Early Look at PR Toolbar Update
An early look at the toolbar PR update and how directories are faring is not very positive, so far many big players have lost 1 level of page rank, here is the early list:
http://www.idk.in/ PR5 to PR4
http://www.bigweblinks.com/ PR7 to PR6
http://www.allthelook.com/ PR5 to PR4
http://www.aerospect.com/ PR5 to PR4
http://www.kwikgoblin.com/ PR6 to PR5
http://www.apahcinc.org/ PR6 to PR5
http://www.sevenseek.com/ PR6 to PR5
http://directory.v7n.com/ PR6 to PR5
http://www.danielmillions.com/ PR5 to PR4
http://www.linksjuice.com PR6 to PR5
http://www.leadingdir.com/ PR5 to PR4
http://www.linksfactory.net/ PR6 to PR5
http://www.sleekdirectory.com/ PR5 to PR4
What does this mean for directories? I don’t think it means too much, perhaps Google has updated their algorithm so it is harder for all sites to obtain a high page rank. I remember around 7 months ago everyone was saying it had seemed to get easier to get a page rank of 4 and higher so maybe Google just tweaked it back the other way. I don’t think a little loss of page rank means much for the directory industry as a whole because directory backlinks are still one of the easiest and most cost effective ones out there.