DMOZ no more PR = 10?

[foy]

hm, for me it dropped to PR9 ...

[jackofalltrades]

im showing a 9 as well.

[rfgdxm1]

Yep, PR9 now. Along with some other pages that dropped from PR10 mentioned in another thread.

[starec]

yeah, I removed one link to dmoz recently. Will put it back, I promise ;)

[web_india]

starec, you shouldn't drop those links just like that. see what you have done ;)

[starec]

That's what happens when someone irresponsible owns a PR10 site:)

[rfgdxm1]

Does anyone still use Netscape? ;)

[julinho]

A sub-cat I follow closely dropped from PR5 to PR1 (and it had only 5 sites listed :( ).

Weird things happening at dmoz.

[cjtripnewton]

Inbound links went from 804,000 to 314,000.

[rogerd]

>>Inbound links went from 804,000 to 314,000.<<

Looks like you started something, Starec. ;) I find the category that went from 5 to 1 interesting - anything dicey there, julinho, like link farms, etc.?

[brotherhood of LAN]

/sidenote

Yahoo still at 10 though, remember last time round that PR "shifted" it was yahoo to give way first. I wonder.

[starec]

yes, for the moment I keep the link to yahoo so yahoo should not be affected by the starec's penalty.

next month I will put back the link to dmoz to make you guys happy. PR10 guaranteed.

[Powdork]

Wasn't dmoz down a lot last month. Perhaps when some of the cats were crawled they were down and the links weren't counted. The pr hasn't dropped for my cat though.
As an aside my google directory cat now shows up in my backlinks even though it is pr 3.

[julinho]

rogerd,
The category which went from PR5 to PR1 is for adults; send me a private mail if you want to know it.
As I said, there are now 6 sites listed, one is mine; of the other five, two have PR0, one has a gray PR and the other two have regular PR (all small sites).

And yes, I am sure the PR was 5 (itīs not everyday that you can be listed at a PR5 with five links).

[djgreg]

I am the editor of some dmoz categories and I experienced the following:
Imagine a folder tree:
/cat1/cat2
I am responsible for both cats. Cat1 has a PR4 , cat2 has a PR5. Strange thing, he?

[Powdork]

I am responsible for both cats. Cat1 has a PR4 , cat2 has a PR5. Strange thing, he?

Did you check the backlinks? Maybe someone else actually linked to it. I wouldn't link to dmoz. I hear they are a bad neighbourhood. ;)

[EliteWeb]

9/10 for me, its because they havnt updated their search index since Sept 28th :P

[ciml]

Good point Powdork, does anyone have an idea of how much of www.DMoz.org was in Google's last index?

[rogerd]

Julinho, I suppose their could be a variety of reasons for the PR drop, but in a spammy area like p*rn, it wouldn't surprise me if one or more of the 5 listed sites was penalized. If so, the DMOZ page could be picking up a "linking to a bad neighborhood" penalty...

[rfgdxm1]

>Did you check the backlinks? Maybe someone else actually linked to it. I wouldn't link to dmoz. I hear they are a bad neighbourhood.

Right. Personally, if I ever did decide to link to the DMOZ it would be to the section of it that would interest the users of my site, not the whole DMOZ itself. My 2 sites home pages have Google PR *higher* than the DMOZ category they are listed in. If I decided to link to this DMOZ cat on the home page of both sites, it might be enough to raise that cat's PR.

[cjtripnewton]

This morning DMOZ is an 8.

<added> Well, it's fluctuating actually between 8 and 9 for me. </added>