Page Rank drop from 4 to ?
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Our site (ecommerce) has been around since 1998. The pagerank has gone from a 4 to a ?
The Moz score is still good, but traffic is way down. Never got a warning from Google, and were never part of a BH linking scheme? I'm puzzled? There are some duplicate content issues and missing meta tags, but they were on customer login pages that we have since blocked?
Thanks
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The Vegas post was mine, I was logged in on my partner's account.
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Google has said "no manual spam actions found" but we no longer have any page rank and traffic is way off. The site is www.amazingshaving.com. It really began in March of 12.
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Richard - can you provide a little more information about your site? It's going to be impossible to offer any real insight here without some specific details.
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It was a year and a half to 2 years ago. The traffic has really been down 50% or more since then.
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Hmm interesting... from my experience Page Rank can go down if google detects that you are selling links or if you lost some very good and strong backlinks.
Once I had a situation that our client's page rank went instantly down and it came back after two months.
When exactly did it happen?
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Jakub,
Thanks, but not an answer. They are no link exchange or ;ink schemes involved. Just the usual mix of links that our other sites have
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Probably this will answer your question:
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/why-did-my-pagerank-go-down/Jakub.
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