[LINK] RFI: Recovery of Google PageRank

[Roger Clarke]

At 20:49 +1100 8/2/09, Ash Nallawalla wrote:
>What concerns me is that the old URL does not show any Google PageRank.
>IIRC, it used to be about PR6 for the home page. The value itself does not
>mean a lot for ranking purposes but the total absence of it needs to be
>investigated.

Thanks Ash!

http://www.prchecker.info/check_page_rank.php

http://www.anu.edu.au/people/Roger.Clarke/	Not Ranked
http://www.anu.edu.au/people/			4
http://www.anu.edu.au/                          9

There's almost nothing else in people, so the 4 derives from Roger.Clarke.

But Roger.Clarke has been dropped, presumably because the ANU lost my 
site for 6 days - 20-27 Jan.

1.  Are you able to point me to ways in which I can recover my Google rep?

The ANU site is having a Redirect installed at 09:30 this morning:
RedirectPermanent /people/Roger.Clarke http://www.rogerclarke.com

So I guess I have to build a rep for the new domain from scratch?


2.  If anyone has Google ToolBar installed, and can tell me the 
Google PageRank displayed there, I'd appreciate it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PageRank#Google_Toolbar

(Apparently the ToolBar display is lagged, so if there's a reasonable 
score there - and for a one-person site even 4 would do, let alone 6 
- then there's some supporting evidence for my supposition that the 
6-day outage killed my PageRank).


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