Anyone notice links page getting de-ranked?

Discussion in 'Google' started by itliberty, Sep 7, 2008.

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    I have noticed that recently a lot of my sites' links pages have been turned into unranked pages. I mean I know Google isnt a fan of link exchanging etc, but heh. I had a PR3 links page that went to unranked (not 0/10, but unranked).

    It is still indexed, but unranked. So I checked a few other sites and have seen the same thing.

    Anyone else experiencing this? How Am I going to keep all of those exchanges live when it used to be PR3? Hopefully they have lost theirs too I guess :)
     
    itliberty, Sep 7, 2008 IP
  2. tradeya

    tradeya Notable Member

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    are you talking about PR or SERPs?

    if about PR, I guess most of your backlinks got de-valued and that affect your PR.
    About SERPs, google has changed their algorythm recently and it affect the indexed page no. and some PR factor which will affect the SERPs position. and this point i think many people experience the same thing including me.
     
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  3. vansterdam

    vansterdam Notable Member

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    Yep. I just checked mine and they have no PageRank info available. All other pages within my sites do have PR. I guess they want to take away any value in link exchanges. I'd be interested to see if this only affects pages with certain filenames or if they are detecting something on the page that tells them that it is a links page. Mine is called resources.php
     
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    Sphinks Active Member

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    this happened to me too. My site's links page had PR3, and now it is PR0/unranked!
     
    Sphinks, Sep 7, 2008 IP
  5. itliberty

    itliberty Peon

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    It could, simply be the number of outbound links. there are numerous ways to detect this, I am sure they have a fantastic algorithm calculating the worlds perspective...no more link exchanges-->wow.
     
    itliberty, Sep 8, 2008 IP
  6. Lewi

    Lewi Peon

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    Welcome to the Real Estate industry. Google some time ago did this to real estate and it has been speculated that they penalized sites for them. I removed mine and it had no effect, positive or negative on Serps
     
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    Hey sorry for my ignorance but what is a SERP?
     
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    SERP = Search engine reports page, it refers to where a site is placed in
    the search engine for a given search term.
     
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    My links page on one of my sites is still a PR 3.

    Maybe you have too many links on your links page or added too many links too quickly?
     
    snowbird, Sep 9, 2008 IP
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    kk check if your serps are still high, if they are then again you dont have anything to worry about.

    I am surprised you havnt gotten ban*
     
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    I don't think this is the case.

    On one of my sites, my links page has been PR-N/A for a long time (it used to have a PR-1 or 2). None of the 20 outgoing links on that page are exchanged, they are links to sites that I think are good sites that deserve a link. (such as www.bom.gov.au web.archive.org etc) None of them were nofollow, because they are not paid or exchanged links, however I did make them all nofollow after the last PR update, just to see if the page will regain its PR... Time will tell.

    But I also have a Free samples page that has 32 outgoing links on it, that has a PR-1. None were nofollow for the same reason stated above. I have now made them links nofollow to see if the PR will increase at the next toolbar export.

    I think the PR has been stripped automatically for the links page, because if it was done via a human review, then they would have seen that the links are in some way relative to the site and page, and each link has its own explanation about the site it links to.
    The only automatic way I can think they new to strip the PR from that page is that all my internal links to that page have the anchor text "links" (dead giveaway:rolleyes:)

    The free samples page has more outgoing links and less text on the page, but retained its PR.
    The links page has a link to it from every internal page in the site, the free samples page has a link to it from about 25% of internal pages in the site. :confused:

    Cheers
    James
     
    tattoos, Sep 9, 2008 IP