PR7 to PR6

How long will penalties last?

[CCowboy]

My PR7 site went down to a PR6. I think it was because I had too many links (over 175) on my links page pointing to my other sites. I have corrected the problem.

The site is still showing PR7 in Directory.

How long will it take to return to PR7?

Thanks

[div01]

I had too many links (over 175) on my links page pointing to my other sites

What is the recommended max number of internal links, on one page?

[markusf]

100 links..

Since hes pointing to other sites that would count as external not internal.

[vitaplease]

CCowboy,

With every update its more difficult to keep up Pagerank if no new external links are pointing to your site or to the sites linking to you. You probably were just slightly in the PR7 bracket. Now slightly under the threshold.

The fact that you have 170 external links on a links page has little direct influence IMO.

[TheComte]

I think if you were penalized, you wouldn't currently be PR6. Their PR algo seems to be changing a lot over the last few months. Probably you just need to re-examine and do a little more work on your backlinks to get back to PR7.

[doc_z]

I don't think that you were penalized. A change in the Tollbar PR can be caused by

- a decrease of the PR of some pages linking to your site
- a decrease of transferred PR through additional links on pages with backlinks to your site
- a change in the PR algorithm
- a change in the Toolbar scale (The Toolbar PR is the relation to the most important page. Therefore, a change of the PR of this page can lead to a change of your Toolbar PR)

[Zapatista]

doc_z is right and his list is probably more of the reason why then any penality. Many people are quick to assume a loss in PageRank was do to a penality when that is often not the case.

[zgb999]

I remember GoogleGuy mentioning that the pagerank shown on the Toolbar could get lower with the last update but it wouldn't change SERPS.

I was happy to have had a warning from Googleguy because we have several sites with lower pagerank but they all kept the positions they had.

So basically I understood that pagerank was lower for all sites (though this doesn't mean that the green pixels on the toolbar change for all sites). If this is the case it doesn't matter for the ranking.

[fathom]

So basically I understood that pagerank was lower for all sites

And makes perfect sense too.

Google continues the crawl new pages and since PageRank is calculated over the WWW universe (as Google knows it) at 3+ billion pages -- all PageRank levels will continue to decline if not continuously adding new PageRank as the rate Google finds new pages.

[Zapatista]

As long as PageRank is affected for ALL sites, losing pagerank should not affect much of a change on one's serps. That makes perfect sense. And Ditto for what fathom says.

[mosley700]

PR7 to PR6
How long will penalties last?

Am I the only one that found this humourous? That's not a penalty. PR0/ PR1 are penalties.

[Zapatista]

No I thought it was funny too. Wish I had that problem of dropping from a 7 to a 6.