December 12th, 2007
Claim Back Your PageRank From Google
If you have noticed, the Google PageRank of this blog has been reduced to zero a few months ago due to the selling of text links. Google discourages the Webmasters to sell text links on web pages as this will affect the organic search environment eventually. A lot of blogs and websites that are constantly selling text links had their PageRank reduced by Google over the past few months.
The only way to have your PageRank restored is to remove all your text links that you have sold (or add nofollow attributes) from your sites and send Google a reinclusion request.
The following is the message that I send to Google:
Hi, my PageRank for the site is reduced by Google due to the selling of text links over the last few months. I realize that this act is violating the Google Webmaster Guidelines and have taken the following actions to remedy the situation:
1. Rectify all paid text links in the sidebar (by adding rel=nofollow).
2. Remove the text link sales section in my advertise page.I hope that Google can restore my PageRank as I believe my site adds value to the Internet users. Look forward to hear from you soon.
2 weeks after the above request was sent, my PageRank was restored 
You can send the reinclusion request through your Google Webmaster Account and click the reinclusion request link in the right of your Dashboard.
For more information on buying and selling of text links, you can refer to the official Google Webmaster blog for more information.
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Comments
WOW!! thanks for the tips…..May be this will help many bloggers who have lost google juice
Sudarshan
December 16th, 2007
You are welcome, Sudarshan
Hope that more people will benefit from this post.
KC
December 17th, 2007
That is really bad move from google. With this business like text-link-ads.com will fail. I use them, have two ads running on my site for month, not found any PR drop yet.
Tom
January 5th, 2008
Hello I’m still little confused about to claim the page rank =S With me there is other factors. Before I had 6 blogs using 1 domain, all my blogs was subdomains xD I did this because I was a little esceptical with the adsense income, but when I saw that my blogs were growing faster, the hosting company blocked my websites, it was a shared hosting, meanwhile I tried to make the change to an dedicated server, I had 10 day offline my blogs, my visits went to half, in that moment I thought it was a good time to change my subdomains to domains, and I did that, my subdomains had page rank from 3 to 4. First I think I made a wrong redirection, I used the 301 just in header.php, then I start reading again about redir, I did it in the .htaccess file and it helped much better, my visits from 1000 was now to 3,000, but I was worried about the pagerank because my domains had 0PR. Then I again read about the redir 301. I read that if my previous domain or subdomain was just http://example.subd.com my domain should be http://mynewdom.com I thought well my mistake was to write the domain http://www.mynewdom.com I made that change, and my visits went down again to 1,000 or less, and my pagerank is still in 0. My God, I’m frustrated, I think I ruin all thinking in the PR, do you have more advices about PR, or advices which could help me with this trouble =( . I’m sad, I thinking in quit from blogs xD really, I’m thinking in star from 0 all, what could you advise me =( Thank you for having an excellent blog =)
Cindy
May 3rd, 2008
Cindy,
First, I would advise you to forget the PageRank thing and concentrate on content. I have a friend of my who do not have PR at all for his blog but he is pulling in very relevant traffic from search engine every month.
Second, you will have a better understanding of how to move a site after reading Google blog post at:
http://tinyurl.com/5s2w3q
Now, getting back to your PR issue.. there is no point chasing for the lost PR.. even if you have PR4 right now, you will not notice much difference in traffic. It is the keywords relevancy that Google allocates to your site that matters.
I believe you have made the right choice by moving to a new domain instead of many sub-domains. This is important for branding purpose as ultimately it is human that read your blog.
Lastly, don’t give up on writing blogs. Maybe focus your energy on one or two blogs initially. Sometimes success is a matter of hanging there while others give up, isn’t it
KC
May 3rd, 2008