PR 3 ranks lower than a PR 0

Yes. It was actually a concept suggested by a guy by the nickname of JoeBob a few years back, and he coined the term BLOOP (Back link Over Optimization Penalty). Many, myself included, thought it was just a conspiracy theory, but it does seem to hold water:

http://forums.seochat.com/showthread.php?p=111440

More recently, Matt Cutts did confirm that it is possible to harm a websites rankings by pointing too much link juice at it:

http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=384385

In reality it probably has to match a pattern of link building to trigger the penalty, but you can definitely reproduce it if you try.

-Michael

 

I would disagree with that.
If it would hurt your website's ranking, you can use it to hurt your competitor's ranking and it seems unfair.
Google always confirmed that some links may have 0 value on your ranking but they've never confirmed that links can have negative effect since a lot of people may use this effect to beat their competitors. so if they find the links spammy they may consider them as 0 value. (IMHO)

The over optimization penalty is when you do something on your site for example repeat a word or phase again and again with the goal to optimize the page for that keyword, then your site may get penalized.

 

You should follow the links, that's exactly what the article that Matt confirmed is discussing.

http://www.forbes.com/2007/06/28/negative-search-google-tech-ebiz-cx_ag_0628seo.html

It has nothing to do with "fair", it's just how the algo works. Google is so hyper-paranoid about people gaining rankings by gaming their system that they are more than willing to allow innocent sites to suffer in the unsuccessful attempts to stop it.

-Michael

 

It's like when google ranks a page it can be done without the pr showing.

 

Here are the latest "Conspiracy Theorists" speculations on Google penalties:

Conspiracy Theorists Unite! A thought on 'penalties'

 

the page rank has nothing to do how your site ranks in search engines. the content available on the pr0 site maybe more relevant then your site

 

Thanks everyone

 

I am just wondering if you really verified the site before you concluded.

According to me -- www.prchecker.info is a PR7 authority site. -With Google emphasizing on putting more authority sites on top of SERPs -- it is a WONDER that you can still compete with this site

Please check

 

LOL, you got him wrong !
He refers prchecker as the place to check his site's pagerank, not as a competitor.

 

Ahhh-- Yes. It was my mistake.
My sincere apology to the OP