Backlinks dropped, but PR raised!

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by emadness, Oct 25, 2006.

  1. #1
    Hello,

    I used to have around 1,300 backlinks and PR4, after the recent update, my PR is now 5 and backlinks dropped to 10!! yes 10 backlinks (used to be 1,300) ..

    I get the same amount of traffic, no change, so any idea what happened? ..
     
    emadness, Oct 25, 2006 IP
  2. Rushh

    Rushh Well-Known Member

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    The backlinks might have decreased after the snapshot period . For example if you had all the backlinks (1300 )in place till July last week (of 2006 )and remove all of them soon after that, you will still have the PR which was calculated with the 1300 backlinks.

    As the Toolbar PR is not live and is just a value for the past.

    P.S - The current toolbar PageRank reflects the PR from July nothing after that.
     
    Rushh, Oct 25, 2006 IP
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    infonote Well-Known Member

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    Use Yahoo to check backlinks as Google only provides a sample.
     
    infonote, Oct 25, 2006 IP
  4. Mong

    Mong ↓↘→ horsePower

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    Yahoo Site Explorer is more reliable than Google backlinks :)
     
    Mong, Oct 25, 2006 IP