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Now Public Stripped of Google Page Rank by panzerlawyer | September 30, 2008 at 03:26 am | 107 views | 7 comments

As many of you may know, Google uses a Page Rank (PR) system to determine the authority of a particular web site. The latest PR updates took place this weekend. I just looked at my PR toolbar and noticed that Now Public was stripped. Does anyone know why? Was NP selling links?

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Paschen

at 03:36 on September 30th, 2008 new

good stuff:

You may want to post this in the Forum. Since it is about NP and on NP. It there for according to the NP guide lines, belong into the forum and I am sure the Editor will anther all your questions there.

jayr_patron

at 03:40 on September 30th, 2008 new

It's mostly likely that Google has re-indexed its pages. NowPublic.com is still in the directory, so it may just need to be re-crawled.

panzerlawyer

at 03:41 on September 30th, 2008 new

Sorry. How do I do that? I thought this was breaking news and not a forum type question.

Paschen

at 04:53 on September 30th, 2008 new

Just ask an Editor to help you if you have problem, best done with PM.

Vinny

at 08:32 on September 30th, 2008 new

I think it might be to do with a change in the url, it is now my.nowpublic.com instead of nowpublic.com. I noticed a similar loss of page rank on my own site when I changed the url in th past. Yesterday I noticed a major drop in the number of hits on many NP posts, some not even getting 10 in 8 hours! and wonder if this is connected.

nagba

at 08:40 on September 30th, 2008 new

my.nowpublic.com is being served only for loggedin users. Anonmymous users and therefor the google bot as well will keep using www.nowpublic.com, so this reason is unlikely. We are going to investigate the loss of PR though.

Vinny

at 08:53 on September 30th, 2008 new

Thanks for the explanation nagba, you may want to check the major drop in hits yesterday on many posts unless it was just a problem with the hit counters.