To those whose PR went DOWN

Discussion in 'Google' started by LongHaul, Oct 27, 2007.

  1. #1
    Why do you think the PR went down?

    Did you have a lot of AdSense or affiliate ads? Affiliate text links? Not enough backlinks? Too many? From the wrong types of sites?

    No new content in a while? No new content at all? ;)

    What are your reasons?
     
    LongHaul, Oct 27, 2007 IP
  2. astup1didiot

    astup1didiot Notable Member

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    Not many people are going to know why this happened, its almost impossible to tell. You could have lost PR due to your backlink's backlinks being penalized for selling text links. You'll just never know, adapt and move on is my answer. :D
     
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  3. LongHaul

    LongHaul Peon

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    #3
    Mine actually went up, from N/A to 5. I just wondered if there was something I should avoid doing ;) Plus I'm curious what I DID do, if anything, to get that, or if it was just sort of random...
     
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  4. Emperor

    Emperor Guest

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    #4
    I think buying text links on dropped domain sites is a good way to have your PR drop.
     
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    stock_post Prominent Member

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    #5
    To the ones that went up not sure why the PR went up on them!

    And for the ones went down, I am not sure why they went down!

    Big G is big Mystery to me!
     
    stock_post, Oct 27, 2007 IP
  6. almir

    almir Peon

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    #6
    Sites that have build their links with accent on directories links have been affected with PR drop, cause most of directories suffered PR penalty
     
    almir, Oct 27, 2007 IP
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    grg Guest

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    #7
    Some of my sites went up, and some went down with it's PR. If I could to try make any guess why, then I can say that if a site got new links in last couple of months (two or three) went up. Sites without any update and without new backlinks, went down (one of them even from PR3 to PR1).

    So, maybe value of backlinks decease with time? Maybe it is to early to set it as a new PR theory, but this is just my suspicion.
     
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  8. solar44

    solar44 Well-Known Member

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    #8
    My thoughts on this:

    Sites selling links get penalised.
    Sites getting links from those sites are also penalised.

    But how does google know if a site sells links?
     
    solar44, Oct 27, 2007 IP
  9. billion

    billion G.E.M.

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    #9
    Very interesting thought. It would explain most of the changes I've seen on my sites. Maybe a combination of this and random. :D
     
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  10. billion

    billion G.E.M.

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    #10
    It just checks if there is a buyer. :rolleyes:
     
    billion, Oct 27, 2007 IP
  11. lbalance

    lbalance Peon

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    #11
    my main forum went from 3 to 2.
    it gets fresh data daily.

    i have no explaination
     
    lbalance, Oct 27, 2007 IP
  12. dimo

    dimo Peon

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    #12
    the best you can make is aks youtube, they know for sure why :D
     
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  13. conceptsti

    conceptsti Active Member

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    #13
    the main youtube.com page went down in pr some videos still carry a high pr
     
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  14. michiganfootball20

    michiganfootball20 Peon

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    #14
    why does everyone even worry about pagerank. it does basically nothing to increase traffic anymore. google has almost abandoned its use completely.
     
    michiganfootball20, Oct 27, 2007 IP
  15. Forsh

    Forsh Well-Known Member

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    But I thought that Google understood that you can not control who links to you. So, if I wanted to take down the competition, all I would have to do is post their link on a blog network? See, that's treading in dangerous territory if that's the case in penalizing those links.
     
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    Brennan Notable Member

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    #16
    Probably went down because they lost some of the high PR backlinks.
     
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    strider Peon

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    #17
    I saw many sites that PR went down because they sell text links. I also notice that links from directory are discounted a lot.
     
    strider, Oct 27, 2007 IP
  18. LongHaul

    LongHaul Peon

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    #18
    I can understand such links being worthless, but actually dropping a site's PR because of that? That seems somewhat psychotic.
     
    LongHaul, Oct 27, 2007 IP
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    dmc3415 Peon

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    #19
    Links dead or passed on, less traffic. Thank god my PR only went down 1 point.
     
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  20. LongHaul

    LongHaul Peon

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    #20
    I bet Google has dead links and links from low-quality pages pointing to it, and they have PR10...
     
    LongHaul, Oct 27, 2007 IP