UKSEOconsultant - 5:00 pm on Jun 11, 2008 (gmt 0)

Hi all, just wondering if anyone can shed a little light on this;

We have a site that has been around since March 2004, it went offline in Apr 2005 until May 2007. In Feb 2008 the homepage had a Google PR4 and the sub pages PR0. Now the homepage is PR1 and the sub pages PR4.

Since February this year We have been securing relevant links to the subpages (PR2+) and manually submitted the homepage to around 850 general direcotories including DMOZ & Yahoo.

Firstly, in my opinion the only cause of the homepage PR drop can be the directory submissions.. is Google now penalising sites that are linked to from these direcories?

Secondly, I can't see how we could have generated a PR4 for the subpages in this short time.. not that we're moaning!

This has got us puzzled, anyone else had a similar experience?

Many thanks