Why Does my Blog’s Page Rank Drop to Zero?
So, your blog’s PR (Page Rank or PageRank) drops to zero (0).
For the sake of those who are not yet familiar with the term “Page Rank“… this term actually may mean two things:
- The website rating system, and/or the rating given to every website or webpage which is named after the Google co-founder, Mr. Page. And it’s the one that I am actually talking here.
- The actual ranking of a certain web page in the SERP of a specific search.
Okay. If during the recent PR update of Google, your blog was slapped by Google with the PR0 from its former higher PR rating, should you really worry about it?
Actually, there’s nothing to worry about it. A Page Rank of zero (0) may mean that your link-building campaign is a failure, but it doesn’t mean that you’ll lose all the higher positions at SERP in a specific search.
To let you know, there are lots of blogs which got the zero PR but still getting huge traffic from Google. Brother Macuha’s blog is now PR0 but his blog’s traffic remains high compared to mine. The PR of my blog, make money at home, dropped to zero last April 2009 but it is still getting enough traffic from Google.
So instead of worrying and making your self nervous, what you need to do is just follow the advice of Google’s engineer, Mr. Matt Cutts, to focus on writing quality articles rather than being obsessed with the green bar that you’ll see at the Google Toolbar.
I already wrote blogposts about it. Few of them are:
Review my article, “Make Your Link-Building Campaign Natural” and learn things about better link building. If you haven’t watched the presentation of Matt Cutts during the Wordcamp 09 in US, then better watch it now here.
Then you’ll still ask me, why does my blog’s PR drop to zero?
Actually, the answer to the question is found already in the articles or blogposts I already mentioned above. Like:
- Google’s Penalty. Google, through Mr. Matt Cutts, warned us already that our blog will be penalized if we are caught selling links just for the sake of PR points. It doesn’t mean that you are not allowed to sell your blog’s links but if you want to stay at the safe side you need to use the “nofollow” tags on the links. And one of the penalty that our blog will get is the drop of PR, deindexed from the search engine or be banned from the search engine.
- Bad Link Building Campaign. Links coming from the fake network of blogs couldn’t be utilized already. Google penalizes blogs and websites detected as members of the fake blog network by devalueing or setting its linking juice to zero.
In other words, if youre blog was enjoying the link juices of those blogs in the fake network of blogs before, then soon as Google found out the real nature of these blogs, your blog will immediately lose some PR points that causes the drop of your blog’s PR from a higher rating to zero.
That’s the reason why you need to avoid farming links by creating fake blogs. Exchanging links should also be done in moderation because over doing it might cause a penalty. - Got the temporary backlinks. There are bloggers who are previously linking to your blog from their own blogs. But time came that they stripped off that link. Others simply added the “nofollow” tag on their links back to your blog. Thus losing link juices that your blog previously enjoying.
And just like what I said above, as long as your blog is still indexed by Google, then you still have the chance to increase your blogs PR rating.
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how do google rank that page ranks sel?
Each website has its own total Page Rank got through the internal and external linking process. But it’s not yet the Page Rank you’ll see in the toolbar.
In assigning “Toolbar Page Rank” to a website, Google first get the total number of websites being indexed including the Page Rank of each of the website. Then Google divide them into 10 ranges of Page Ranks based on the data they got from the websites that have been indexed.
For example: If a certain website, let’s call it Website A, got a total Page Rank of 0.45 and then the first range of Page Rank or the Toolbar Page Rank of 1 is from 0.1 to 100 Page Rank, then Website A got the “Toolbar Page Rank” of 1.
Penalized pa rin ang site ko. So nagiging useless ang pagiging PR2 ko, waah..
I don’t think your arkhilario.com is penalized. if you’ll google “Ark Hilario” your blog is still on the page 1.
Usually penalized website is not included on the SERP or is being deindexed.
Why can’t google.com be ranked as 10 in page rank? Just a thought?
It’s because they don’t want it to happen
does it mean you site will not be ranked again?because it drops to zero?
just like what I said on the above article, if the Page Rank (in Toolbar) dropped to zero, it doesn’t mean that it’s already the end of the world.
As long as your blog is still indexed by Google, your blog still have the chance to get higher Toolbar PageRank again.
Just fix the problems or the causes why your blog gets the PR0. Then after that, just wait for the right time…. for the time that Google will update its Toolbar PageRank and see for the improvements.
If you think there is no improvement yet after fixing the problems…continue getting more relevant and high authority backlinks… these will help a lot.
Review my article, “Make your backlinks Natural“.
Bakit kay 0 pa rin ang page rank ko hanggang ngayon?
you need to add more pages in your blog and at the same time more backlinks.
ah… di ko na muna iintindihin yan mga page rank… focus muna me sa paguupdate ng blog ko
dami ko pala matututo dito sa site mo 
salamat sa pagbisita. Pero ok mas mabuti pa yung blog mo Page Rank 1 na, pero itong blog na ito Page Rank 0 uli.
this is a very helpful article especially for neophytes like me. i still have a LOT of learning to do, it’s useful articles like these that makes it more easier. thanks!
nagupdate po pala ung PR? haha XD di ko napansin, wala parin naman nagbago sa PR ng blogs ko. ><
Waw, thanks for the info. I did not notice that Google updated the PageRanks.
Hi Sel, you had a pretty good explanation about page rank here, thanks!
btw, is it true that only in every 3 months that Google updates the pageranking(PR)?
hi thanks for dropping by.
according to those who are observing the Toolbar PR, the PR updates every 3 months. But Matt Cutts said that Google is always (every seconds, minutes or hours) updating the PR rating of every website and pages.
Nakakainins Sir Sel.
I wonder why my blog, Bunsoi Magazine was slapped by Google with a PR that is not 2, not 1, and worst, not zero. But a PR of N/A.
I tried to google why and found out that there are several blogs considered N/A and those blogs are actually thrown into Google so-called supplemental index, but I honestly, don’t really get the point.
Sir Sel, a little help?
Thanks!
I think, you need to get more relevant backlinks.
thanks for this info. but how would you consider the links from social bookmarking sites
I think I already had answered it at my latest article, How To Let Google Visit your Blog Often?“
Sir, what do you think the reason why I’m getting again PR0 for the last two weeks. Months ago, my blog was rated PR0- but after 1 week it was rated back again as PR2. I realized it was just a flaw of the tool I am using. I am still using mypagerank.net/seomonitor in monitoring my stats. On the past 2 weeks, seomonitor says that my blog is again PR0. Is it possible that this is again another flaw? Even Google’s PR Toolbar is showing my blog as PR0, but I am still getting a good position in the SERPs…
I think, there links that are previous considered by Google as valid but later on those links were dropped, thus you lost some backlinks which resulted to PR0. But just like what I said on the article above, PR0 rating of your blog doesn’t always mean that you also lose the ranking in the SERP.
totoo po ba yung balita na may result n daw po ng Let october4, 2009? Sabi po nasa manilabulletin n daw po totoo po ba?
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