A.P.P.L.E

If you have some PageRank checker embedded in your Internet browser, you should have realized that A.P.P.L.E has gained back its Google PageRank, or PR in short!!! Wohooooo~ It’s the greatest thing that happen to my blog this year! My blog had been suffering from PR penalty since the first Google PR update early this year which is around January. I lost my PR after I started doing paid post from advertisers like Smorty and Blogvertise.

Some of you still may not know what is this PageRank about. You can read it here.  In simple words, it’s an art of building back links to your blog / website. It’s a ranking system or judgment from the big G about the importance of your page. When the big G dislike you, penalty will be given. The big G seems to monopolize the Internet market, so they dislike those who do paid post or involve in selling links.

Since my blog get penalized by Google and suffered a PR 0 for nearly 8 months, the previously mentioned advertisers ASSIGNED ME TASKS NO MORE. I served their ads and get paid, yet when I lost my PR, they “dumped” me (my blog). I strongly believe this blog has its quality by looking at the responses from my dear readers, yes, you. (thank you) It’s not because my blog is full of crap just that Google didn’t like those sponsored contents.

I’ve been thinking of fighting and grab back this blog’s PR. And finally on the 14th November, it got its ranking back to 3! Thanks G! Got your PR penalized? Wanna fix this prob? Continue to read how to overcome this issue.

A.P.P.L.E got back to the PR racing track. It’s not a miracle nor magic. It happened for a REASON - I submitted a reconsideration request to Google via the Google Webmaster Tools.

Login to Google Webmaster Tools (activate this service with your Google account if you haven’t). If you haven’t own a Google account, get one already, as it’s kinda important and useful for bloggers. Once you are in, go to the Dashboard and type in your blog’s URL and on the “Add Site” button. You need to “register” your blog in the webmaster tools system.

Follow all the instructions, fill in all the neccessary information. Once you are done, go back to the Dashboard and on the right sidebar, click on “Request reconsideration“.

It’s pretty straight forward if you follow the instruction closely. Now, you gotta choose which site you want to request for reconsideration.

Requesting reconsideration of: (this is a drop down menu, choose the site that you have added earlier)

Agree (tick the checkbox) with the Reconsideration statement.

The finally step is to tell Google what happen to your PageRank - what actions might have led to any penalties, and what corrective actions have been taken.

(I wrote something like I suspect my PR was penalized because of doing paid posts from X and Y companies and I have removed all posts assigned by them. And hope that they will give my blog a chance for reconsideration)

Lastly, click on the Request Reconsideration button and wait for approval. PageRank will be updated once the requested reconsideration is approved.

Viola~

Tags: pagerank

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