Matt Cutts, Why Am I Still Being Punished?
January 24, 2008 by DazzlinDonna · 123 Comments
I dumped text link ads. I nofollowed paid links. I javascripted links that might be mistaken for paid links. I canceled my sponsored review accounts. I switched to a different method of monetization (Scratchback) that serves Google-friendly, nofollowed links. (And btw, Google, that put a huge dent in my revenue, just so you know). Finally, after I cleaned up everything that might possibly make you hate me, I filed a reconsideration request about 5 weeks ago.
Toolbar PR updated – Backlinks too
April 4, 2006 by DazzlinDonna · 1 Comment
The almost-never-ending PR update has finally completed. Toolbar now showing new PR. And backlinks have updated as well.
PR = Deep Crawl
March 2, 2006 by DazzlinDonna · 2 Comments
During the Meet The Crawlers session at SES, someone asked why all of their pages weren’t indexed. Google’s answer: Every search engine crawls in a different way. Mentions vs indexed. There are instances where we know about the url, but we did not crawl it. Your site may not have enough PageRank for us to do a deep crawl.
If you care, PR is updating on some datacenters
February 18, 2006 by DazzlinDonna · 1 Comment
This does seem to be a true update (as opposed to a rollback), as new sites with no previous PR is obtaining PR on the following datacenters. A quick and easy way to check is to use this tool.
