Not ranking well after site was hacked
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My site was hacked and that seemed to have a pretty big effect on search rankings. I'm pretty sure I've gotten the hack completely removed (as of 10/16.)
During the hack and even now, all of my posts created after Aug 1 don't rank in regular Google searches at all even if I search for the titles in quotes. But I can tell they are indexed because I see them when I do a site search in Google. And I see that they are cached. Posts from before Aug 1 rank well in Google searches.
The issue with August and after posts no longer appearing started in mid September. Prior to that the some of the August posts were actually performing very well. The September date corresponds to when we first started working on removing the hack.
It looks like the August and after posts all have a pagerank of 0, whereas the mozrank is much higher. I've request reconsideration from Google and was told that no manual action was taken against my site.
I know that's a lot of background, but I'm wondering how long do I need to wait before the August and after posts start ranking? Is there anything I can do in the mean time to address this pagerank issue?
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Would the "no snippet" tag help with the PR 0 issue?
Here's some more info. We still have some pages that rank for the spam keywords - they have yet to be re-indexed. However many of the pages that have PR0 don't actually rank for the spam keywords, these pages are clean and have been re-indexed. Lastly, the hackers had hacked a network of sites and created thousands of cross-links. In our case, they were linking to "pages" that didn't really exist on our site - but they were spoofing the bots. When we removed the hack, I ended up with 4,500+ 404's because of links from other hacked sites to pages that didn't actually exist on mine.
I'm happy to provide specific examples if that helps. Thanks!
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Hi, since your pages are indexed by Google you say I can only think of the rel="nosnippet" tag. Canonical could pass on the juice but PR 0 sounds strange.
- NOINDEX tag tells Google not to index a specific page* NOFOLLOW tag tells Google not to follow the links on a specific page* NOARCHIVE tag tells Google not to store a cached copy of your page* NOSNIPPET tag tells Google not to show a snippet (description) under your Google listing, it will also not show a cached link in the search results
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