SSS PageRank Now 0?
I just noticed that the PageRank (via the Google toolbar) for Software for Starving Students project sank clear back to 0 after a brief stint at 5. The crummy thing is, I can’t figure out why. Although the site has very infrequent updates, it is constantly getting new inbound links. Our traffic has decreased during the slow season of our release cycle, but PageRank is independent of traffic. The only suspicion that I have is that many sites (including Apple) use the exact text from our website without linking back. Now, I’m not too upset about being blatantly plagiarized (in fact, I took special care when writing the text knowing that it would likely be used and reused across the internet), but I think Google may be dinging us for having what is now “repeat” information.
Does anyone have any experience with this happening to your site? Are there any other ideas as to what might cause this phenomenon? I love Google, but I hate getting dumped without knowing why. Ideas?
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Tags: Copywriting, Duplicate Content, PageRank, Plagiarism, SEO, Software for Starving Students, SSS, Technology
March 5th, 2006 at 11:37 pm
wait for it… Sometimes PageRank does it’s pagerank thing for a day or two. That’s happened to me and resolved itself within a day.
March 6th, 2006 at 2:08 pm
Sure enough, it’s back up today. Weird.