Good sites taking massive PR hits

[ukplayersguide]

I've been looking at a few other casino portals that have a high PR today (just got back from my vegas holiday).

casinochoice.co.uk has fallen from a PR7 to a PR1
easymoneycasinos.comhas gone from PR7 to PR3

Have they done something badly wrong or has google changed something for these sites? It all seems rather strange.

On a positive note, having got back from my holiday i've got my first green on my toolbar! :D Woohoo!! So thanks are due to everyone here, for helping me out. :D :D :D

Unfortunately it's only a PR 2, which i thought would be much better :fuct: ( i love that smilie-had to use it) . At least the entire site is finally indexed now (thanks god). Many of the links i've exchanged aren't showing up yet, so i'm full of hope for the next update!

Apart from links from this site, i have 3 PR5 homepage unreciprocal links showing. I would have thought, that would have given me a higher ranking for that alone (PR4 maybe).

Any suggestion anyone please?

Thanks

Harvey

[leeds1]

Just keep plugging away.

Have a look in yahoo for your links (linkdomain:www.yourdomain.com) as they will show many more.

[ukplayersguide]

And another one,

dollarsgambling.com
One of the few casino PR8 sites is now a PR0 site!

[SEO_AM]

Sounds like penalties are at play within those casino sites.

[seo guy]

I edited the active links out of them, if they are banned we certainly dont want to be linking to them

[SEO_AM]

Good move. With the online gambling industry being so competitive there may be dubious SEO techniques being applied.

[laura]

Personally, I don't think they were banned. I think they bought almost all their links and either stopped paying so their link was removed from that site or the site they bought from is no longer passing PR. I didn't do to much research into this because I got bored but for example link:http://www*casinochoice*co*uk on yahoo shows at least the first 5 results as obvious paid listings and on some of those pages the link no longer exists.

[SEO_AM]

I didn't say banned. I can agree if it affected one site, but several all at the time? :huh:

[laura]

Like I was saying I was a little to bored to really look into it but 2 or 3 sites does not make several sites, it actually requires at least 4 :p . However my understanding of a Ban would be the sites no longer exist in Google however these are in and they are showing backlinks. For example www*casinochoice*co*uk shows 6,890 back links. Maybe, it's a purchased PR filter of some kind or a Casino filter.

[Peter (IMC)]

Gamble (and other) sites generally use very bad practices to gain high rankings. A commonly used practice is a network of websites that, as a group, have hardly any backlinks.

It may be the case that all sites within a network of websites are given the PR of the group and since the group has very few backlinks, the PR of the group is low.

It actually makes sense,. :)

Peter

[seokid]

There has been a lot of sites that are built just to sell PR that have been getting the boot from Google which would cause a lot of PR buyers to lose most of their PR. This has been happening quit a bit, I don't think its a buyers filter, it's a sellers filter. I'm at a loss to describe how Google could possibly be determining who is a PR seller and who is not. Maybe too little traffic with a bunch of site wide links and no rankings with quite a bit of the links being non relevant.