I remember that Statcounter has PR10 before and then down to PR9 and latest PR8. Today there has PR6!! See here PR10 --> PR 9 --> PR 8 --> PR6 Woww - Real update with some harsh penalize.
I think this has also ready been mentioned in several other threads before. It is a big drop though in PR terms.
Yup! many big names suffers in this update. I think Google has changes its policy to the more big name you got the more google watch over you.
Hey I got an idea. It may be because Google has Google Analytics and they want to kill their competitor.
No sure if they sell links - they do have a selection of links on the left side of their page. However, someone else mentioned in another thread about Statcounter being in direct competition with Google Analytics - lets hope thats not the case that Google are going to start penalizing anyone who is in competition with them ( Don't think this will be the case - not until we see Yahoo and MSN with a PR 4 each !! )
I have heard they sell link while they had PR10 and I have heard again thereafter that Google penalize on them for selling link. Then their PR dropped from 10 to 9 and latest is 8 until 6 now. woww
Not publicly like directories, but lets just say there were some high PR pages with a few non-relative links at the bottom. Google is really cleaning house of not necessarily 'paid' links but 'paid for PR' links. Of course you'll still see a bunch of disillusioned dittoheads on these forums with 'PR doesn't really matter' 'it's the SERPS that count'. Well....GOOGLE sure thinks PR matters A LOT and is hammering people that sell PR.
I forget to say EUROS,not dollars. Maybe,but they still have a lot of webmaster traffic so i think it worth it,it just not so atrractive as it was before