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There last few days it was a bit curious for what happened around the internet. A lot of websites losing Page Rank, people getting mad or just laughing about this, but everybody was annoyed about this. And I can understand why. In the end you worked hard to have your site as popular as possible and in the end you get yourself penalized.
Anyway, I was not penalized and I am happy about it. Or maybe I should have had PR 5 and I have been penalized to PR4 again 
who knows. Just joking…
The fact is that the PR is not a very important thing, even if you get some traffic increase because of the fact that it gets into the algorithm that is used to calculate the position in SERP. So indeed, if you have a higher PR, you rank better but it is not something that could take you on the first page from the 5th. No way, maybe you win a position or two but not much than this. Anyway, as far as I know, even the ads value is higher on a site with a higher PR, in the end you have a better considered website selling ads, so it is not the same like when selling ads on a low importance site.
My Christian site was not penalized, I am happy about it. It may be because I don’t sell links, if this is the real reason behind the penalties. I try to make my site grow and earn money on a natural way, even if it is not always the most productive way of doing it. Selling links used to be a good way to earn money from your website, but not anymore. Or at least that is what is going around these days. I wonder what opinion a web directory owner would have.
If you have a web directory and your main way of making money with it is by selling links, how would you react about this penalties? It is a personal curiosity since I don’t operate web directories, I have not any and not the intention of having any on the short term.
The interesting part of this is the fact that the only reason or at least the main one, for entering a payed web directory would have been the PR value of that directory. When the PR went down, all web directories had to suffer since it hit them hard. I will have to ask somebody that operates such a directory.
