Link Pages - PR0

What should we do

[jjdesigns4u]

So Google has been giving PR0 to link pages. I have about 5 sites now that have received it.

I don't really know why but my real question is...

What should we be doing to compensate for this effect and the loss of PR

[David_M]

I've also noticed that my some pages with lots of links are getting a PR0. Especially outbound link pages.

I thought it was maybe a % of page text algorithm, but I have a sitemap thats a PR0 (with all internal links), while having another internal page with as many internal links with a PR4.

It could just be that google PR is still broken?

[coosblues]

There is a very large thread on this topic - can't seem to find it now but it should answer your questions. I'm currently having no problems with my links page nor have I ever. Suppose I'm one of the lucky ones.

[anallawalla]

Are such Links pages entitled "Links" or something similar? IOW, how does Googlebot detect a links page from regular outbound links?

- Ash

[Tropical Island]

While our site map pages still have PR it has been reduced by PR1. Formerly PR5 now PR4, formerly PR4 now PR3.

[steveb]

Without dates you can't make sensible comments on this topic. The original post seems to imply new pages, and if they were created after April 15 they will have PR0 like every page. If they are year old pages that changed to PR0 from something else, then that is different. If they never showed pagerank, then there is nothing to talk about.

[g1smd]

As I would hate for someone to arrive at my site on the links page, and then surf right on out again without viewing any other site content, I always put <meta name="robots" content="noindex,follow"> on all dedicated links pages. These pages usually have about 5 to 15 links to other related sites, and are meant to be a final exit point for use after the visitor has browsed my site.

As I also wouldn't like some kid doing a search for "nice forms to play around with" on sites, I also put this tag on any pages that contain forms that send email, and on all of the target pages that show after the form has processed. So, only "real content" pages are exposed for indexing.

All the sites that I have done this on rank well, and I noticed that the pages still show toolbar PR even with noindex on them.

[djgreg]

Maybe we will see guestbooks getting PR0 at last. I am still annoyed of all those guestbook spammers receiving top positions with 300+ guestbook entries