Page Rank is 0
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Hi. Can you please point me in the right direction concerning a site whose default page has a PR of 0? There does not appear to be any errors in the robots.txt file (that I can tell). When I ran a duplicate content check by searching the title tag and first sentance in quotes it did not return more than 2 sites. When I ran a site: it is reporting 287,000 results. Does this mean that they purchased links and have now been penalized? Or where should I go from here? Thank you for any feedback and assistance.
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You're welcome!
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Hi Franck, Thank you for all the tools and methodolgy suggestions!
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ohh this is question is tough and i'm not sure that i have the right answer. But i can suggest a methodology to find the right answer:
- Check the google webmasters tool to see if google has reported you any errors message?
- Use OSE and check links details such as PA, DA, top pages, anchor text, mozrank,...
- Use majestic SEO to check links velocity
- Analyze cached date of some strategic pages on google serps to make sure that google has stored the last version of the page
- Check your analytics tool to see if that page continues to drive visits
Hope this will help
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