What causes your page rank to drop

My site has fallen from pr3 to pr2, l still get the same amount of traffic about 160 visitors a day from many sources inc 150 from search engines per month

 

Traffic has nothing to do with PR. Pr is based on the amount of links you have and the PR from those sites. If you lost links for whatever reason or the links pointing to your site loses PR, that will affect your PR.

Links pointing to your site may not be calculated in your PR if Google thinks they were paid link or are not relevant to your niche.

 

thanks for that l will have to build more

 

It is not just linking factor. It is about how the website is positioned compared to others in the same content area.

 

Google just updated PR a few days ago. Mine all dropped as well. Such is life with Big G.

 

Please explain that to me in relations to PR. If you are talking about the SERPs, I understand maybe what you are saying and it would not apply to the op's question. However, if you are talking about PR, I would be interested in how positioning applies to PR.

 

Also many outbound links to low quality sites may affect your site rankings.

 

Last PR update has affected many sites, not many seem to have risen, quite a few have dropped again

 

hmmmmmmmm, just don't worry about it, just build more quality backlinks for your page.

 

Perhaps some of your links have been removed or your site has too many outbound links, that's why your page drop has dropped...

 

PR is based on backlinks.

 

if u need some help on backlinks, i have a guide under e resources section in my sig.

enjjoy

 

loosing backlinks makes your PR to decrease.try to get permanent backlinks from high ranked websites.I can help you with that if you are interested.(Signature)

 

Try to get more back links with good and relevant websites. Search Engine gives more importance to quality content, keyword placement in your content and good back links .

 

I should say that my site is doing well. So I'll just continue working on it to get more improvements soon.

 

yep, link building is key, it is the primary factor affecting SERPS listings and PR

 

I think the quality of links are affecting the PR Drop but don't worry. PR isn't really weighed much.

 

PR is just useless unless you are selling any links on your site.Keep building good backlinks (oneway backlinks) and it will rise in next update.

 

PR of a Website upto what extent it will support the website

 

Thanks for all that information l will work on it, as l run my main site as a directory l need to back link to other high PR directorys