My 1 year old site with a PR2 started ranking on Google on 6th position for the main "keywords" and second page for 3-5 relevant important "keywords" for the month of JANUARY & FEBRUARY. On March 1st the site dropped -60 for all the "keywords" then a few days later the PR increased from PR2 to PR3. For the last 24 days the site comes back to 40th - 50th place and then it goes back to 70th place, its like it tries to come back and then maybe a filter brings it back to the panelized 70th spot. If anyone has any Ideas or has gone through this please help with some advice. I think it is a Google penalty if it is how long will I be in this Hell hole? The site was ranking for longer "keywords" that I was not targeting but after this I lost all my "keyword" ranking and I have 0 visits from google.
Kinda what happened to me, but without any pr. I had just updated my site and all my new content was on the first and second pages of Google. Then a few days later after I had started bragging they dropped to the 30th positions. I had to work on my SEO for each page, now I'm doing pretty good in the searches.
YES! Remove google toolbar and never look at page rank again. Its candy for the eyes. Relevance is far more important than PR