Have you been hit by google?

[ashukairy]

It seems as if Googles updates are kicking in, and some people are really feeling the pinch. I know some people that dropped from a page rank of 5 to 2 in a matter of days, adn they don't anticipate it's going to get better. Are you struggling with the same thing? Any advice on what to do?

[brandrocker]

Any advice on what to do?

Check if there is anything objectionable in your website. If not, simply update your site more frequently and try to build links. You are likely to regain your PR in the next update.

[coolguy27]

PR ranking is somewhat based on quality links the site have....

Build quality links and wait for the next update...

[scanmonkey]

Originally Posted by ashukairy

It seems as if Googles updates are kicking in, and some people are really feeling the pinch. I know some people that dropped from a page rank of 5 to 2 in a matter of days, adn they don't anticipate it's going to get better. Are you struggling with the same thing? Any advice on what to do?

How is your serp position? Any significant changes?

[Rephrase]

One of my websites dropped from PR2 to PR0... another one just stayed in PR2. Actually, almost all my websites stayed in their past PR (or maybe they haven't been updated yet).

[ashukairy]

Our company redirected its overall positioning in recent months, which really impacted our keyword rankings and PR. It's like we are starting from scratch, which after months of gaining up to 6 PR on some of our main pages is extremely disheartening! There's no way around it if you begin to focus your efforts and wish to rank for more specific words. Even the additional content we had on our site became quite irrelevant to our new direction. So it's a matter of re-building more relevant content on the site, and optimizing the site with the specific keywords we would like to rank well with. Wish me luck!

[cyberkid]

We got fried just for changing ecommerce platforms. The entire product line is database driven only we've updated to a more robust software program (aspdotnetstorefront) using the same titles, descriptions and keywords we'd used for the past ten years, and it’s like we no longer exist? I'm dumbfounded how slow the search engines are to recognize change. Yahoo still shows an HTML page, Google routinely shows the wrong result for any given search term. It's utterly amazing to me how Google can't even correct its own errors when the title it gives as a result fails to match the search term. ... MSN/Live is the only system to purge the old HTML site and to properly index the new site.... What's more it is nearing the end of the summer and the changeover occurred early last spring. I've used sitemaps, Google Base, yet again we've been indexed with Google since it began, and we've all but been erased.

[incrediblehelp]

cyberkid did you redirect the old URLs to the new ones? If not, it is not the SE's fault.

[cyberkid]

The 301 problem was rooted in a way I lacked the expertise to nail every URL. I had to change from an Apache server to an IIS server. The options on the IIS Server were to simply redirect the root web pages from the HTML links to the new default.aspx Home Page. The sub-domains I was better able to control since I could forward to the respective sub-section of the new web. When the new site went live the server load was causing problems with page loads. We can go a gigabyte in bandwidth on some days. However, where before I had used sub-domains they would no longer be used in the new asp.net site. Basically, I went cold turkey on the old HTML site and dumped every HTMl link in hopes that the new site would be indexed in a timely way. I still have the old HTML site saved and would like to bring it back to life if I could find the right ecommerce software to integrate with it. I have my new product database built on an SQL platform, but the new (aspdnsf) ecommerce platform does not support the integration with the old site in a way such as OS Commerce could. Although aspdotnetstorefront now supports integration with DNN... I want to find an SQL ecommerce platform like OS Commerce (MySQL) that I can use with the SQL server to propagate a new product catalog that I could use with the HTML site which is ready for Freddy when it comes to indexing. I would then only need to copy and paste the product catalog pages into their respective web pages to go live again.

The major problem and my own complaint is that it is a pain staking process to input the meta data for each new category and sub-category listing at the new site. It's like shrink wrapping an HTML site to fit inside an asp.net databank. MSN/Live read the asp.net framework and knew how to index the pages in accordance with their hierarchy and captured the meta data that was uploaded with bulk upload files. It even had enough logical sense to correctly determine the path of each sub-category and read the respective name spaces for each and every category section. Google used an algo that defies itself by creating an array of data that was so error ridden that I've reacted as I have to try an reset my own senses so I can fix the problem of filling in every detail from alternate image tags, to text tags, and meta data for at least 500 new pages of data, even though all the sections are named and all the products are fully tagged.

[Webnauts]

My sites have never been hit by Google.
Is a PR update running? I have noticed....

[braver55b]

It could be that google yet again changed their algorithm, check your keywords and content.