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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
October 11, 2009 at 12:13 am
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
October 11, 2009 at 1:20 am
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.
October 11, 2009 at 6:43 am
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.
October 11, 2009 at 2:18 pm
Ouch.. Think’s that Google has update their PR (did they?), anyway congrats sir, and waiting for your tutorial of Blogspot’s sitemap
October 11, 2009 at 2:47 pm
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
October 11, 2009 at 3:30 pm
great PR mas fatih..
October 13, 2009 at 11:12 am
senangnya punya PR kaya mas fatih…
October 13, 2009 at 3:46 pm
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
October 16, 2009 at 7:24 pm
Wah hebat