Why PR0 on old site

PR0 on Old Site

[ogletree]

I have 2 sites that have been around for some time. I have no idea what the PR's used to be on them since I just found out about the PR rating. Actually I did see a category listing on Google that I was in and it had a green bar next to it that looked like I had a PR1 at some time. We are ranked 2.6Mil or so on Alexa. The site went through a major change 2 months ago. We changed it from a flat sight to a dynamic site. A week ago the caches had the old version but as a few days ago had the new site on the cache. Now we have about 7 sites most of them have their own IP. Most of the sites link to each other. I just added a Site Map today since we use graphical DHTML menus. I know this is a lot but I wanted to give all the information that might help in answering my question. We get a lot of hits because we do a lot of Pay Per Click advertising on overture and looksmart. Almost all our clicks come from that or from direct URL type ins. We do a lot of print and TV advertising. I get about 20,000 page views a day from all my sites. 3 of the sites get about 250 visitors a day. I filter out as many bogus hits from the stats as I can. Why do I have a PR0 on all my sites even the old ones?

[wruk999]

Hi ogletree,

Firstly, Welcome to WebmasterWorld [webmasterworld.com]!

Have a read through the Google FAQ's [searchengineworld.com] on Search Engine World.

Either you have no backlinks which themselves have good PR, or your site has been penalised for reasons that I would not know.

I'm no expert, but I have heard people on this board mention that cross-linking all your own sites is bad?

Regards,
wruk999

[rfgdxm1]

Sounds like a penalty, unless somehow you managed to have old sites, yet no significant backlinks.

[ogletree]

Several years ago the site had tons of free listing on all the search engines. Google seems to be the only search engine that has penalized us. One of the search engines has a ton of my old links that don't even exist anymore. I know the good ones get rid of those. I am working on implamenting the things I have read on this site. I added a Stie Map (because we have DHTML menus). I have changed the Title on every page to reflect the desired keyword for that page. We had the same Title on every page with just the company name (very stupid I did not do it). I plan on making several entry pages that are fast and load quickly. We get a lot of people typing in the website name so we want to keep it looking nice and we do want people to visit our other sites. I guess I just need to have sites designed just for the search engine. We own a lot of domains to do that with. Is it best to have these sites have no links at all to any of our main sites and vice versa or are one way links ok. What I mean is to have the search engine friendly sites link to our main but not the main to them. Is that ok.