{"id":2644,"date":"2007-10-31T20:50:01","date_gmt":"2007-10-31T15:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2007\/10\/google-pagerank-crash-file-webmaster-reconsideration-request\/"},"modified":"2020-05-24T09:58:58","modified_gmt":"2020-05-24T04:28:58","slug":"google-pagerank-crash-file-webmaster-reconsideration-request","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2007\/10\/google-pagerank-crash-file-webmaster-reconsideration-request\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Pagerank Crash? File Webmaster Reconsideration Request"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2007\/10\/paid-text-links-cause-of-huge-google-pagerank-penalties\/\">Google penalizes sites for selling text links<\/a> and huge pagerank drops are being reported widely on top sites (we also dropped from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2007\/10\/google-pagerank-drops-pr6-to-pr3\/\">PR6 to PR3<\/a>, with no paid text links!), you can file a <strong>Reconsideration Request to Google<\/strong> if you believe you do not sell text links and your site is compatible with Google webmaster guidelines.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/webmasters\/tools\/siteoverview?hl=en\" rel=\"noopener\">Google Webmaster tools<\/a> is an excellent official resource for webmaster interaction with Google.  If you have never signed up there, you must verify your site. Therein is a form to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/webmasters\/tools\/reconsideration?hl=en\" rel=\"noopener\">submit a reconsideration request<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Request reconsideration of a site <em>only when it has violated the webmaster guidelines<\/em>, since by submitting this form, you acknowledge that your site violated <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/support\/webmasters\/bin\/answer.py?answer=35769&amp;hl=en\" target=\"google_popup\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google quality guidelines<\/a> in the past, and now you have fixed the issue and it no longer violates Google&#8217;s quality guidelines. Then have some patience and wait several weeks for the re-evaluation process.  Also note that they will not reply individually to reconsideration requests.<\/p>\n<p>If you pagerank has dropped by mistake, this seems to be the only official way to contact Google. Try it &#8230; it might work!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Google penalizes sites for selling text links and huge pagerank drops are being reported widely on top sites (we&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","category-google","category-search-engine-optimization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}