Hello everybody. I recently just discovered my page rank was reset to
0 for some reason. Just a month or two ago, it was at a page rank of
4. Can anybody please help me? My website is http://www.alexsdbzrpg.com Why would it be reset from 4 to 0?
Loss of page rank is often a sign that your inbound links have been
demoted. In your case, every chance that's true. For a niche site, you
have gained an awful lot of links very quickly but most of these are
from directories, link pages, link schemes etc. very much devalued
currency.
You might also give some thought to your outbound links, whether you
need them and if the use of rel="nofollow" might be worthwhile.
Otherwise, you could end up with a larger problem than the loss of a
few green pixels.
> Hello everybody. I recently just discovered my page rank was reset to
> 0 for some reason. Just a month or two ago, it was at a page rank of
> 4. Can anybody please help me? My website ishttp://www.alexsdbzrpg.com > Why would it be reset from 4 to 0?
What do you mean? Being hosted on IGN Entertainment and featured in
the media has probably given my site a lot of attention and thus a lot
of links but we really haven't done anything in the last month or so
that would factor into this so why would it go from page rank of 4 to
0 if these links were "devalued"? What does a bigger problem mean?
Chibcha means that a lot of your backlinks are coming from devalued
sources. I searched the top four pages in Yahoo and all were backlinks
from directories. Those have been devalued and may be having an effect
on your pagerank. I can't condone or say this is bad because I do the
same thing if I have free time but you must be aware of how worthless
most of these are and take it for what it is. Are your rankings
hurting?
> What do you mean? Being hosted on IGN Entertainment and featured in
> the media has probably given my site a lot of attention and thus a lot
> of links but we really haven't done anything in the last month or so
> that would factor into this so why would it go from page rank of 4 to
> 0 if these links were "devalued"? What does a bigger problem mean?
> Chibcha means that a lot of your backlinks are coming from devalued
> sources. I searched the top four pages in Yahoo and all were backlinks
> from directories. Those have been devalued and may be having an effect
> on your pagerank. I can't condone or say this is bad because I do the
> same thing if I have free time but you must be aware of how worthless
> most of these are and take it for what it is. Are your rankings
> hurting?
> On Sep 13, 5:00 pm, Xander756 wrote:
> > What do you mean? Being hosted on IGN Entertainment and featured in
> > the media has probably given my site a lot of attention and thus a lot
> > of links but we really haven't done anything in the last month or so
> > that would factor into this so why would it go from page rank of 4 to
> > 0 if these links were "devalued"? What does a bigger problem mean?
> Chibcha means that a lot of your backlinks are coming from devalued
> sources. I searched the top four pages in Yahoo and all were backlinks
> from directories. Those have been devalued and may be having an effect
> on your pagerank. I can't condone or say this is bad because I do the
> same thing if I have free time but you must be aware of how worthless
> most of these are and take it for what it is. Are your rankings
> hurting?
> On Sep 13, 5:00 pm, Xander756 wrote:
> > What do you mean? Being hosted on IGN Entertainment and featured in
> > the media has probably given my site a lot of attention and thus a lot
> > of links but we really haven't done anything in the last month or so
> > that would factor into this so why would it go from page rank of 4 to
> > 0 if these links were "devalued"? What does a bigger problem mean?
> Chibcha means that a lot of your backlinks are coming from devalued
> sources. I searched the top four pages in Yahoo and all were backlinks
> from directories. Those have been devalued and may be having an effect
> on your pagerank. I can't condone or say this is bad because I do the
> same thing if I have free time but you must be aware of how worthless
> most of these are and take it for what it is. Are your rankings
> hurting?
> On Sep 13, 5:00 pm, Xander756 wrote:
> > What do you mean? Being hosted on IGN Entertainment and featured in
> > the media has probably given my site a lot of attention and thus a lot
> > of links but we really haven't done anything in the last month or so
> > that would factor into this so why would it go from page rank of 4 to
> > 0 if these links were "devalued"? What does a bigger problem mean?
> Chibcha means that a lot of your backlinks are coming from devalued
> sources. I searched the top four pages in Yahoo and all were backlinks
> from directories. Those have been devalued and may be having an effect
> on your pagerank. I can't condone or say this is bad because I do the
> same thing if I have free time but you must be aware of how worthless
> most of these are and take it for what it is. Are your rankings
> hurting?
> On Sep 13, 5:00 pm, Xander756 wrote:
> > What do you mean? Being hosted on IGN Entertainment and featured in
> > the media has probably given my site a lot of attention and thus a lot
> > of links but we really haven't done anything in the last month or so
> > that would factor into this so why would it go from page rank of 4 to
> > 0 if these links were "devalued"? What does a bigger problem mean?
Hi Xander756
Keeping in mind that we only update PageRank for the Toolbar a few
times a year, it might be that there was just some "fluke" with
regards to your site right when we updated it. For example, it could
be that at that moment, the www- or non-www version was more relevant,
now that other version is. At any rate, I don't think you need to
worry too much about that :). Two things that you could do are setting
a preferred domain name in Webmaster Tools if you haven't done so
already and setting up a canonical redirect to that preferred
version.
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