Google PR Update - The Death of PR Site Sales?

[ptaylor]

For any of you that follow Google PageRank you know that Google did an update last week. However, it appears that Google has made a game changing policy update. If you scan all expired domains through pending deletes nearly 100% are PR 0 domains. WTF!!! Of my 500 or so PR domains bought off the drop nearly all went to PR 0. However, for those PR sites that were bought off the drop but had "real" sites on them before the update, the PR seems to have hung in there. Is this is a new policy of Google to set all parked pages to PR 0 (from expiration to pending delete). How will this effect auction sales for companies like Namejet, GoDaddy, Snapnames…..etc?

[nuco]

PR domains Aftermarket is Dead for now...i dont know why....sales have gone to 0 ... at-least for the private sales and sellers like me.... it is because....ppl believe june 3 update was a minor update and ppl think there is a major update coming end of this month i believe that is a myth .....as far as Pr doamins dropping to 0 for all parked pages thats not true still domains parked gained PR back


I believe this is very Temp sales ..will increase and be back to normal from july ...or as ppl beleieve if a Major Pr update happens....for now ppl are in mind set there was a minor PR update and are waiting for major PR update on july

[JB Lions]

Parked pages should be zero, that just makes sense.

[fab]

Parked pages should be zero, that just makes sense.

That may be true, but lots of sites with content have pr0 as well.

[Dirty SEO]

If G sees there's a new owner, PR is supposed to go to zero. Simple as that. There are ways around this, but it takes some effort.

[fab]

They have all sorts of penalties to the best of my knowledge.
1. Non-original content,
2. Link schemes, etc.

[JB Lions]

That may be true, but lots of sites with content have pr0 as well.

They just might be new, penalized or new/old without any links in. There are sites that Google consider thin or thin affiliate sites and parked pages are worse than that. Just usually a page with links. You have some parked pages that have some kind of content but from what I've seen, kinda skimpy and not original. Few years ago a Google Quality Rater Guidelines leaked (debate whether they did it themselves or not) and

"In the document, Google also describes the different types of spam found online. In their list: pay-per-click pages, JavaScript redirects, parked domains, keyword stuffing, “thin affiliates,” “100% frame,” hidden text/ hidden links, and “sneaky redirects.”

One place you can read it - http://www.scribd.com/doc/2299019/Go...ter-Guidelines

So you might have picked up a domain that in the past actually was some sort of decent site, had some links in etc, had some PR but things change and if it becomes nothing but a parked page, it'll get zapped sooner or later, at least PR wise and a lot of times the SERPS as well.

[Banned: adonivideo]

PR is determined by one thing, who is linking to the site and what the link says, so if you get a mention say on a PR10 site, bang, you made it big. You can have all the content in the world and if no PR sites are linking, you will not have PR.

[affordableweb]

I disagree that a domain should go to PR0 when it is sold. if a domain expires thats different but selling a business and paying a penalty for it is un American.