updated number our algorithms use. In
> the time between updates, any number of things can happen to the other
> sites that link to you, and the sites that link to them (and so on) so
> it can be hard to predict how the little green bar is going to move.
> My advice in this account: focus on writing more of that good content
> that's gotten you links from around the open-source community--then
> pay attention to the traffic you're getting from Google Search, rather
> than the PageRank showing up in the toolbar since traffic is probably
> the most up-to-date indicator of your site's performance.
> And to answer your questions:
> 1. Web crawl errors usually do not correlate to problems with PageRank
> or penalties... they can be signs of broken links or slow server
> performance, so it's still worth looking into them, since visitors are
> more likely to stick around a fast-loading, well-organized site.
> 2. It's only necessary to file a new reconsideration request if you
> have changed something that was previously in violation of the
> webmaster guidelines. Mentioning the things you changed can make the
> request easier to evaluate, and it's certainly appreciated.
> 3. In some cases, you may receive an email or a message in your
> message center in Webmaster Tools. But really, the best way to check
> if you may be penalized is still to watch your traffic from Google,
> design your site for the users rather than search engines, and
> periodically reread the webmaster guidelines to check that what you're
> doing couldn't be interpreted as deviating from them in some way.
> 4a. We don't reply... so, I guess the worst and best cases would both
> be "forever!"
> b. This depends on a lot of things, and I don't really know how to
> answer this in a satisfactory way. Sorry... maybe some other
> webmasters could chime in to share their experiences with
> reconsideration requests?
> And, as I promised, here's a link to the webmaster guidelines. :-)http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=3...
> If you have questions about specific changes or issues you've had on
> your site, I'd be happy to take another look. Also, I'm sure the
> other folks in the group would be happy to tackle them, too.
> Best of luck with your blog!
> -Bergy
> On Mar 6, 11:10 am, Aaron Pratt wrote:
> > This the domain?
> >http://www.devilsworkshop.org/
> > On Mar 6, 9:47 am, Rahul Bansal wrote:
> > > On Mar 6, 7:45 pm, Rahul ~conqueror of all miseries~ wrote:
> > > > Hello All,
> > > > To start with I have a blog which had PR4 in Dec 2007. Then it dropped
> > > > to PR3 just when I was expecting it to gain, as I got quality
> > > > backlinks from nice sites and people from open-source all over the
> > > > world. Not to mention separately none of the link/review till this
> > > > date is purchased.
> > > > Actually I have no money to purchase anything to be frank! :-)
> > > > As usual when something goes wrong like other people I have googled
> > > > and found text-link ads can harm a blog. I had 2-3 text-links on my
> > > > blog which I immediately removed. Next I made everything sure about
> > > > all guidelines and filled a reconsideration request.
> > > > Forget about reconsideration I haven't yet received any response after
> > > > 4 weeks.
> > > > Actually I still get good traffic from google so I am not completely
> > > > thrown out. My only worry is - drop in page rank just when I was
> > > > expecting it to rise. Also not considerable rise in traffic which I
> > > > guess is a consequence of PR drop.
> > > > After filing reinclusion request I removed many wordpress plugin
> > > > trying to over optimize my site (which is a wordpress blog). They
> > > > reduced webcrawl error from 1000's to 100's.
> > > > So I have following questions if anyone can answer please....
> > > > 1. Does web crawl error have something to do with pagerank or penalty?
> > > > 2. Am I supposed to file a new request mentioning all moves I made
> > > > since last request?
> > > > Act I do not want to overload support people at Google Webmaster, so I
> > > > am refraining myself from doing that.
> > > > 3. Is there any way to know that if we had been penalized and if
> > > > penalized duration of penalty?
> > > > 4. How much time in worst case it takes to...
> > > > a. get a reply about reconsideration request?
> > > > b. revoking penalties if any?
> > > > Thanks for giving time to read about my irony... :-(
> > > > -Rahul
