Memberlists Losing Google PR?

I've noticed that many of the memberlists have lost their pr at google.
Do you think google is catching on and is working on stopping spammers
from using them to get links? Or do you think some of the lists
themselves have lost their own links and so their pr naturally dropped?

"Ryan" <. (AT) mail (DOT) com> wrote

I've noticed that many of the memberlists have lost their pr at google.
Do you think google is catching on and is working on stopping spammers
from using them to get links? Or do you think some of the lists
themselves have lost their own links and so their pr naturally dropped?

I am seeing new directory index type sites being set up every few days that
look like quasi-copies of Google or DMOZ directories. These sites generally
have very low PR. They generate very little traffic, except for the
occasional site where there is obviously a community of interest and in
these cases such new directories can generate several hits per day. Is
this to what you are referring, when you say "memberlists ?"

Regarding the PR display, I only see the display on about 40% of occasions,
even when I know the page has a valid PR value. If I do "backward links" or
"similar pages" and then back to the actual page the PR value always
appears. Does anyone else see this? Are some ISPs blocking a proportion of
PR requests to reduce the traffic ?

Eric

On Sat, 13 Sep 2003 12:20:41 +0100, "Eric Johnston"
<eric.johnston (AT) blueyonder (DOT) co.uk> wrote:

I am seeing new directory index type sites being set up every few days that
look like quasi-copies of Google or DMOZ directories. These sites generally
have very low PR. They generate very little traffic, except for the
occasional site where there is obviously a community of interest and in
these cases such new directories can generate several hits per day. Is
this to what you are referring, when you say "memberlists ?"

Hi,

Think the poster is referring to the memberlists of forums (normally
called memberlist). Do a Google search for the word memberlist and
you'll see there are a lot of these pages.

Some memberlists are indexed and so pass on PR, recently you'll find a
lot of these pages have started showing PR0 on the toolbar. This
suggests Google is discounting them possibly because they are
increasingly being spammed just for PR and so those who run the forums
are wise to prevent spider access to those pages through their
robots.txt file etc...

David
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Free Search Engine Optimization, SEO and
Search Engine Placement Tips (updated 31/08/2003)
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/ooar123...-optimization/

Well you'll never get listed on dmoz unless it snows on the 4th of July,
then maybe. But as far as google goes they may be headed the same
direction as dmoz in the not so far off future. Apparently dmoz is
abandoning php for blogs because they own bogger.com which in my opinion
is a conflict of interests. Blogs are given incredibly high pr when they
get a few links added to their credit. Also what we're seeing at google
in the adult sites is a return of the large spammers. I'm talking very
large companies that have bought 100's of domain names and hire people
to make 1000's of pages for each site and link farm everything and right
now google is not only allowing it but letting them take over nearly
every part of adult. Remind you of anything? It should because this is
similiar to what dmoz did 3 years ago and a campaign was started to get
rid of them from aol as far as dmoz doing site listings (results). The
dmoz editors were warned what would happen to them and they just laughed
and arrogantly stated aol will never stop using dmoz to do the url
results cough cough yeah right dmoz. Well Google may be the next giant
to fall if it keeps moving in the direction it has started to move to.
Right now we're just watching very carefully but we are ready to act
sooner than most people think and I do mean in the very very near future
if google doesn't back off on what it seems to us that they are doing
now. Only this time it won't be aol we boycott, it will also be yahoo
and also google's biggest sponers as well. Can Google afford to lose the
aol and yahoo accounts and their biggest sponsers? I don't think so. So
chin up my friend we may need your help in the mother of all corrupt
search engine fights soon to possibly happen. You are the first civilian
I've publicy told this to so feel honored. If anyone from google is
reading this take warning and laugh loud at this if you choose. dmoz
editors are still in stiches I hear and you can laugh right along side
them if you like. We made you google and we can break you just as
easily!

On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 13:45:56 GMT, Sam <. (AT) mail (DOT) com> wrote:

If anyone from google is
reading this take warning and laugh loud at this if you choose.

I don't work for Google, but will be happy to piss myself laughing at
your post ROFLOL

David
David
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Free Search Engine Optimization, SEO and
Search Engine Placement Tips (updated 31/08/2003)
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/ooar123...-optimization/

SEO will you still be laughing when your real sites (those adult links
at the bottom of your SEO fence page) all drop to a pr0 once you don't
have memberlists to get your links from?