I noticed last week that my Google pagerank had dropped from four to zero. I assumed it was something to do with shifting my blog from the domain root to a directory.
That’s probably the case, because the Google webmaster guidelines state: “Don’t create multiple pages, subdomains, or domains with substantially duplicate content.”
I suppose while the robots were crawling the new blog they still had records of the old one and a computer determined it was a duplication.
Google is still indexing my site. I have submitted a request to have the zero ranking reconsidered.
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What happens is that when you move it, it in a sense is a ‘new’ website/ url and so until google crawls it again it will stay at 0, heck you may not even get the 4 back…
sucks does it not?
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I’ve got PageRank back on the main index page, so Google must have accepted my request to review the decision.