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.
I'm here to set the record straight. Google PR IS a major part of your rankings. HOWEVER, the way everyone here uses the term (99% of the time) is in reference to the VISIBLE Google PR value found in their toolbar. This is a POOR measure of PR folks and should not be used in ANY discussion about rankings or loss. What we know: Google Visible Green Toolbar is updated quarterly. The information in the toolbar is not only old, but it's only snapshot of the overall health of a web site. Basically it's a loose indicator of the value of the incoming links to that particular web site. But even then it's inaccurate. You do'nt want to even base links (those you acquire) solely on this value. Case in point. I have a web site, 60 Yahoo! back links recorded, more in Webmasters. There are nothing but junky (but related) links. The links are PR3 or less (ALL OF THEM), HOWEVER, what we see is a PR 5 for the web site that is slightly more than a year.