3 Reasons Why Digital Point’s PageRank Got Penalised
I have just been looking at what keywords people have been typing in to find this blog and someone searched for:
“digital point forum pr has been reduced”
So I’m guessing this searcher is curious to know why Digital Point Solutions and Digital Point Forums have both had their PageRank scores dramatically reduced:
- www.digitalpoint.com is down from a PR 7/10 to a PR 4/10
- forums.digitalpoint.com is down from a PR 6/10 to a PR 4/10
Here are 3 good reasons why Google might have spanked their PageRank scores.
1. The buying and selling of signature links amongst its users – Buying and selling links that pass PageRank is against the guidelines, this alone could warrant a PR penalty.
2. The link sales forum – Plenty of guideline breaking links get sold in that forum every day, again this could warrant a penalty.
3. DP COOP – The Digital Point Coop link exchange network is still active and spamming Google’s search results to this day.
And that’s just for starters, I’m sure if I looked into it further I could find a few more.
Posted in Search Engine News By David Eaves a UK search engine optimisation specialist.
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July 20th, 2009 13 Comments
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July 21st, 2009 at 6:21 am
Good points mentioned. Coop has always been a reason for DP’s downgrade in rankings. Btw yep the Business section with Link Sales in it can be a big reason which is not supported by Google.
July 21st, 2009 at 2:45 pm
I was just having this debate with a colleague yesterday. I am of the opinion that buying/selling links is a bad SEO practice that can get you penalized, and he was saying the opposite.
Looks like I was right…
July 21st, 2009 at 4:29 pm
I was wondering this myself, but I think the buying/selling of links in signatures is a big deal to Google, so that would be where I’d place my bet.
July 22nd, 2009 at 3:16 pm
I think it is important to always follow Google guidelines when performing any online marketing. Too much to gamble especially if a website is your livelihood.
September 8th, 2009 at 10:53 pm
Wow – I knew DP did this since I am a member of the forum – and there were many ppl predicting that this would come to pass…sure enough, it did.
I was under the assumption that DP wasn’t penalized and still left sig links there. I’ll still be going back there though, in my opinion, it’s a great site to learn from others.
October 9th, 2009 at 6:09 pm
Hello ,
DP is having much problems with google ,starting with blocking their Adsense account and then return it back , and PG drop , and SEPRS changes .
I hope they became fine .
Thanks .
November 7th, 2009 at 5:24 am
even though they only have a pagerank 4, digital point forums pages are coming top for many search results for webmasters related stuffs !
December 22nd, 2009 at 11:47 am
that’s correct, digital point rank has got down, they have just allow two links free, but before they were allowing 4 links for free. i completely agree that it’s the reason it’s page ranks dropped. SEO COMPANY UK
January 12th, 2010 at 11:29 am
I don’t actually really get the idea of buying and selling of signature links whom when search engine caught you, you’ll get penalized because of it. One thing is, your page rank will suffer to what you have done.
March 26th, 2010 at 8:12 am
I don’t actually really get the idea of buying and selling of signature links whom when search engine caught you, you’ll get penalized because of it. One thing is, your page rank will suffer to what you have done.
April 12th, 2010 at 8:01 pm
pr doesnt matter it’s traffic that matter
May 27th, 2010 at 11:21 am
LOL. Typical Google scaremongering tactics at work here. A drop in toolbar PR means nothing in this case. Check the real SEO metrics (e.g MozRank, Page Strength, ACR, and Domain Authority scores) and you’ll see the DigitalPoint is as strong as ever.
Don’t fall for the PR myth.
July 17th, 2010 at 12:12 pm
But the ranking is high when search for the keywords…