Comments on: That little Green Bar - Part 2. http://www.blog.cantufind.com/2008/03/30/that-little-green-bar-part-2/ The Directory that Reviews its Websites for Quality and Safety! Thu, 28 Aug 2008 05:39:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Dan http://www.blog.cantufind.com/2008/03/30/that-little-green-bar-part-2/#comment-12 Dan Tue, 01 Apr 2008 02:08:22 +0000 http://www.blog.cantufind.com/2008/03/30/that-little-green-bar-part-2/#comment-12 Your point regarding the PR0 - 10, is a good example, and most people would go for the PR10 as you have suggested. However, I do not think the reasoning is as cut and dry as just "the perception". Though it is close to the mark. How does one get a PR like that? Authoritative links? High volume links? If it is manipulated then the methods employed to gain that value would also be driving SERP ranking and traffic. Which in turn means that PR10 directory is certainly higher in value because it has higher traffic and higher ranking than its peers. So, by looking at the PR, interested parties essentially get a "snapshot" of how well promoted the directory is. Some of the most recognised directories, who have tens of thousands of links, still drive significant traffic despite currently being PR penalised. So for them, whilst the PR perception was there initially, they are still delivering significant traffic without it, because the methods they employed to gain that PR also affected their SERP ranking and traffic levels. The PR is gone but the SERPs and traffic remain. Is PR useless? In terms of defining the value of a site I would say it is completely flawed. Because penalties aren't delivered evenly, it skews the value of PR and it is difficult to ascertain whether a site has a natural or manipulated PR without doing some digging. Since PR is designed to give you an instant result on how Google views the importance of a particular page I think it is indeed useless. It doesn't perform its purpose. It fails dismally. In terms of marketing, PR works. It is easier for people to sell when they have a stronger PR, if what they are selling is link value. As per your "psychological test" people subconciously have greater trust in a higher PR page because they believe Google has higher trust in that page. It makes sense. From the marketing point of view (not the buyer but the seller) Google's PR penalties backfired on them, because there are more people engaging in paid text link buying/selling than ever before, many of them underground, but many more above ground doing it out in the open to far greater magnitude. They weren't penalised so they think the sites that were, did something else wrong. So they continue to sell PR as a value. I think its pretty obvious that PR selling/marketing absolutely works and the majority of webmasters who sell advertising still engage in it. Heck even Google advertises PR-selling websites in its adsense blocks - which speaks volumes don't you think? Your point regarding the PR0 - 10, is a good example, and most people would go for the PR10 as you have suggested. However, I do not think the reasoning is as cut and dry as just “the perception”. Though it is close to the mark.

How does one get a PR like that? Authoritative links? High volume links?

If it is manipulated then the methods employed to gain that value would also be driving SERP ranking and traffic. Which in turn means that PR10 directory is certainly higher in value because it has higher traffic and higher ranking than its peers.

So, by looking at the PR, interested parties essentially get a “snapshot” of how well promoted the directory is. Some of the most recognised directories, who have tens of thousands of links, still drive significant traffic despite currently being PR penalised. So for them, whilst the PR perception was there initially, they are still delivering significant traffic without it, because the methods they employed to gain that PR also affected their SERP ranking and traffic levels. The PR is gone but the SERPs and traffic remain.

Is PR useless? In terms of defining the value of a site I would say it is completely flawed. Because penalties aren’t delivered evenly, it skews the value of PR and it is difficult to ascertain whether a site has a natural or manipulated PR without doing some digging. Since PR is designed to give you an instant result on how Google views the importance of a particular page I think it is indeed useless. It doesn’t perform its purpose. It fails dismally.

In terms of marketing, PR works. It is easier for people to sell when they have a stronger PR, if what they are selling is link value. As per your “psychological test” people subconciously have greater trust in a higher PR page because they believe Google has higher trust in that page. It makes sense.

From the marketing point of view (not the buyer but the seller) Google’s PR penalties backfired on them, because there are more people engaging in paid text link buying/selling than ever before, many of them underground, but many more above ground doing it out in the open to far greater magnitude. They weren’t penalised so they think the sites that were, did something else wrong. So they continue to sell PR as a value.

I think its pretty obvious that PR selling/marketing absolutely works and the majority of webmasters who sell advertising still engage in it. Heck even Google advertises PR-selling websites in its adsense blocks - which speaks volumes don’t you think?

]]> By: GDI http://www.blog.cantufind.com/2008/03/30/that-little-green-bar-part-2/#comment-11 GDI Mon, 31 Mar 2008 19:33:28 +0000 http://www.blog.cantufind.com/2008/03/30/that-little-green-bar-part-2/#comment-11 Hi. Thanks for this article, its great, I also read the Psychology of the Little Green Bar and it was great too, I am into SEO, and Affiliate marketing like Global Domain International, once I tried buying links but it was a short life success. note : I am GDI on DP ;) Hi.
Thanks for this article, its great, I also read the Psychology of the Little Green Bar and it was great too, I am into SEO, and Affiliate marketing like Global Domain International, once I tried buying links but it was a short life success.

note : I am GDI on DP ;)

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