For most of the time I have been blogging, both in blogspot, in afatih.wordpress.com and here in self-hosted blog, I enjoy the Google PR 5. It’s because, I have regularly updated my blog and more importantly I have a relatively unique content. The newly created website at http://www.fatihsyuhud.net even enjoys PR 5 very quickly (less than a month).
For a few months however, I have been ‘slapped’ by Google. The Google PR of this blog drops down to 3. The reason is clear: paid linking. I put text link ads from text-link-ads.com and another UK company. Putting a paid link is a gross violation as far as Google goes. Google PR’s drop has severely affected my SERP (search engine result page) as well. At least to me.
So, once I wanted to regain my PR, I remove all the paid linking ads from this site. The second step was: I went to Google Webmaster Tools following all the precedures, including submitting sitemap and verified it, and requested for “reconsideration request’ by honestly telling them that I have removed all stuffs that might violate Google TOS.
The third step I took was moving my non-www url address into www. Have a look at the browser, you’d find this blog URL with www: http://www.fatihsyuhud.com instead of http://fatihsyuhud.com. Matt Cutts, the Google senior guy, once said in his blog that a domain with www is better to Google search engine than a non-www one.
Note, however, that this www thing is only applied to the primary domain only such as fatihsyuhud.com. It’s not applied to a blog which use subdomain such as islam.fatihsyuhud.com, afatih.wordpress.com or afatihsyuhud.blogspot.com for the last case, you’d better use non-www; thus I use http://islam.fatihsyuhud.com, http://afatih.wordpress.com (for sub-domain) but I use http://www.fatihsyuhud.com (for primary domain)
For this change to happen, first I change the wordpress URL setting in the Setting -> General -> WordPress address (URL) ->change into http://www.fatihsyuhud.com.
The last step, I use Redirection Plugins to force the change and redirect all previous URLs from non-www into www as advised by Google Webmaster Tools. This step is called a 301 redirect to tell the search engines that the site or page has moved permanently to a new URL, this way all previous pages links which were indexed by Google will not be broken and will be redirected to the new links instead .
All was done yesterday. And today I am surprised to find out my Google PR is back to 5! I hope it will never go down again.
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Ads which violate Google Webmaster guidelines are:
- Text links ads
- Paid review
- Personal ads – ads in which advertiser communicate directly with you.
Solution, you may still put a personal ads provided you put a “rel=”nofollow” attribute.
Further reading:
- Google webmaster guidelines for general guide
- Reunifying Duplicate content a good advice from the Official Google Webmaster team on duplicate content within the same website / blog
Pretty much new thing to me. I don’t even think of how to improve my GPR. It was 0 when I first started blogging, and it’s still 0 now, after 2 months blogging.All I know and can do is posting my articles regularly. Reading this just makes me think how little my knowledge and experience in this blogging realm. It feels like I have got soooo many new things to explore, absorb, and practice. Seems I need extra patience to be a pro. So little time I have, so many stuffs to learn…
Btw, how important is a sitemap for us? How can we make it?
#well, i’ll write a simple guide soon on how to make sitemap in a blogspot blog
I just know that if we use www is better than without www? it’s new info for me.
#just have a look at some big blogs or websites. most of them use www instead of non-www for their primary domain (www.example.com instead of example.com). start with google.com. If you open google.com, you’ll be redirected to http://www.google.com that’s not without reason.
Congratulation you have done it very well. I have been blogging for 10 months until now and still have 0 PR
. Maybe there are too many copy paste articles in my pages. Anyway thanks for the lesson.
Ouch.. Think’s that Google has update their PR (did they?), anyway congrats sir, and waiting for your tutorial of Blogspot’s sitemap
Congrats man. Now this blog is PR 5. We all understand how much you work hard behind this site. It takes a lot of work to have a Website site like this
great PR mas fatih..
senangnya punya PR kaya mas fatih…
kenapa PR nya bisa turun ya mas ????
padahal visitor mas fatih perharinya ribuan, sedangkan saya banyak mengunjungi ke blog PR 3 pengunjung seharinya max 250,!!!!
apakah PR pengaruh utamanya pada google mas???
belum tahu ni mas maklum newbieeeeeeee
#PR tak selalu sebanding lurus dg traffic. traffic terkait dg konten yg banyak. idealnya, konten / artikel banyak + PR tinggi = sangat banyak visitor. setelah PR blog ini balik ke 5, visitor jadi 3x lipat
Wah hebat