PR reset to 0??

What would cause that to happen? I've been blogging along, minding my own business, and wham, my 4 PR shows up as zero.

What the heck happened?

 

It's fine, it happens to most people before PR updates it'll reset back or go higher before the month is over. Mine's been 0 for like three weeks.

 

just to expand on "it happens to most people":

before updates, it is possible for your PR to revert back to it's last value. Your site is just over 6 months old, so I'm pretty sure that value is zero.

You haven't been banned or anything. I did notice something you should fix, but is not affecting the PR.

If you check your pages indexed on Google, http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site:www.seobrien.com that isn't the greatest result to have.

If you open up the omitted results, you'll see that the majority are sup results. Even though your content is unique, your title and meta description are the same for every page. That's not good. You should make the title and description for each page as unique as possible.

 

sup results?
The site is powered by blogger so each page should have a unique title which I've confirmed, save for Label pages, each page has a unique title.
http://www.seobrien.com/2007/03/better-affiliate-model.html
http://www.seobrien.com/
... now I'm even more lost.

 

That would not be my definition of "unique".

The majority of your pages have this title:
SEO'Brien - Search optimization and online marketing blog

and the majority have this description:
Drive revenue while reaching targeted customers and brand objectives through advanced interactive marketing concepts, search engine optimization techniques, ...

Now lets look at the title of the example you gave:
SEO'Brien: A Better Affiliate Model? - Search optimization and online marketing blog

67% of that title is IDENTICAL to your "default" title.

and sup = supplemental result.

 

That was only temporary. Google might preparing for the next update.

 

PR update is around the corner. They do some snapshot kind of thing before update, must have caused that. I don't think there is anything to worry.

 

u might have lost backlinks that u had or google is dancing it will back soon

 

It happens. It once happened to me as well. I am back to Pr 5 though lol

 

Awesome, thanks David
I suppose I'm wrestling with now to change that now. Blogger's titles are autogenerated and I can't figure out how to change them on Label pages. Any ideas?

 

happy to help. you've got a quality blog there.

I'm actually not familiar with the Blogger software, but I'm assuming the title and metas are pulled from a variable.

It should be just a matter of populating that variable with the info you want. There are a couple of ways to go about that, but need to know exactly how it works. Is it run with php?

 

Might also want to see if Blogger has any plugins that can help automate title, meta descriptions and meta keywords. I know WordPress has plugins to do so.

 

It's normal... you just wait for the update and continue get more quality inbound links...

 

Thanks again, I'm pretty passionate about this business, I hope it comes through there.

It doesn't strike me as PHP but I'm not even a novice with scripting
Blogger dynamically creates page titles with this:
<title><$BlogPageTitle$> - Search optimization and online marketing blog</title>

I've manually changed the end of that to always include that content (though I've just heard that's probably a bad idea...?)

BlogPageTitle is the dynamic content that comes from the title of a blog post. The label pages don't have a post title so it leaves that out (as best I can tell) causing them to be identical.