Trading with penalized sites??

Bill · 2007-02-03, 06:50 PM

Do you know if they were zeroed before this latest pr update?

If they were zeroed by the last update, there's always the possibility that it's an artifact of the update, and they'll be back to normal next one.

If they were zeroed before, and didn't recover from the update, that would be more likely to be a sign google has decided there's something wrong with the site.

With links that old, if you thought the link was a good one before, I'd be inclined to wait one more update before deciding.

It might be worthwhile to contact the owner of the other pages and ask them if they know what happened.

You gotta talk to them anyway - dropping links without notifying the other guy is a risky thing to do, it can damage your reputation as a linker.

Bill · 2007-02-03, 06:59 PM

Any thoughts on why they may have lost pr Linkster?

It was clear they weren't banned - which leaves the question of "are they devalued somehow, and therefore risky to link to?".

Linkster · 2007-02-04, 07:04 AM

Bill - I have no way of seeing the PR

I would assume that its related to the problems that Google has been having with the PR display in the toolbar over the last two years - noticed some people complaining of the same thing on another board about their sites - and eventually it came back

Bill · 2007-02-04, 12:20 PM

I know you can't know, man, nobody can know. ;-} I was asking for your best guess.

Which sounds like the same as mine - If I had to say, my first choice would be "probably an artifact", by which I mean a peculiarity in the way the toolbar is displaying apparent pr.

Or a product of the internal linking or stucture of the domain - I didn't check to see if there was pr on the index if you typed out domain.com/index.html as opposed to just using the trailing slash.

You already mentioned possible problems with the structure of one of them - maybe leading to a canonical pages selection on googles part that took the pr off the index.

Which still leaves the question of "Is there a risk in linking to the page?".

I still end up with, if you aren't sure it was zeroed before this last pr "update", wait one more update to see if it's pr is restored. And notify the link trader so they can check their structure.

2007-02-04, 07:04 AM	#3
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2007-02-03, 06:50 PM	#1
Bill Selling porn allows me to stay in a constant state of Bliss - ain't that a trip! Join Date: Apr 2003 Posts: 3,914	Do you know if they were zeroed before this latest pr update? If they were zeroed by the last update, there's always the possibility that it's an artifact of the update, and they'll be back to normal next one. If they were zeroed before, and didn't recover from the update, that would be more likely to be a sign google has decided there's something wrong with the site. With links that old, if you thought the link was a good one before, I'd be inclined to wait one more update before deciding. It might be worthwhile to contact the owner of the other pages and ask them if they know what happened. You gotta talk to them anyway - dropping links without notifying the other guy is a risky thing to do, it can damage your reputation as a linker.

2007-02-03, 06:59 PM	#2
Bill Selling porn allows me to stay in a constant state of Bliss - ain't that a trip! Join Date: Apr 2003 Posts: 3,914	Any thoughts on why they may have lost pr Linkster? It was clear they weren't banned - which leaves the question of "are they devalued somehow, and therefore risky to link to?".

2007-02-04, 12:20 PM	#4
Bill Selling porn allows me to stay in a constant state of Bliss - ain't that a trip! Join Date: Apr 2003 Posts: 3,914	I know you can't know, man, nobody can know. ;-} I was asking for your best guess. Which sounds like the same as mine - If I had to say, my first choice would be "probably an artifact", by which I mean a peculiarity in the way the toolbar is displaying apparent pr. Or a product of the internal linking or stucture of the domain - I didn't check to see if there was pr on the index if you typed out domain.com/index.html as opposed to just using the trailing slash. You already mentioned possible problems with the structure of one of them - maybe leading to a canonical pages selection on googles part that took the pr off the index. Which still leaves the question of "Is there a risk in linking to the page?". I still end up with, if you aren't sure it was zeroed before this last pr "update", wait one more update to see if it's pr is restored. And notify the link trader so they can check their structure.