According to Newsday.com, has been hit hard in terms of PageRank, as Google has specified that the website in question has been penalized for selling links that pass PageRank and for violating Newsday.com is 8/10 and not 5/10.
Recently, a Google Groups, to which Google had this to say, "Thanks for your post. I'm glad you're posting here in the Webmaster Help Group, because the discussions here help educate webmasters around the globe. I just checked over Newsday.com that was indexed by Archive.org:
Please remember that participating in link schemes intended to manipulate search engine rankings, including buying or selling links that pass PageRank, is a violation of our Webmaster Guidelines, and may impact your site's standing in Google: http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=35843" Here's what's happening at the Google Groups Thread: "This one has me stumped. Newsday.com is the only site amongst the major Tribune newspaper sites that has a Toolbar PageRank of a 5 versus an 8. I have asked a few Google employees to help me out but they state the standard response of 'ask your question in Google Webmaster Help Group'. So . . . here I am.- Yes, I know TB PR doesn't matter. I've tried to explain this to Newsday but . . . they still want an answer.
- Yes, I tried #1 above several times. But they still want an answer.
- I did a site review and I don't see anything materially different than what is on the other Tribune newspaper sites (certainly nothing that would warrant this much of a delta).
- There are no warnings in G'Webmaster Tools.
- We are pearly white in regards to paid links (we don't need to buy them and we don't sell them).
- The registrar information is slightly different than the other To this, Googler Reid commented: "Hi Brent, Thanks for your post. I'm glad you're posting here in the Webmaster Help Group, because the discussions here help educate webmasters around the globe. I just checked over newsday.com and compared it to the most recent version of newsday.com that was indexed by Archive.org:
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=35843 Best,
Reid"Suggest a Correction
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