Comments on: Page Rank Update – How were you affected?

By: Hugo Santos

Hugo Santos — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 14:50:50 +0000

thanks. those robots.txt examples will help me

By: Sid Software

Sid Software — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 09:31:54 +0000

I empathize with your problem. Hope that never happens to me.

Just for interest sake this is what my robots.txt looks like.

User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /wp-includes/
Disallow: */trackback/
Disallow: */feed/
Disallow: /trackback/
Disallow: */trackback/
Disallow: /comments/
Disallow: /rss/
Disallow: /tag/

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By: pizza oven

pizza oven — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 23:07:16 +0000

What I changed on my robots.txt file?

To clear all unneeded I added to robots.txt this (to what I already had disabled like; pages, feeds, trackbacks, categories, tags, etc.):

Disallow: /articles/*? Disallow: /articles/*.php$ Disallow: /articles/*.js$ Disallow: /articles/*.inc$ Disallow: /articles/*.css$

I tested ‘/articles’ and ‘/articles/’ my blog URLs against this file using Google Webmasters Tools and it went through fine. But of course I forgot to test this one: /articles/index.php !!!

So with the ‘/articles/*.php$’ I disabled my main blog page. Otherwise it would be good mainly for individual posts. Such a silly mistake but never mind it’ll be fixed. (So, don’t disallow *.php$ as I did.)

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By: Sid Software

Sid Software — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 20:24:08 +0000

Ye, I have a blog that dropped from a 2 to a 1.
Then I also have a normal site that stayed a 3.
With the blog getting all the pages in the primary index, is more important to me than pumping up the home page.

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By: Hugo Santos

Hugo Santos — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 15:25:15 +0000

Congratulations on your PR

despite the drop i still got a PR, and that is better than nothing. I admit that having a PR3 these months was very profitable.

By: Hugo Santos

Hugo Santos — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 18:29:05 +0000

when i got this domain i got a PR 3 1 month after. What changes have you done on your robot.txt?

By: Hugo Santos

Hugo Santos — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 18:23:39 +0000

if you are talking about the site you provided on form, then you have a pr 3 which is pretty good. Try to get more links from related sites with PR.

By: pizza oven

pizza oven — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 05:25:34 +0000

Hi Hugo,

my Page Rank sits on #4 for a year or so but I have noticed clear up and down changes deeper on pages. I have to improve a few things regarding PR rise that I learned about today. On my blog, which isn’t too old, the main home page wasn’t touched at all only posts got PR’s I think it could be for I made changes on robots.txt last week. *** Next update you might get better Page Rank than you had before!

By: buy fioricet

buy fioricet — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 03:52:03 +0000

mine doesn’t increase…i don’t know why?

By: Michael Aulia

Michael Aulia — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 03:06:41 +0000

Mine goes up from PR1 to PR4, but as to how it affects anything, I don’t know yet.

Hopefully it will affect my search engines traffic, but some people say it may or it may not

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