oky a bit of a long story..

I have a main site with a forum..

The db for phpbb messed up so ran a backup and updated to the lastest version on phpbb which messed up the session key removal 2 day later google had picked up about 15 session keys.. ahh

The forum is only 2.5k of page and within a week google had indexed 30k of pages.. I was hoping google would sort it out on its own but no a week later and bam 40k of pages ahh

Dup penalities kicked in and the forum h/p got deindex and reindex and deindex then finally aftrer about a month the serps start to recover 2 weeks later and the main site homepage got deindexed.. the forum links to that page so I'm assuming the loss of 40k of backlink rased many flags..

oky so it got reindex and then the serp had almost recovered.. until today when only the web site name work for the home page (all subs are fine)

PLus the dir update i've gone from no 1 for PR out of 100 to the bottom with 0pr i assume that the snap shot was from the deindexed date..

Any advice ? Could this be because of someone else ?

I've found Directory PR to be very quirky and have only occasional correlation with Google search results. I've got one site that is dead last for Directory PR in a 100+ site category but which does very well in the Google SERPs, including a #1 listing for a 30-million+ result keyword.

I used to worry about Directory PR, but no more. Being last probably gets more clicks than being buried somewhere in the long list of sites.

I think I can only set and wait it out..

Its really sad the site was doing so well .. Can't wait for it to recover..

Seems to be a case of to many links to fast and then the link ignored.. This would be in the algo to stop people creating 40k of dup pages just for the links..

Thanks god it not a ban but can't think of anything to help google speed up the process of re-evaluating my site..

I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for the directory listing to recover. The site I mentioned above got bumped from a top directory spot years ago. Fortunately, the directory isn't an important source of traffic. I'd expect your site to eventually recover in the main SERPs once all the dupe issues have been worked out.

Quite amazing to watch this..

Can could really hurt someone's business with this method, serps would be a mess for about 6months..

Only 1/2 the serps are effected and its because of the forum as the effected k/w (at present,homepage only) are the anchor's from the forum to the main homepage (forum = sub domain)..

One thing I can't tell is if the penalties came about via aquiring to many links or lossing them ?

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