Three days ago my forum had about 23,000 pages indexed, it has under 15,000 now from yesterday. Three days ago the forum was a PR0 and today it's a PR2 for no reason.... Honestly I'd rather have more pages indexed than a higher PR because I get better traffic from that - anyone else see changes like this? forum link in sig btw if anyone wanted to know.
It is defo a weird combination. I can see your reasoning for the more pages. PS - what is pagerank? Is not that little green bogey flicked at your screen every morning? Some are bigger and some are smaller!
PR is a Page Rank not a Site Rank, so the other Page's should not affect it IMO, look at DP it has 975,00 pages indexed and it's homepage is PR 6 or something like that
Higher rank means, Google crawls your site more often, and indexed more pages from your site. The reason why Google dropped pages, is because those pages have no page ranks or links to them.
This happened to me as well I went from having 164 pages indexed to 85, I'm still trying to figure out why this happens.
yeah thats how i found out, then i went on a few PR checkers to see if it was true no...PR used to do with the amount of quality backlinks you have, nothing to do with how many pages are indexed and google won't just drop a new page from getting indexed because it doesn't have any links to them, it has internal links from the site which also help - but anyway, indexed pages and PR have nothing to do with each other - thats why its weird
For me, the Back links in webmaster tools are gone from thousands to Zero. Number of index pages are decreased. I think you are not alone
i didnt think i was alone lol, my forum's SERPS for a few keywords went from position 1 to like 12 which is really really really annoying