The Forum is Losing its Page Rank

Discussion in 'Support & Feedback' started by gopalkr, Aug 31, 2009.

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    This forum is losing its page rank. Back in the past, it had a PR of 6. Now it shows up as only PR 4.
    When it had PR6, I didn't spend much time here. Later when I learned that, I realized that it is the only online forum with such a high page rank. The second seems to be the sitepoint forum with PR of 5.

    Now DP forums lost its PR by 2. Is it because of the decreased activity on the site due to stringent rules? I cannot think of any other reason. It must have lost a good deal of backlinks or backlinking sites must have lost their PR.
     
    gopalkr, Aug 31, 2009 IP
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    jhmattern Illustrious Member

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    1. Old news.
    2. It's neither a suggestion nor feedback, so really doesn't belong in this section.
    3. Pagerank isn't determined by forum rules. It's determined by links, as Google chooses to count them (which periodically changes).
     
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  3. digitalpoint

    digitalpoint Overlord of no one Staff

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    Wow... you really can't think of *any* other reason why PageRank would have changed other than a change to a site's rules? lol

    Here's some clues for you...

    • Rules do not generate PageRank
    • Activity is up (not down) since rules changed
    • PageRank is a measure of back links, not rules nor traffic. If this is news to you, here's some reading you probably should do: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PageRank

    Also, at some point this forum was PR8, although the traffic was far less than it was now. At this rate, I can only hope we get PR0 as our traffic should increase 10x.
     
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  4. deluxdon

    deluxdon Catch Me If You Can...!!!™ Staff

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    DP care about traffic not PR as not selling links. Who told you that changing in rules affect PR ??

    DON.
     
    deluxdon, Aug 31, 2009 IP
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