Yesterday when I was checking a directory of mine and reviewing a submission that I received, it was a PR4. Today I received another submission and went to the directory to review it but I was shocked when I noticed that the PR has dropped from PR4 to PR2! There was no indication of this was going to happen and I certainly do not sell sitewide links on the directory. Can someone tell me what is going on?
It’s not an unusual for this to happen to newer directories that have a very little content or unedited content of poor quality. Does your directory fall into this area?
Page rank does not make or break a directory; it only affects link farms and link sales. A quality directory can operate with no page ranking and still make a profit. All you need is traffic, and moderate popularity.
Once Google has manually adjusted your PR it'll be hard if not impossible to get it back. Don't hold out any hopes. Focus on directory quality, not PR.
I somehow have doubts that this is a directory penalty because if it is, won't it have dropped to PR0? My directory has been around for a year and recently I hired an editor to add quality content to it. It has decent traffic and good ranking in the SERPs, I won't let this "demotion" destroy my directory in any way as I have worked hard on it.
You don't have to sell sitewide links. Bidding directory runs on the mechanism of a simple principle: the more you pay (or bid), the higher your position will be and the higher your position will be, the better your chances will be to be appearing in a page with pr (for example a category's page 1 out of 5). So indirectly and directly you are selling page rank and thats what Google hates. Whatever people say, we all know in our heart that PageRank is One of the most important element (if not the most important element) in google serp computation. Pagerank is not only used for serp computations either, it also determines the VALUE of a website in Google's eyes and overall Google's eyes are really very very honest. Ethically, bid directories are really in a wrong place at the wrong time. What Google advises you to do is simple: don't bid for a dofollow position, earn it! A site's position in terms of Ranking on any engines or directories SHOULD be based on the site's quality only and not on how rich the webmaster of a site is. And thats what bidding directories are NOT doing, they are simply awarding a higher position because someone else's bid was higher even though as an internet resource, the site might actually suck. Of course, I'm just talking the Google side of the story and I have nothing against bid directories or their owners. They are just trying to do some business! If you don't care about Pagerank then you'll be fine, simply build inbound links and you'll still rank well in google. Cheers bro!
I noticed a few of my directories that have gone from 0 to 3 in the last 10 days. As a result, I updated the PR on my list of 11,000 directories. I noticed that there have been some that have gone up and some that have gone down since the last full update. It sure looks like manual adjustments.
Agreed... and good points You can take a look at uncoverthenet and they aren't even indexed yet they still manage to get traffic to their site and dont seem to need google to help them. You could also look at hotvsnot that was de-indexed a few months back and now has a PR plus 50,000 indexed pages. @maxxcwl Just do what you do best and dont sweat the small chit laterz malcolm
Same here adda4u Yesterday one of my directory's PR gone to 0 from PR3 and today after seeing your post i check it again. It has PR3 now DON.
Now I am going to report something weird. As I have said yesterday, one of my directories dropped from PR4 to PR2 under mysterious circumstances. Today, I checked again and the directory is now back to PR4 as if the drop never happened. This is very strange!
Perhaps a Google employee went and lowered a few, then another came on today and reversed them. Weird.