How Google Page Rank update is affecting the directories?
Posted by Marius Mailat on 11 Nov 2007 at 08:58 pm | Tagged as: SEO news
Since the Google Page Rank Update from 26.10.2007 I have detect some major changes in the way the Page Rank is distributed over the directories from the Website Submitter. I have run some comparison in my tests.
Number of directories: 3574
Directories type: free, paid, reciprocal, regional
| Before Google PR update | After Google PR update | |
| PR0 | 357 | 1207 |
| PR1 | 116 | 328 |
| PR2 | 376 | 636 |
| PR3 | 922 | 704 |
| PR4 | 1009 | 453 |
| PR5 | 517 | 172 |
| PR6 | 204 | 56 |
| PR7 | 47 | 14 |
| PR8 | 23 | 4 |
| PR9 | 2 | 0 |
| PR10 | 1 | 0 |
You can observe based on the date before the Google update and after a big difference between the way Google PR is distributed over these directories. Infact we can call it a downgrade, the number of directories with PR0 before the Google PR update was 357, after the PR update the number increased to 1207. I have displayed bellow in a graphical mode the distribution of the new Google PR and the PR fluctuations.
Is this with a automated system? I don’t think it’s true.
Interesting statistics, personally I think this PR update is just a random walk, at the moment PR is just a useless benchmark for quality.
- storny: I do not understand your question.
- Red Pine: Indeed PR is a sign sometimes of quality but is quite a criteria to take in consideration for various considerations. For example at in a link building campaign you should consider the Google PR one of your important criterias.
Interesting. I think the stats are credible. Great work!
Great bit of work, I don’t know what crap redpines is coming out with as his PR6 for www.redpines.org is clearly a fake representation based on archived and registration details.
- Cristina, Redpines is an expample of someone who bought a high PR domain then plonked a directory on it in the hope of bullshitting people.
LOL well Red Pines was built on a dropped domain that had pr3, and it’s a directory for more than 1 year, if you do a little research you will see it won the PHPLD directory of month more than 1 year ago (http://www.phplinkdirectory.com/articlescript/Site_of_the_Month_Winners/Site_of_the_Month_September_2006.php) As I stated I really don’t give PR that much importance.
Good analysis. My take is this is G’s attempt at trying to level the playing field for all directories, presumably to dissuade PR hunters. I’d like to think they got it right but when I see one of my directories that has not really been promoted and has a couple of hundred outbound links rocket from PR0 to PR6 I get suspicious…
This is some great stats here. Very useful to be used.
Well I have seen some posts now stating that though their PR and come down to 0 (ZERO), the link backs would still be helpful for ranking higher on other search engines. Does it really ?
Each search engine has an own algorithm. What Google is seeing as spam can be seen by Yahoo as an allowed technique.
What are the alog’s of other search engines. A lot has been written about Google. What does one do for ranking higher on msn, yahoo, etc.
Dan,
I see you are coming from directory-owners forum that has the notorious distinction of not promoting directories but asingle agend on hand - destroying the industry. This is very much evident on DP.
What redpines got is the correct algo with google. Those who promotted too much got the boot from G and those who are making it slow and natural are getting some results. Nothing evil on th part of redpines owners.
A very interesting report. I am glad that fellow romanian webmasters are doing such a job.
hi,
can u provide me with the list of free or paid directories?
Thank you Mihai for your words, check also this Romanian blog post which is analyzing the Romanian directories also: http://www.submitsuite.ro/blog/cum-influenteaza-actualizarea-google-page-rank-directoarele-romanesti
BHaloo, the list for which I have done the study contains 3500 directories and is included in the last version 2.0 from Website Submitter: http://www.submitsuite.com/products/website-submitter.htm
Dear,
I also can’t understand the Google PR Algorithm as well as his Calculation! I am also DROPPED DOWN TO PR1-PR0!
But just see this site having no usefull content & his PR3 still standing to sumanainfotech.com
& please have a look on the inner pages of the said site & see the Google PR Calculation!!!
sumanainfotech.com/brochure.htm
sumanainfotech.com/catalogue.htm
sumanainfotech.com/banner.htm
sumanainfotech.com/corporate.htm
sumanainfotech.com/contactus.htm
I am sure you can able to see another falk link of this website!!!
With Best,
B Biswanath.
Great work. Perhaps this is just another sign that Google rules the web! Alternatively, maybe they’ve caught up with the people who’ve been using directories only to gain a better PR - I don’t know. I do know that with my brand new articles directory at http://www.calmingwords.com, I’m disappointed by the number of people who blatantly abuse the opportunity to post genuinely useful articles. I receive so much keyword-rich material posing as an ‘article’: often there’s no author’s name…just the link to a website. Very naughty (and annoying).
I agree, fantastic post and thankfully my directory was not hit, however I don’t sell links on it, so that may have helped.
I believe it is Goggles way to stop people buying there way to the top, the interesting thing though is, what will happen next time? I would imagine a slight readjustment and perhaps a gradual straight line down from PR0 through to 8.
Without looking at each directory’s PR move you can’t be sure, but the data makes it look like google is leveling all PR down, because web sites are all gathering links like crazy…
For example, maybe it used to take say 200 backlinks to be PR3, but after the update it takes say 500? (I know one way, reciprocal, relevance, trust, etc all plays a part).
Or is it that all directories are receiving a lower PR because webmasters are using them like link farms, so google gives them less weight to pass on?
I think Pagerank is for ‘entertainment’ as stated by Matt Cutts of Google somewhere I read.
My www.dbperl.com came down some weeks ago from PR5 to PR0, yet it is still in the top-10.
My site www.toptenserp.com, 2 days less than 2 months old (operational on Oct 9, 2007) is top-10 for 2 phrases though the pagerank in the browser shows grayed.
kinda weird, all of a sudden this week I got a PR 0 after all this time I’ve been getting PR3…
Interesting stats . From an SEO point of view still think directory submission is worthwhile
Hi,
Fantastic post. My website globalcar.ro is also dropped down from PR3 to PR2…
This is a great article, while I personally believe others are too worried about their PR I appreciate your statistics.