I just noticed this morning via my Google Toolbar that the ranking on my blog went up to a 4 sometime over the weekend up from 3. This is good news to me. I had problems with Google PR last year and had lost all my juice. All of it! My site was a zero.
At the time I was quite busy and did not care at all about Pagerank so I just left it that way for quite a while. Late last year I decided to merge my 2 blogs, this one, and DoubleTwinz.com. Since I was doing that, I also decided to look into the PageRank issue. I made sure that my permalinks, etc. were all working correctly. And I basically made sure everything was up to par and not in any way violating any of Google’s rules.
Google allows site owners to request a reconsideration of their sites indexing and PageRank if they feel that these things are incorrect. If you would like a reconsideration, first make sure that everything is kosher on your site. This could include:
1. Removing old duplicate content if perhaps you did like I did and moved a blog over. Make sure all content on your site is not duplicate on any other blog.
2. Make sure all your meta data is in place. This would be your description, keyboard, and titles. It is also a good idea to make sure that your images have ALT text. I am horrible at doing that.
3. Carefully review the Google Webmaster Guidelines and make sure that you are not in violation. If you are, fix it.
4. Many say that you should get rid of Text Link Ads because Google greatly penalizes for using them.
Once you are confident that you site is up to par, go to Google Webmaster Central to request a reconsideration of your site. When I did it, it was done within a couple of days. Actually, I think it may have been the next day. I went up from a zero to a 3.
Did your PageRank change this weekend? Was it for better or worse? Have you ever requested reconsideration?
Kris Cain
April 5, 2010 at 7:39 pmYou need to visit Google Websmaster Central at http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/an… and it will tell you what to do.
Good luck.
supermomplace
April 5, 2010 at 7:37 pmI was asking because I have a dating site who use to be on first page on google, suddenly disappear from the search results and drop down to a 2. the site had a blog attach to it, I find out that DH was trying some automated stuff that end up posting duplicate post. So I think we got penalize for duplicate content, but I rip the blog off and all the dups I never “re-submit” I wasn't aware you can submit for reconsideration, I'd like to know how do u do that, coz I've been doing a lotta clean up but not seeing changes.
Kris Cain
April 5, 2010 at 7:01 pmYou would only want to submit for reconsideration if you suddenly LOST all of your PageRank and don't know why. If you went up, then that is great and there is no reason to worry. 🙂
I just noticed that my link got dropped off that was supposed to tell you where to go. I am fixing it now!
supermomplace
April 5, 2010 at 6:59 pmWhat do you mean by “submit for reconsideration”? I did notice that 2 of my sites went from nothing to a 3 but I'm not even sure what I did different, so I'm gonna go review my last step so I can share…
Sharon
April 5, 2010 at 4:23 pmGreat info!