this worth for backlinks for high count posts I love Dp dofollow forums.. my post will show high in serp sometime and let me get customers lol..
First off, to say Google "hates" DP is completely unfounded. Second, Google made a mistake creating toolbar PR and they know it. Too many webmasters buy and sell "PR", so besides droping the PR of sites that do this, they have also made PR even more "meaningless" and reduced most sites PR who had high PR. DP's ranking in the SERP's are still high, just the "little green bar" is lower. My site had a PR6 and PR5 sub pages for years, then it changed to a 3, with 2's and 0's for the sub pages, yet my actual rankings in the SERP's increased. My point is, toolbar PR is meaningless and too many webmasters "worry" about it. Actual "surfers" don't even know what PR is or even care...let alone have the toolbar in the first place. Focus on great content that's user friendly, NOT PR!
Well said, I much appropriate your explanation. We must care about the content, not the PR. It likes fashion, not the brain.
DP PR once reached 7 then came back to 6. Now its 4 and this is the first time I am seeing such low PR for DP forum home page. Anyway, I think like many other members said, DP may get back its old PR back sooner or later.
great content means that people will be willing to give you backlinks naturally and so your pagerank rises, if that concerns you. great content can also bring good or great traffic if the site is well optimized and gets good search engine results. i see pages with pr 0 doing very well in their keyword niche in my area, while others do need to have a higher pr to get on the first page of results it seems (or else be a more of an authority travel site, as google now heavily favors such Authority sites even in local travel niche/area results). DG falling may be due to a manual adjustment or just from the new algo or their backlinks may have been downgraded etc etc; and it may well be bakc up to pr 6 next month.....
Many says PR is worthless.. found many are looking for PR and almost SEO's are caring about PR... and found their site having some PR... Also Google itself says High ranked site have priority in SERP... (check on Google webmaster guideline).. Whatever say.. me very much care about PR..
I agree with jake99n. Too many links on sigs will reduce DigitalPoint's PR. but i think DP will get a higher PR on the next PR update
I think the problem is the users CP are all public. it recomend to have a system like the signatures, after a some amount of posts the signature is visble. But the links on the profile are always visible... open to some spammers. if the forum don't show all users profiles the pr will go back to normal.
Well as long as DP is still visited by thousands of users everyday, the drop in pr does not bother me one bit.
So what seems to be the PR of DP before...? I know DP is so popular so PR is not the issue as long as there are many who trust DP... Its nice to be here... -Newbie-
IMO, i really think its because of the Database errors DP was going through during the past month However, DP has nothing to worry about.. it's ranking and still showing real high in the SERP's though.