I see so many threads here --- This directory is authority and this directory is authority but non of these directories are over PR3 and dirs like Aviva are PR0. How can these be authoriy Directories?
Being an authority site it doesn't mean that you should have a high PR. I've seen lots of quality websites (some of there authorities in their niches) without high PR. I could never understand why someone would connect one website PR with its authority status. Now someone tell me if Aviva is not a quality directory (and deserve the extra links) regardless of their PR.
They are authority for their site names, should be the case for more sites if their names are not competitive keywords. I believe more and more sites will have this status. It is harder to get this also if google thinks your name is a misspelling like it is the case for my 2 directories. You will need more presence so that google removes the "did you mean: .." When you search for "enQuira", most of the results in the first 5 pages are from enquira.com though google did not give it this status because it thinks it is a misspelling. Also when you have subdomains they tend to rank high for the site name and prevent other internal pages to show as sitelinks (google still treats subdomains as separate in some cases). Good read: http://www.soloseo.com/blog/2006/12/19/get-your-web-2-0-brand-past-did-you-mean-in-search/ When google removed the "did you mean..." sitelinks started to show.
Well... ...according to this ...and this... ... I can only think that you believe the higher PR have the more authoritative the site is...which I obviously have to disagree... Thank you
really but no one care what you think makes a site authority. When people here are talking about authority they are saying Google gave them the status. Apparently as long as i have been in the industry showing extra links below the actual listing in google... is called an authority site. Now subjectively you can have multiple arguements, and as far as i can understand your measure of authority relates directly to pagerank which is typical.
Why does PR come into it? Aviva is probably PR7. They just manipulate the toolbar to show otherwise. For example ewebpages shows PR0 on toolbar. However if you check its listing in the google directory, you'll see otherwise. PR7.
I think there is weight to this theory. The pr is still there but the number is manipulated down. Perhaps that number in the toolbar is just that, a number and one that can't really be trusted.
Sadly that isnt the case http://www.seocentro.com/tools/search-engines/pagerank-dc.html PR0 through the board. I just ran a check in google's directory avivadirectory isn't even listed in there? Strange
yea as much as this is possible I think that there would then be a reason why the valid isnt showing? I would imagine there would be something negative attached to this reason as to why its not showing the true value? I dont think its just a matter of not showing the real value so people couldnt push that as a postive in promoting their site..
Sadly it can, just like the tool I showed you on the other post. http://www.seocentro.com/tools/search-engines/pagerank-dc.html Maybe Google are giving everyone a fresh start to see if the serious people can make a go of it? Just a theory.
nah the PR hasnt been reset to let everyone start like a new site I have a site penalised which is PR0 and it isnt going anywhere from PR0 since Septemberish
I would really like to know the meaning of pagerank if the OP can explain that to me and then he is still able to say that he believes in PR then he needs serious help. Pagerank is a measure of popularity through backlinks from other websites. Aviva has numerous backlinks. The PR number is manipulated down to 0. Thats all.
What part of Matt Cutt's explanation on PR don't you understand smub? The fact the Google DO take into account backlinks, (and thats their formal stance on it) means that they are actively penalizingcertain areas of the internet (directories in this case) by giving them PR0 even though in theory they have enough backlinks to deserve more. The only possible theory to the contrary would be that every backlink Jeff for example has has been so devalued by Google that they count for absolutely nothing hence the PR0, that to me is not very likely. I may be wrong though, I'm just stating an opinion based on facts. To quote Sherlock Holmes..."when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?".
I don't care how Google decides whether a site is an authority site or not. The way I look at sites is that if they look like they have just been knocked up in a week or don't update their information then they are just sites and nothing else. Authority sites are sites where they are always worked on, updated regularly, keeps improving sections of the site, has a good amount of traffic, backlinks, good branding, etc.
no they aren't. phpLynx shows this status and is never updated as it doesn't need to be. Well it does need a decent design but that's about it, so your theory below isn't quite accurate, at least not in our case, possibly for directories though.