A question about some famous directories

For eg, www.romow.com is very nice and famous directory.

The domain name is quite old and has lots of backlinks however it has almost PR 0. Why?

 

Because power is in back links and traffic, not PR

 

Very nice looking site.
It seems to be well indexed.
I think we might need a little more history on this site to make a judgement.

Looking at the wayback history
http://web.archive.org/web/*/www.romow.com
it appears to have been a parked domain type page.
That may be the problem with the pagerank, which hopefully will improve now that the site is being maintained.

 

dvduval, http://web.archive.org is a really powerful tool. I have bookmarked it..thanks!

 

I just checked one captured domain of mine http://www.thenextlink.com can be backed to 1998! Wow!

Btw, does google dislike expired domain?

 

Nice skin, would you like to tell me where you had bought that skin,thanks

 

Romow was PR6 in the past and i believe it's still PR6, on the next PR update it'll be fine

 

Who said it was famous? First I've heard of it.

Gotta say, good looking design there.

 

Actually some DCs are showing PR2 for this directory http://livepr.ezer.com/?livePR=www.romow.com
The owner of Romow is working hard on backlinks etc It's a strong directory.I am sure it will achieve some good PR in next update
Saad

 

its promoted well, should gain pr back, no clue why it shows me pr2, i though it would be high.

 

Agreed!
I'm happy to see that my site is already listed there

 

This site promoted well and this pr update i think will have high pr.

 

how can you said that romow was PR6 in the past??
any proof where we can check........

 

As far as I rememeber the page structure was rebuild and so it lost the PR for inner pages.

I think I remember reading this somewhere, not 100% sure it was about Romow.

Great directory in any case.

 

Yeah just a funky PR update, I think it's probably a 6 and the owner has been buying up links.

And for those saying "PR isn't everything" or "PR isn't important" you're absolutely wrong when it comes to directories. If you had inner PR8 pages or showed up #1 for "web directory" whom do you think would get more submissions?

 

The domain was just parked and only converted to a directory after the last PR update.

The directory is being aggressively built up and promoted by someone with a lot of experience running directories, so I think you'd do well by submitting there.

It already has a page strength of 4.5 and once PR updates, I'm sure the pagestrength will jump to 6. I'd get in before the prices go up!

 

thanks everyone for the nice words.
As Jeff said, the romow domain has been around for long time, but it's only about three months since it's loaded with a directory.
As far as I remember, the domain was only PR2 in the past.
The directory skin was done by shabu. Nice job he has done!

 

yeah romow is a nice looking site........

 

There was 2 directories PR6 that got reset by google, one is ROMOW and the other is Linkwith.us

If you don't know it was PR6 then for you romow is a PR0

 

Why google reset PR for these 2 directories? Penalty or award?