My site pr got down

[rithi]

Hi,

I have some sites and i am sellling paid links in my sites, some of my sites got dropped to pr0 from pr4, pr3 etc.
I dont know why it got down.
I want to know whether pr update is going on or it got pr0 because i am selling paid links at my site

Please clear my doubt

[chrisranjana.com]

Maybe because of this

Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Information about buying and selling links that pass PageRank (http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2007/12/information-about-buying-and-selling.html)

[ctabuk]

Absolutely correct - it's something that simply had to happen - bye bye toolbar pagerank:D:D:D

[Lumhierre]

It's definitely a penalty from Google. Same thing happened to a lot of major directories...Hope you get your PR back when the next update comes.

[scanmonkey]

Selling paid links has been against Googles guidlines for years and Google has blocked the ability to flow pagerank from sites that sold links. However it appears that they are now manually setting the toolbar to zero as well. It's happening a lot on blogs that are doing paid to post.

[jtracking]

well I hope google can tell that my toronto gta business directory (Toronto GTA Business Service Directory (http://www.searchgta.com)) is free, free and totally free - as it should be...

[scanmonkey]

well I hope google can tell that my toronto gta business directory (Toronto GTA Business Service Directory (http://www.searchgta.com)) is free, free and totally free - as it should be...

I wouldn't worry about it.

[funbiz]

My PR want down the last update but this time most pages go back up to normal.

[scanmonkey]

Glad to hear it!

[Himalayan]

Google update PR and Backlinks so this is due to that.

[bobchrist]

I think chrisranjana is right, google is penalizing sites those selling links because this is against their TOS.

[jboeckman]

I also feel that PR should be adusted because of link buying but when it comes down to the nuts and bolts did the changes in Google really effect anything besides what you see in the toolbar? I have seen a few of these articles that seem to think otherwise Google Directory Updated: Penalized PageRank Scores Not Visible (http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/015953.html)

What is the purpose of the links you have on your site? Maybe you should add nofollows to your paid links.

[simonbuxton132]

I have read various discussion on PR, but how important is it in that our site is zero (bad, right?)?

One of our key search terms gives us top 5 positioning. Although some searches that I feel should get us close to the top, gives us a position beyond 100 (according to Google's web master tools).