No deep PR on many of the big directories

Hi, I`ve gone through several of the biggest directories and it strikes me that none of them (except dmoz and yahoo) have PR on pages deeper than 1 level. These pages have been there for ages so I`m not sure if a listing within their categories will help at all if no PR has propagated down there. Does anyone have any real experience in seeing the result of having a link in one of these directories?

Let`s take http://botw.org/top/Business/Investing/Chats_and_Forums/ for instance; Investing has PR5 so most likely that page should have had PR 4 for ages, why isn`t that so?

Thanks!

 

here is my question: Why do you care about PR anyways?

 

Hi, because it gives the on page elements (like title and keywords) more weight in the rankings....

 

Are you talking about inner page PR?
i believe Sitelinks is more important than inner page PR for web directories.
anyway PR is outdated, do you remember when Google update the PR last time?

 

check www.mastbusiness.com . many inner pages have pr4, pr3 and pr2. If a directory is properly optimized pr does appear on inner pages.

 

Hi, I think they are doing something good by trying to make the directory look like a resource page, but still I couldn`t see that they had inner pages lower than 1 level that had PR. Like mastbusiness.com/top/Financial_Services/Investment_Services/Currency_Trading_Brokers/ , maybe you could point me to an example?

Thanks!

 

Hi, yes I`m talking about inner page PR (PR on the page with the actual outbound links).
I believe Sitelinks are the shortcuts in the search result and has nothing to do with google ranking.
Google updates it`s PR quite frequently but only publishes (in your google toolbar) a delayed snapshot from time to time. PR is not outdated, it`s only because of the now very large SEO business that spews out noise so the average webmaster looses track of what is important.

 

January 2011 according to this post.

 

check www.mastbusiness.com . many inner pages have pr4, pr3 and pr2. If a directory is properly optimized pr does appear on inner pages.

 

How would you properly optimize a Directory for PR?

 

Google does not like competition. They manually edit PR on directories. They manually penalize directories. They just do not seem to like directories in general for some reason.. Ah, that competition thing.

Strangely enough Google is not the only SE out there. And no other SE seems to penalize web sites based on their similarities in delivering unique, well organized content.

 

I have the same thoughts. Now imagine you had an online business or businesses. Your fate rests entirely on google.. if they decide they don't like you then that's the end. Pity there is not much competition for google..

 

Again, google is not the only SE out there. So I'd say a portion of that fate may rely on them, but certainly not all.

 

cmon dude, who are you kidding. is there another beast that has been sleeping all this time?

 

BING, YAHOO... ASK even.. I get the majority of my sales and traffic from BING fyi... Its an incredibly underestimated resource.

 

I have the same thoughts. Now imagine you had an online business or businesses. Your fate rests entirely on google.. if they decide they don't like you then that's the end. Pity there is not much competition for google..

 

Er, Google is not the only SE. The majority of my traffic and income comes from BING and ASK. I think people should stop putting so much weight into Google. If you concentrate all your SEO on trying to make google happy, and then something breaks, I you're SOL. The better approach is to concentrate on being SE friendly to all SE's.

 

i think the correct approach is to focus on what is working best for your business. if bing is bringing you the most traffic/sales then you would be foolish to ignore it, but you would be a minority.

 

I think a better way of putting it is there is no deep PR on many "websites". This forum would be such an example.

 

Are you aware of their market share of the SE business? They are negligent to be harshly honest -- or pls ask yourself if you could continue your online business ignoring Google by 100% ! I really doubt it --- and u r saying this just coz I reckon you no longer can manipulate PR as before!!!!!!!!!!!

Come on man --- show your stats rather than misguiding newbies!

True the value of PR has subsided but many people including many world renowned SEO companies still value Tool Bar PR along with the age of the page they want links from!

Cheers
John