Google PR - DMOZ directory

what is happening

[colintho]

I posted several messages for advice regarding a recent "page jacking" of my site - the owner of which has now given me traffic back using a redirect.

Google is still showing PR6 for my site - but...

Today I have just noticed that my entry in google does not list my site as included in the directory, when checking the directory, my site is listed abou 3rd from the bottom of the list with no PR bar or PR score

It used to be amongst the top, with its PR6 score.

Is this a sign of the effects of the rogue site on my site PR?

I though Google did not allow another site to affect another sites ranking in a negative way?

This rogue site appears to be doing all these negative things.

I'm VERY concerned about the dmoz directory listing & the google listing without the category showing.

[JonB]

i jsut checked google dirtectory and your site in the profile is number 1 in directory.pr bar is green and is around pr 5 or 6.

[colintho]

thats just one of my sites - the site I was referring to is my main income / best performing site

[JonB]

oh..about second site..i checked and i see the same as you..i guess you are scre*ed on this one .

but after checking more on google i see that you have like 5-10 of your sites crosslinked..could be this..you can be lucky that only one site got hit..i crosslinked 5 sites at the bottom of their index sites and all 5 of them are dead for almost year now...

[colintho]

the situation was caused by search engine getting fooled into thinking his site was mine / listing his site with my site copy/design/content see cached copy

concern is the DMOZ entry DMOZ PR etc...

[JonB]

colinho: i dont have time now but if he linked to you and you dIDNt link to him then thsi could not be so big problem..the problem is if you link BACK..crosllink your OWN sites..

you mean google directory right? those green lines you see are in google directory not dmoz directory...

whcih raises question..does this RDF dump have some flags that tell google to gie this site pr 0? i thinkthat dmoz directory is "no flags" based for OUTSIDE world. that is hwen the site is in the directory then it has no negative flags or rating for google to check right? becasue if that was the case then offended url would be jsut removed from dmoz rather than flaging it..hm,..it is hard to explain i hope that you getthe idea...

[John_Caius]

Our site did this for just one month, but then returned to its previous position amongst the sites with green bars. We think the cause was that our server was down temporarily whilst googlebot was crawling.

However, there are some major sites that permanently don't have a pagerank bar in our category, such as a deeplink of the www.cdc.gov site. I don't understand fully why this might happen.

[colintho]

ok, DMOZ should read Google directory, my misunderstanding