Hey guys... am a newbie and love the board. Last google-dance I was in hogg heaven. I had a PR of 5 for my main page and a PR of 4 on all sub pages (about 7 or 8 in total). After this latest run through, I ended up with a PR 0 on all of my pages! The only change I made to most of these pages is that I eliminated keyword spamming. I though that would make me improve not go down! I also interlink my pages with links at the bottom... I guess that is bad but I have always done this and had 4's and 5's. Can someone look at my page http://www.power-battery.com.au and tell me what I could be doing wrong. I cant believe I could have dropped so far! Also, is there a tutorial or site anyone knows that has the basic info for google optimization? Thanks from the newbie!!! Bubba
We have had a look at your site, we think that you never actually had PR5 it was most likely a mistake, it happens often. We had a new blog with a pr 7 for a little while, then it dropped off. You have about 18 poor quality inbound links. There is also no history of you ever having a PR5. IMO page ranks doesnt matter too much any way.
My work colleague said this Some reasons for loss of PR 1. MAIN REASON - Google error. We lost our PR on Addicts 2 updates ago (approx 5 months). At last update (about 1 month ago) it came back as PR3. Little changed either time this was 99% sure a mistake. I think in his case the 5 was probably the mistake as he has only 18 inbound links most of which are from crappy sites such as e-zines. 2. Site de-indexed, in this case doesnt seem to have happened. 3. Lack of change of content. Static sites get demoted frequently but rarely from 5 down to 0. I have a feeling that the 5 was a MISTAKE. It is very likely he was getting incorrect data from one of the data hubs. It is possible to check "history" of PR values http://www.naturalsearchblog.com/archives/2004/07/24/looking-up-historical-pagerank-scores/
Well I guess this is what happend to my site at: http:www.industryfinest.com On sunday the Pagerank changed from a pr3 -to- pr4 with lots of pr3 pages and today 10/4/2008 just 5 days later it dropped back down to pr3!!!!