Just few hours back - my toolbar PR gave me PR6 for DP home-page ( http://forums.digitalpoint.com/ ). But now - it is showing PR4! Anybody noticed this? Third party tools also shows me same results. http://www.digpagerank.com/index.php?url=http://forums.digitalpoint.com&dc=18 I don't think there is another PR update going on - and I believe DP should have PR7/8 due to its popularity and importance for webmasters and the web in a whole. WTF is Google doing?
yea.. Digitalpoint.com and forums.digitalpoint.com are now pagerank 4 ..It is confirmed. I don't trust my toolbar so i managed to check on several DC's and they all say PR 4. I checked that on digpagerank.com and it says the same thing. DP is full of outbound links and that may be the reason.. this also implies that links from DP will have little or no value at all. It is sad though!
OMG...Google is becoming crazy day by day.. Both digitalpoint.com and forms.digitalpoint.com are showing pr4. Is this google penalty??
Could be the reason. I wonder how much incoming links? Frankly I have always been amazed that signature links can be beneficial to SEO. You'd think the engine would recognize clustering of links with such regularity.
take a look at sitepoint. sitepoint tries to control the number of outbound links and it is PR 7 but DP is even greater than sitepoint so DP should have been somewhere around PR 8 or even PR 9 instead DP is PR 4
yea you are right. PR is useless but at least it gives a little indication of how the search engines view your site.
PR is not just about backlinks! backlink is just a factor in the PR calculation. What is on your site (content) is the major key in the PR calculation. DP has content but the content is mixed with gabbage to the point where search engines such us the google cannot distinguish between the good and the bad and hence classifies the good with the bad.
DP homepage is now PR4. And the inner page PRs have dropped correspondingly. To be honest, with the popularity of DP I was always a surprised that the homepage was only PR6. Google may not be looking too kindly on DP which is a pity since it's the most interesting forum I've been a member of.
Lazarus1 You said "PR is useless but at least it gives a little indication of how the search engines view your site." My point was it is not the search engines, it is Google only. The other engines couldn't care less about PR...
DP PR is 4 now, so what ??? Otherwise, This could be used as a confirmation for PR Freaks... PR is useless and DP is still showing and ranking high in the SERP's
I hope you're joking with that info in your post. Its so wrong. If you believe that to be true I strongly suggest you do some more research on PR.
i was weeping on lost of my 14$ from adsence balance and now thinking "thank God" they do not eat my PR