May 28, 2008 by Alex Polski

How not to be banned by Google while PageRank checking

Hi friends,

Sorry for the delay with new posts and thanks for your comments and opinions about my tools.

Some people have problems with getting banned by Google while PageRank checking. So I decided to write a separate post about this problem and describe possible solutions.

First of all my tools are developed as single-user tools and don’t support multi-user mode. That’s why don’t run more than one instances of the tool simultaneously.

The second reason of getting banned by Google is possibly a little delay between PageRank checks. You can set bigger delays by inserting a line to the file system/application/helpers/seo_helper.php:

function pagerank($url)
{
  sleep(5);
  $ch = _checksum($url);
  ...

I set a 5 seconds delay in the example above. You can play with your own values of the delay.

Hope this will help you. Cheers!

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This entry was posted on Wednesday, May 28, 2008 at 4:41 pm and is filed under SEO helper, SEO tools. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

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3 Responses to “How not to be banned by Google while PageRank checking”

Tony
Posted on May 31st, 2008 at 2:49 am

Thanks a lot !!

That solved my problem :)

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Posted on February 27th, 2009 at 9:33 pm

Wish I had seen this post before. PR stopped working for me at 1371, Alexa at 1047.

What does -1 and -2 errors mean?

A delay should help. The paid products (besides using proxies) check for a ban every 100 or so by querying the PR of a known site. Might be an easy feature to add.

Alex Polski
Posted on March 2nd, 2009 at 9:54 am

2Buy Essential Oils – Nelson:
-1 means that the script did not get pagerank for the URL (google ban)

-2 means that the URL has not been checked yet

I will add some more features to pagerank scripts soon.