Pagerank (PR) Update 11/8/2011
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FirstPageResults
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Had some go up, but one went down site-wide.. not that it matters 
neddy
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I'm still discovering PR increases
Some people are also discovering PR decreases.
I'm not an expert on the subject, but I understand from talking to a few knowledgeable people that PR is not such an important factor these days?
Hi there,
Im new to DN Trade so firstly id like to say hi!
I recently bought a whole bunch of domains that had PR 3s and 4s, however when I checked yesterday most of them fell to PR 0s and 1s.
They are all similar type domains, they are .com.au, they have 3-4 pages each, have content relevant to the url and have been indexed since 2006-2007.
I bought them due to their age, nothing has been done in the way of content or any changes for a number of years.
I guess I bought them cause they have good url names and the by linking from them to other sites I thought would be good idea given their age and inbound links.
Of course I am concerned that they have drastically dropped in PR value.
Any thoughts? Will links from these sites to other sites be discounted in value do you think?
Cheers, would appreciate any feedback as am relatively new to the SEO game.
Ta, John.
Im new to DN Trade so firstly id like to say hi!
I recently bought a whole bunch of domains that had PR 3s and 4s, however when I checked yesterday most of them fell to PR 0s and 1s.
They are all similar type domains, they are .com.au, they have 3-4 pages each, have content relevant to the url and have been indexed since 2006-2007.
I bought them due to their age, nothing has been done in the way of content or any changes for a number of years.
I guess I bought them cause they have good url names and the by linking from them to other sites I thought would be good idea given their age and inbound links.
Of course I am concerned that they have drastically dropped in PR value.
Any thoughts? Will links from these sites to other sites be discounted in value do you think?
Cheers, would appreciate any feedback as am relatively new to the SEO game.
Ta, John.
Do they have good quality backlinks?
when checking PR I only use SEOQuake
and this needs to be updated as many pr checker websites show N/A rankings including SEOQuake this has been fixed by using an update For SeoQuake.
If the sites don't have good quality Pr Backlinks or worse no backlinks Your PR will drop.
sorry to hear that some of your rankings have dropped I hope this has been somewhat helpful.
Hi there Zhenjie,
Interestingly the owner names have changed but the hosting hasnt. They are still running on the previous owner's server, am going to redirect them next week. They didn't drop - the sites are still hosted and running.
So not a single change has happened which has me stumped.
All the inbound links to the sites are still there - I have checked this.
I have not created any new links to the sites either.
Literally nothing has changed from google's view - at least as far as I can tell.
Only the ownership name.
Interestingly the owner names have changed but the hosting hasnt. They are still running on the previous owner's server, am going to redirect them next week. They didn't drop - the sites are still hosted and running.
So not a single change has happened which has me stumped.
All the inbound links to the sites are still there - I have checked this.
I have not created any new links to the sites either.
Literally nothing has changed from google's view - at least as far as I can tell.
Only the ownership name.
Hi there Xwdomains,
I used http://pagerank.my-addr.com/ to check the PR, both prior to drop and after the drop in PR values.
SEO quake PR values correlate with the outcome on the above checker. Like you said however, a lot of the inner pages show N/A.
I appreciate that if the links have been pulled then the pR drops - but it appears none of the links have disappeared.
The links are not high PR values but having said that they have remained the same for a long period of time. Some of the links are 4-5 years old so this should be reflected in the older PR rankings reviews by Google I would have guessed.
Ultimately though yes, they have fallen. I just hope that the linking juice from these site remain despite the PR drop..
I used http://pagerank.my-addr.com/ to check the PR, both prior to drop and after the drop in PR values.
SEO quake PR values correlate with the outcome on the above checker. Like you said however, a lot of the inner pages show N/A.
I appreciate that if the links have been pulled then the pR drops - but it appears none of the links have disappeared.
The links are not high PR values but having said that they have remained the same for a long period of time. Some of the links are 4-5 years old so this should be reflected in the older PR rankings reviews by Google I would have guessed.
Ultimately though yes, they have fallen. I just hope that the linking juice from these site remain despite the PR drop..
James
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Hi John,
My Guess is the person who sold the domains inflated the page rank of the domains with his own websites and then removed the links from his own properties.
You need to check freshness of the links too, some times you can have a site which is a PR5 and then instantly is drops.
Another worrying aspect is that these sites are only 3-4 pages big, that is not a lot of content imo.
For further information on this update you can check out: http://www.seroundtable.com/google-pagerank-update-14267.html
These guys have a good review of the Page rank update,
My advice to all is not to buy Websites based on Page rank look at more factors such as:
- Index age of the website
- Pages the website has ie 3 pages vs 30,000
- Is the website hosted on the same IP
- Placement of the link on page - more information here from a guy I know - http://www.practicalseo.org/blog/link-placement-seo-case-study-2/
Hope this helps.
FirstPageResults
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Too hard to say without knowing the history of these domains, but buying purely on PageRank without looking into the link profile is a bad idea.
The inbound links may have been devalued by Google due to poor quality, which in turn has lowered your PR.
Also as James mentioned, the sites sound fairly low in quality, best to add some fresh quality content.
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