New sites got higher PR, existing droped in PR

I have noticed on my end that all my new sites that were created in the last three months have achieved high PR yet nearly all my existing websites droped a rank.

One big surprise is one of my PR5 sites that for the first time in 4 years has gone down to a PR4 and this site has PR 6 backlinks from Microsoft, Yahoo Directory and multiple DMOZ listings

BUT I did have one established site (3 years old) with a PR1 that achieved just one new backlink in the last 3 months and it went from a PR1 to a PR3

 

many sites get pr down even DP.

 

i see the same happening with my sites

dp is at pr6 now

 

so i think google definitely change the way to calculate PR. Maybe backlinks is not the main factor now

 

NO. The update will take a few days to stay stable. Thats why you see pr down.

 

my new website were created in the last two weeks,google update pr1.
tickets-beijing2008 com

 

hmm my old sites droped the new one got pr

Strange oh well

 

Well I totally agree with you that New sites got higher Page Rank while older one is droped.

I don't know how Google count it.

 

PR is not everything...

 

Why you said like that?
For many people is PR important, and i don't know why
can someone tell me about it

 

PR is not really important, i think.
i think SERP is more important.

 

A lot of sites got very high pr though they didn't deserve it.I hope the update is not finished....

 

I have noticed too that many sites PR went down, lets hope that they will bounce back. PR update is not over yet.....

 

A new site of a mine had a page land on the homepage of Digg.com. It's PR 6.

Some of my preexisting sites that were PR 4 and have tons of backlinks have fallen to PR 3.

I think Google is making the requirements for PR higher because there are a lot more sites than there were when big G first set the guidelines and because it has been so easy to get a good PR just by buying links.

 

same here, droped by 1 point

 

There are 2 know why

2 Gs, God and Google.

 

Most, many of high quality sites are degraded at leaset with -1 PR.
Perhaps new ALGO.
Some sites got + 1 PR and some got from PR0 to PR7 a kind of lottery

This woudl mean about 80% sites that was PR7 are now PR6 ...
Sites that was PR8 are PR7 (80%) ...

And sites that should be PR7 (from PR6) got again PR6, PR9 are PR8 ....

This is my "humble conclustion"

This means a new "SEO WAR" don't give up, but smile
This is not the end of the world, but it hurts :-(

 

Yeah but I bet God has to search in Google to find out!

Back to the point though; yes most of my established sites have held their own or dropped a level, almost as though Google have raised the bar by half a point or something, ie if you were PR 4.8 (say), you're ok but if you were 4.2 then you're down a level.

 

I noticed this too, big established sites loosing -1 PR, maybe Google is making it harder to get High PR as people are now manipulating it....

 

I hope so. I have a PR4 site that should be a PR5 or 6 now, and it's showing PR0 for the last day.