LOR - my sites have gone

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Originally Posted by Greenie

Let me make one thing clear - I am not solely basing this on the lack of PR - I'd be insane to do that.

I'm assuming there is a problem with the domain

Based on the age & the number of links, there should be PR on the domain, but there isn't & that leads me to believe that there is a problem.


Bash me if you want - and if some PR appears

Greenie - you know Im not gonna bash you - but the line of reasoning doesnt make any sense from a Link List point of view - unless Ive been out of the loop way too long - the point of listing free sites and providing a recip trade for that listing was all traffic based - and had no basis in where a free site ranked or for that matter, whether it was even listed in SE's?? Now I know that a few LLs have made a point of rewarding free sites that existed with Google rankings but that was extra bonus's - not the basis of acceptance for listing

The problem of not showing PR can probably be easily explained in this case because he doesnt do any interlinking within that domain - if he didnt have an index page that would make sense - and for that matter he may have a noindex in his robots text for Google - it doesnt matter though because that was never anywhere near a rule for acceptance - Google certainly doesnt show true PR anywhere and hasnt since almost two years ago - as well as their link: command being scaled back to just show a representative sample of links

If I were going to try to look at whether a domain is banned it sure wouldnt be in Googles index - I would use the domaintools whois tool as they will show blacklisting of domains for spam etc.

/added - I suppose if someone really wanted to go to the trouble of worrying about free sites having some acceptance in SEs - the first rule I would have to add is that I would be able to spider the robots.txt as Im sure there are some WMs out there that do prevent some robots from spidering their pages - I know of one host already that is used by some free site submitters that throttle robot flow and in some cases a free site submitter has (for some reason) prevented robots