I'm afraid I am going to rant again. Why do directory owners claim to have PRx directories when soliciting submissions. I know their index page has PR but none of the inner pages have PR so a submitter will never benefit from this. I don't mind PR claims when the directory has inner PR because at least there is a chance of being listed in a PR Page. Otherwise there is no difference than submitting to a zero PR directory. I think some inexperienced webmasters may fall for this trick but I would think most would see right through this. What you say?
Yeh I always thought the same thing. But then again, Its always good to submit because in the future if the index page has a PR of e.g. 3, Eventually the inner pages will gain from that link.
I think people should pay less attention to the PR and rather see if those inner pages have been cached more recently. I've noticed a lot of directories have lost their inner page PR.
Good sites don't need to chase pagerank, so it just shows how many crap sites there really are. Even the ones with high PR are just selling it, and if you have to sell PR, then the site is also crap. If a site/directory is brilliant, it should be fine without PR, it's traffic that advertisers want - NOT PR. I want to know that when I place a link, that link gets clicked on lots, I want the traffic to my site so they buy or look or talk about what I have to offer. So many don't get the web or what it's about, they only see the $$$$$$$
As a rule of thumb if an announcement title includes the PR it's a dropped domain. Most savvy directory owners with a genuine PR will not use that to promote their site.
Maybe somebody somewhere should do something I feel the need for a new sticky on Solicitations & Announcements informing the less well informed of what to expect and to look out for when submitting to a directory.
I'm officially done chasing page rank as of this week. Time is better spent on building legitimate, sustained audiences for my websites.
I have seen this many times, i am trying to work with my directory (THE CIS LINKS DIRECTORY) , to link up and add articles to the site and also get the inner pages ranked well also. I dont think it has a rank right now, but i am working hard, using WhiteHat only techniques to get good ranking... ~ Mike
It may be a long and hard struggle, but i intend to use a fair bit of my spare time to help build back links, and keywords for each category in my website links directory. It may take some time, but in the end, it shall pay off for myself and the people who have their links in the The CIS Links Directory. Regards, ~ Mike
Even with link building, content, on page optimisation etc it's still hard. It's all about the niche, environment that pages, links, backlinks, content, domain etc sits in.
The same things over and over again, which one? The PR debate. Well yes it is annoying to see directories announced as PR such and such but this is what the market is demanding: "Submit my site to high PR directories!" When it comes down to it PR is something that early directories tried to use to sell links. Nowadays IF the submitter has any sense he´s looking at a directory for SERP benefit, keyword commonality and Traffic potential.. in that order... BUT will the submitter ever become that educated? Probably not.... Why not? Because google invented PR. A great marketing gimic to give the surfer a rough idea of the importance of a site relative to others. It has never been anything more than that.... I think you´ll find that until there is a truly quantifiable accurate traffic measure / user voting / feedback people will be head down only interested in "PR". Personally I think its great. I just keep building categories with unique titles, headers and listings and genuine SE traffic keeps going up and up... Why? Becasue it does what a directory is suppossed to: It helps the user find what he´s looking for. Oh, and its a PR0 directory So, leave those who want / are interested in PR to continue chasing it. Me, I´ll stick with great SERP´s and the traffic they bring!
Interesting thread! But not all those mentioning PR in Solicitations originate from dropped domain directories. That can easily be verified by checking with whois.domaintools.com/name of the site. However, I do agree that a directory with PR would most naturally have inner pages with PR too.
If a site claims to be PR4 and it is a PR4 then that is what is a PR4...what's behind the page is another matter, which becomes the submitters responsibility. no tricks in there.