Reinclusion for Lost PageRank?
That’s what’s being asked at the cre8asite forums. You can find the entire post here Should I Submit for Google Reinclusion? or check out the question here:
One of my sites lost its pagerank (most likely because I was selling text links on the site).
I have redone many things on the website and don’t sell text links anymore. should I submit for Google reconsideration?
I know Pagerank doesn’t matter in ranking but advertisers still like it and that is my major income from the site
So is it smart to submit a request for Google to reconsider the pagerank penalty (if any)? My answer has to be an emphatic NO! The reinclusion option is very specific, if you have been removed from the SERPs or are sufferring poor rankings in the SERPs you may request for a reconsideration.
Doesn’t seem all bad right? WRONG! If you were once buying links to pass link juice chances are you were or are doing some other activity that violates Google’s webmaster guidelines. Do you really want a quality control staff member manually review your website and it’s incoming links? Talk about a potential pandora’s box.
I say chalk it up to a learning experience, realize that while PageRank is still an important factor it isn’t nearly as important as on-page optimization and trustrank.