My site's PR went down from 3 to 1. I was trying to improve the rank and was doing directory submission. Any suggestion to improve the rank .The site is http://www.itechies.net

PR applies to a page not a site, thats the first thing to understand, PR is affected by the quality of the pages that contain the links to the pages on your site, directory pages tend not to have high PR themselves so inbound links from them don't count for much, same applies to link exchange schemes where sites have pages of link partners

If links are the currency of the web, then we need to think of them in financial terms, with things like inflation ( other web sites getting exactly the same directory links as you, making them less valuable in general because they don't help you compete any more ) and overall valuation. Washington DC loves to complain about how China's yuan is undervalued; Google decides certain links are overvalued and takes some of that value away.

Any link that's really easy to get - like a directory link - isn't worth much. If anybody can get a particular link, than having one doesn't mean your site is better than the rest, or unique, or any of the positive things Google likes. Remember, Google doesn't owe anybody traffic or rankings.

They make their money by answering peoples' questions who do web searches. You can work with them, by creating rich content that people will enjoy, or you can work against them by trying to reverse engineer their algorithm and cheat it with artificial links. It's your choice, and it doesn't have to be an either/or; you can do both. But the second type, working against Google, seems to be working less every day.

But then PageRank is really meaningless anyway. What's important is the traffic you get to your site, and that's not the same thing at all.

I am so tempted to shamelessly drop a link in response to this...come on, mods, cut me loose!

yep - so don't worry about PR, worry about traffic, thats what counts anyway, pages with PR 0 can appear in top ten google listings, inbound links from relevant pages will get you traffic and eventualy PR which does help with SERPS, but traffic is your goal not PR

Is it just me, or is it ironic that a webmaster tips and resources site owner asking for PR tips? Especially when people have been talking about how this is coming for a while.

spend some money and buy some pr6/7 link to your site.

Originally Posted by mysiteonweb

My site's PR went down from 3 to 1. I was trying to improve the rank and was doing directory submission. Any suggestion to improve the rank .The site is http://www.itechies.net

Every day I do Directory submissions Link exchange and one way link. I only chose a relevance site to link with.

Originally Posted by charlesgan

spend some money and buy some pr6/7 link to your site.

This is no longer a sure thing. If you watch the sites that are doing this you can notice that they are starting to lose PR here and there because google is changing algorithims to catch on to this.

You have to be very careful where you buy such links.

There's really nothing wrong with buying links; just don't expect them to pass on any PR. But if they're well chosen, people will click them, come to your site with great interest, and then you get to try for a conversion. If you're going to buy links, it should be for traffic, not search rank.