That's for sure! I thought that they were doing everything just right to stay in G's good graces. Site-sift seems to have remained a PR8! Congrats Stuart! Anyone had a chance to see how other directories have done?
Internal pages still show PR....at least for now. Unfortunate if this sticks. UTN evolved past being "just a directory" in my opinion. Seems to be a pattern though with "directories". Buy your way to PR8, sell links = prime target for G.
Wow. That is amazing. I do advertising on there too. Since the internal pages still have PR, I guess I am still good, but I hate to see that happen to them. I don't know if it really has any effect on them since they are not banned, but stressful for sure.
Hmm. I don't know. It has been around for a long time. I guess we'll have to wait and see what happens. I hope for the best.
A year maybe? For at least the first few months it was up it was just a directory - the other features have been added as time passed. Like I said, they did buy their way to PR8 & they sell links. That seems to be a sure fire way to get a good slapping from G.
It seems google does like the directories any more. I remember he set the PR of one specific section dmoz and google-directory to zero. Google has also given many directories PR0. bluefind and UTN are in the set from this update.
Yep that's right. I wondering if the PR0 is anything to do with this article as they had PR8 the last update with no problems: http://www.uncoverthenet.com/blog/ Anyone from the Uncoverthenet camp want to comment on your PR drop? There used to be loads of them on this forum promoting the site...
That scares me, because what if my consumer electronics store www.splaytech.com get really big becomes like a pr8 etc. and then one day just drops and i loose about 80% of my traffic and sales?
But to get a PR8 you need many sites linking to you and perhaps an innovative site - so you don't need worry about that...
The blog is still a 7 The internals are still with PR, as the page I am listed on is. It's too bad the PR is gone, I wonder how recent PR losses of major dirs will effect how the next big dirs are done.