For those who still care, it seems the visibible PR has been updated.
I see a few changes here
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Can’t see any major changes myself. I wonder why they even bother now.
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yeah i noticed a lot of my newly developed domains are getting some PR values now. I wonder why they even bother updating PR anymore???
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Well Bathhouse Blues just went down to a PR3 from a PR4 
I guess that is what happens when you sell hardlinks. Oh well.
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[QUOTE=terrytowel;87155]Well Bathhouse Blues just went down to a PR3 from a PR4
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But good news! Gay Bathhouse Porn has gone up! From a PR2 to a PR3! WOW! Maybe I’ll have to sell 2 PR3 hardlinks as a package, instead of 1 PR4 Hardlink,
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well, this is pretty valuable for a new blogger like myself (8 months or so). having a pr of ‘zero’ was making it seem like my site was lacking something and wasn’t credible. i know not many people base their decisions on google’s pr, but still, it’s something we all still look at and take into consideration when it comes to link trades. my new blog went from PR0 to PR3 
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My year-old blog had gone to 2, now I see it’s back at 1. Should I be alarmed? Or just depressed?
A few months ago I deleted a huge number of posts – almost half of what I had posted – and I wonder if that’s the reason…
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[QUOTE=RobRushmore;87375]My year-old blog had gone to 2, now I see it’s back at 1. Should I be alarmed? Or just depressed?
A few months ago I deleted a huge number of posts – almost half of what I had posted – and I wonder if that’s the reason…[/QUOTE]
Have you lost or increased in traffic? That’s what matters the most.
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No, Bjorn, I haven’t really lost traffic but it hasn’t been increasing either, which has been a source of big concern for me. On the other hand, I can’t say that deleting the posts coincides with the leveling off. The blog had shown slow but steady growth during the first eight months or so of the year, then – I think after getting listed on more link directories, like A1 Galleries – the blog began getting roughly 1000 unique visitors/day. Since then, except for days here and there where it spiked up, it’s been at around that number. As I said, it seemed to hit that number around August, and I think I deleted those posts sometime in October, so there may be no correlation.
BTW, the deleted posts were not sponsor content. They were (or the vast majority were) non-nude photos of hot guys that I’d found on other blogs and forums. I had been doing posts with them from the beginning, but then read here about the issues concerning use of them. I had to think about it for a long time but became convinced I should get rid of them when someone here pointed out the possibility of getting accused of using photos of underage models without having proof of their age. Even though I wasn’t big on using photos of twinks and really young guys and 99.9% of the photos were non-nude, the slight chance of that happening convinced me that, out of an abundance of caution, I should remove those posts. At that point I had done about 2000 posts, and what I deleted amounted to about half of that.
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[QUOTE=RobRushmore;87405]No, Bjorn, I haven’t really lost traffic but it hasn’t been increasing either, which has been a source of big concern for me. On the other hand, I can’t say that deleting the posts coincides with the leveling off. The blog had shown slow but steady growth during the first eight months or so of the year, then – I think after getting listed on more link directories, like A1 Galleries – the blog began getting roughly 1000 unique visitors/day. Since then, except for days here and there where it spiked up, it’s been at around that number. As I said, it seemed to hit that number around August, and I think I deleted those posts sometime in October, so there may be no correlation.
BTW, the deleted posts were not sponsor content. They were (or the vast majority were) non-nude photos of hot guys that I’d found on other blogs and forums. I had been doing posts with them from the beginning, but then read here about the issues concerning use of them. I had to think about it for a long time but became convinced I should get rid of them when someone here pointed out the possibility of getting accused of using photos of underage models without having proof of their age. Even though I wasn’t big on using photos of twinks and really young guys and 99.9% of the photos were non-nude, the slight chance of that happening convinced me that, out of an abundance of caution, I should remove those posts. At that point I had done about 2000 posts, and what I deleted amounted to about half of that.[/QUOTE]
Removing posts would definitely have a negative effect. The more pages you have on a site, the more traffic you (might) get, depending of course on what you have on the pages, if its unique etc. In your case you might have had mainly Google Image traffic on them. But it sounds like you did a sensible thing. Earning money on adult content means you want to be clean and have nothing that come back and bite you in the ass. Adult on its own is enough to attract unwanted attention.
But really, traffic is the main concern. GayDemon.com used to be PR5 but went down to PR4 2 years ago. Yet in the same 2 years traffic has been up by huge amounts, then down by lots and then back up again to record highs… Which tells me that it’s a very very wide spread on what sites have a certain PR.
What you describe about hitting a wall, or level / not increasing in traffic sounds quite familiar. New sites seem to be very hard to get going past a certain point, I presume that’s also why people create several sites. To grow past that point takes time. Your site needs age which in turn gives you trust from Google, plus with age comes a build up of natural links, people bookmark the site etc. Once upon a time I think you could entirely use Google and hope to get everything by playing the “Google game”. I did myself exactly that 10 years ago, but I don’t think that’s a reliable way anymore. At least not past a certain point.
Out of the 10 sites I’ve created the last few years probably only 3 have really taken off and gone past that point. The rest just sits there and I can understand why, they are not that great and if I were Google or a Surfer for that matter I wouldn’t like them either. As Google says, you need to build up original good content that makes people come back to your site. Good content = Bookmarkers = More RELIABLE Traffic.
The real conundrum is of course what’s good content, and how do you create it.
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Wow, thanks for that feedback, Bjorn! A lot to think about there. I certainly don’t intend to give up on the blog, but perhaps it’s time I also start some other blogs, in smaller niches.
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I think if you want more traffic to send to sponsors, then yes. You would probably need to start a couple of more blogs. It’s the only way to gain more traffic fast (and free). Simply becuase the traffic sources that you can make a difference on yoruself, i.e. link lists, toplists, link trades etc can easily be redone for each site and the amount of traffic multiplied by however many sites you have.
Just don’t go down the route of automated blogs, they are worse than spam and won’t ever get you any Google traffic no matter how old they are.
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Just don’t go down the route of automated blogs, they are worse than spam and won’t ever get you any Google traffic no matter how old they are.
Thanks for pointing that out, Bjorn. I def. won’t do that.
And yes my goal is all about getting more traffic to send to sponsors (and, of course, making money from that).
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Thanks also for pointing out those things I can do with new blogs that are in my control – hadn’t thought of that!
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PR is way too overrated, and I think it’s a useless parameter these days. I’m focusing on boosting my ranking and site traffic instead.