As I had mentioned in a post a month and half ago, I had lost my page rank on the homepage of this blog. Though losing PR is not a big disaster, it can have certain impacts on your blogging life. For example, you might have noticed two empty ad slots on the sidebar. Since small time ad networks and advertisers there in are paranoid about the PR factor, I ended up losing some ad income – though very trivial. During the initial stages of this low PR state, there was also a bit of reduction in search traffic as well though not significant.

Well, the good thing is that Google has actually ‘reconsidered’ my blog’s search rankings and they have come up with some ‘help’ based on my Google reconsideration request. The toolbar PR is back now at 3 and more interestingly I have an increased number of indexed pages on Google.
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