Penalty for bad links
Just the other day, my HRdb site dropped several positions on google when searching for its title. The latest update and visit from the googlebot picked up one bad link as revealed in my google webmaster tools. Given that essentially nothing else changed, I have to assume that bad links cause a definite and sustained penalty for a site in pagerank. The page in question was a political article about the banning of ephedra. I had a space before an underscore… We’ll see how long the penalty lasts.
Now that the pagerank experiement has been up and running for a few months, I’ll be redefining the way i keep statistics about record progress. Basically the way i have been doing it is time consuming and has been more or less obsolete by the reports that are generated in google’s Analytics and Webmaster tools.
In the next week i’ll be adding more content to the site and trying to target some of the more popular keywords for the topic. Google is yet to recognise some of the links that have been added from other blogs, but after a quick intermission they are recognising the links from this blog again… More content in the site should draw in more visitors from varying keywords etc…
Comments
BeachBum (Aug 05, 2007)
Thanks for pointing this out. I hardly ever check my stats on Google. It is nice to read real life testing results or in this case situations. First had results stories are always interesting.
Best of luck.
BeachBum