Digitalpoint was penalized by Google? down to PR4 now? WTF!

I really doubt it is an intentional penalty or something like that. I think they lost some of their powerful links. They may go up during the next page rank. Besides page rank is really nonsense. Even Google don't use it so much for anything.

 

agree

no value of PR

 

I would assume it has something to do with people selling sig links. Any site where people sell links gets a penalty in PR first, and then if they don't change their policies, a hit in the SERPS.

 

Well, I'm starting to think its because of the tooooooo many links DP point out. Like all the signature links should be nofollowed!!! WTF everyone started selling sig links.

 

PR means nothing to a site like this,its the huge amount of Traffic that goes through it that is the life blood if thats stops the site dies.

 

what does PR mean nowadays anyway?

 

that sucks

 

DigitalPoint forever!

 

As Mega B says, this site no longer reliant on search engine traffic anyway, at this point I'm sure it's just gravy, the real traffic is from people like us who visit it every day.

 

DP is not Google and Google has no lifetime favorites
By the way everyone is talking about back-links and stuff.
Looks like none gave a thought on forum response time? (its been damn slow these days) what do you expect from a website/forum with that slowness? quick response or increased page rank?

No matter how reputed a website/forum is, if its dead slow for a period of time (days?) then obviously the site has to face the consequence.

 

DP threads are still showing up in the results, fairly highly when I look up webmaster related topic, guess drop in PR doesn't hurt.

 

for me DP was not penalized, and I know this is just for a while only.

 

People above have kind of justified the dip in Page rank , but why was it banned from adsense ?

I don't think PR is of any practical value , its the community and the traffic of dp that counts !

 

All-in-all it's really not a big deal, DP doesn't need search engine traffic, it has enough organic traffic from users like us that it doesn't matter.

 

I would like to throw few senarios for consideration:

1. Google reducing the pr of link selling websites:

Advantage:

downgraded pr could affect the link seller's credibility to their customer (Avarage internet user) since customers might take a long time to learn and adjust. I still check the pr of the site before I buy, though it does not make much sense, it is just a habit and has a significant impact on my decision as well.

Disadvantagious or unhelpful:

Google downgrading pr for the whole site instead of paidlink pages alone.

Some site don't sell links could also be affected that can create frustration, and the frustration could be worse since google has made link building extremely difficult.

It is already been reported here that google has downgraded the pr twice this month, I guess this may not have much or significant impact on link selling since the sellers and buyers will also adjust them selves.

Unaffected sites link pricing will be inflated. Would not be worth the money people will still be going for it.

2. pr reduction for paidlink pages, External link juice not passed, serp penaulty:

I believe blocking the link juice is already in practice with out much success with paidlinks, since most of the link buyers are businessmen not technical persons and they are not aware of this.

Serp penaulty for this would really make webmasters fired up and start the negative campain againt google saying that google

is imposing it disability on to the webmasters.

3. Dopping the pr completely:

I would prefer this like many others, but google may not be ready, for some reasons. But it can really improve the internet many ways. People will start trusting sites with good design and usability, it will force website owners to create more usable websites. People will also have difficulty on deciding the credibility of the website without the toolbar ultimately people will struggle and learn to assess websites. It will make consumers more intellegent. Google might loose a lot of data thorugh toolbar. People will only buy links for traffic, link juice will not matter since no one will have a clue how much it has really.

Suggestions:

Google can reduce link importance and improve the other factors. People are already sick of link development.

Reducing pr for specific pages will make webmasters to implement nofollow immediately, God should take care of innocent webmasters.

Reducing pr just shows the EGO of google, and only helps to threaten the webmasters and does not improve the serps. Stoping the link juice will the job. But pr reduction makes the site drop in customer's point of view, alternatively the pr can be turned off.

Adding nofollow should bring the pr back. (However I will not do that my paidlinks are as good as natural, some people live for their ideas whatsoever google is I am not guilty of being paid and do not come under google juridistriction)

 

For me? As long as DP is still an existing site and we can share ideas here and then earn some money through exchanging thoughts, services etc. then PR is just nothing compared to the friendships and clienteles built because of DP.