Well i have a directory with 4,600 links, and i just ran the PR update script for all the sites in it and: 2,143 - Increased 1,456 - No Change 992 - Decreased
What I meant by that is, for sites that have had little, or no, changes in backlinks since last update the average PR is down.
I don't know since I really don't check. From what I can see Google did change the way it Ranks Pages because of the wide spread abuse. I think things will settle with the next update. On a side note. With this update I've also learned that it is best to be very careful when adding links of buying links.
This has always held true - and probably even more so now. Don't buy crap links from crap sites and your site won't become a crap site. Or something like that. ;-)
yeah after 3 months, greater penalty to get you on the road where even PR 0 site wont bother to look at your site to buy links anymore. Even after being penalised for buying links, people still can think of buying links. Thats just say more people are on the fast way to get to the most obvious.
Did you excluded the new sites? This PR occurred in 4 or 5 months after the last one, so you should exclude all PR0 links... because if they didn't had an pagerank before you can't say they were increasing or decreasing
You want to say that google have a new algo that only measure the new bought links ? so only the past 3 months links are counting?!
Whether link prices will increase or decrease will depend on the view of linkbuyers. The no. of the link selling high PR sites have been reduced, and that the webmasters of the remaining sites may be scared into selling links. However, Google's target audience is as much to the link buyer as the link seller. All will depend on how the link buyers see this.
Probably true. And I think that the rel="nofollow" may massacre the paid links industry. Realistically, those of us who have been regular submitters to directories have done so primarily for the PR pass-through effect. Traffic from directories for most of us is small (about 1% of my traffic). Without a PR benefit, what will be the value of buying paid links that send little or no traffic? On the other hand, I suspect that the free directories will flourish. For no expense, by submitting to free directories webmasters can still increase their links count (with good anchor text), which apparently still remains an important measurement for some search engines.
Guys its very simple really .... You can buy and sell text links all you want, Google and Matt Cutts says its ok BUT you need to stick the rel="nofollow" tag in your links. Simply put Google doesnt want text link sales giving people PR juice. If you're buying for traffic and visibility then its fine to buy and sell text links and you wont mind the inclusion of the nofollow tag. Of course if youre looking for that magic bullet PR7 site to send some PR juice your way then forget about it because its gonna do more harm than you think... It might help if you guys actually read what google and matt cutts are saying ?
tradedemon: I agree with you Too bad for me, 1 Cool File just got a PR6. I could had make more money but I will use the nofollow. Anyway, my site has content(shareware/freeware, blogs) and advertising is to make them stand up more from the rest.