Double content penalty, what can I do?

[Jeka]

A few months ago I put up a index.html file linking to 50 of my domains, and I was that dumb to put that file up on all 50 of them.
I didn't use them so I thought they wouldn't get spyderd anyway but I was wrong, I had a PR 5 domain in there and now all domains are PR 0.

Can it be that my whole server IP got banned / penaltized?
A few days ago I moved a PR 4 domain to my server and now 2 days later after the DNS change it's PR 3. Is that because of the double content penalty or the google dance right now?

I would really appreciate some help, thanks.

[Bill]

It's not possible to tell with the info you provided. But I tend to doubt that you would be zeroed out just for duping a page on a bunch of domains.

My first guess is that your server was down when googlebot went thru.

I hear lot's of 4s turned to 3s. I have a batch myself, mostly inner pages without a lot of link support. I guess this is one of google's "devalueing" updates.

[Leon]

were index.html is the only duplicate thing on all this 50 sites ?

if you promote same sponsors in same way from all 50 sites and you used same texts you can get penalized by google but i think Bill is right PR wouldnt change so quick just because you moved to another server

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[Jeka]

I changed the index files on all domains a few weeks ago and now all my domains are indexed again |bananna|

[DangerDave]

Then as Bill said... it is likey your server was unreachable... and it was in no way a penalty..

Penalties don't come and go.. :)

DD

[Jeka]

Hm maybe but my server hasn't been down yet I think.

[DangerDave]

Your server does not have to be down... it just has to be "unreachable" by the google spider.. That can happen for many reasons..

DD

[Linkster]

Remember also that "External PR" which is what Google now calls the PR you see on the toolbar - is completely different than the PR that really exists for the pages - unfortunately so many people were using the toolbar to base trades and linking campaigns that Google has made it totally useless :)

[DangerDave]

Originally posted by Linkster
unfortunately so many people were using the toolbar to base trades and linking campaigns

... but it's fun to watch them try :D

DD