Why Article Directories have low PR

If you search "article directory" at Google, you will see that most of the article directories has low PR. Why does this happen? Are they penalized by Google? Or is the real PR value hidden by Google?

 

the same reason other sites have low pr, "lack of links pointing at the site". That's all it is.

 

Maybe because article directories (non-unique content) don't get much traffic and webmasters stop working on them after some time.

 

I guess article directories are not as profitable as web directories,so webmasters work less on them..
btw,a member called coolweb on dp has a PR6 article directory:http://www.e-topic.com/

 

Thats only because of lack of links pointing to the article directory. I dont think google penalize this niche.

 

links are the one that helps you for your PR so it just because they do not have a lot of of links pointing to them...

 

yeah, I'm pretty sure PR is just your ranking of the amount of links you have to your site. So those articles don't have that many links leading up to them.

But keep this in mind, just because an article directory doesn't have a high PR, doesn't mean it doesn't get a high amount of traffic. And just because a directory has a high PR, doesn't mean it gets high amounts of traffic.

 

I wouldn't be surprised if Google adds these types of sites manually into their algorithm to devalue their links, it might be somewhere in their secret sauce. BUT these sites often rank higher than the content sites that pick the articles up, even if you submit to them after you've already placed your articles on a number of content sites.

 

I guess it's the amount of backlinks they have. Although I must say that some of the directories get quite a few backlinks, just most of them are normally PR0 - PR1.

 

that depents on which article directory you mention . ezinearticles.com is an article directory but its pr is 6 . it's related with link building

 

Yeah, it has PR6, but the articles pages/linking pages, all of them have pr0.

This could probably due to an answer?

Could it be possible for the directories to lost positions in webmasters' eyes???

 

I have an article directory http://www.askcybersteve.com and it's PR4

 

It use to be 6 but now it's PR0 since the last update.

 

It is still 6 without the www.

 

OK!

Thanks, I guess they must have used a 301 redirect or something so that the http://ezinearticles.com gets the PR and not http://www.ezinearticles.com