Interesting Three of my newer sites, some only a few months old with little linkage have gone in at page rank 3 and 2. However, my more established sites appear to have dropped a ranking (from 4 to 3). Perhaps the PR Algo has changed in a way, perhaps giving a higher PR to newer sites, then will level out after the next update?
Sure, They'll level out in next update. I've seen this a lot. Most of my sites went up to 3/4 in the first update after creation and then settles down to 2/3 later. Now a few of the settled one's see improvement.
Is the PR update still going on? Because one of my site which had good backlinks got PR0 compared to my other site which has less backlinks getting PR2
Interesting example is copyblogger. It went from PR6 to PR4 and now it's up to PR7 and it all happened within about a week or two. My own blog went from PR0 to PR4. That was a nice surprise.
with one of my major websites the PR has actually gone UP. Although I've done a lot of link building. I think what was critical though was that I did a lot of deep linking into that website and also generated lots of quality content for it.
check out this my site http://yourcars.vox.com/! I made this blog about a week after the last update and I didn't submit nor do link building to that site but it got PR 3! If you check the backlinks from yahoo you'll see that it has a links on social bookmarkings related sites! I think the Algo would be focus on social bookmarkings or the way of SMO!? what you think?
PageRank is just for link exchanging peoples and nothing more in that...Why you all worry, if you know that there is nothing to do with search engine rankings...
my opinion is the alogorihtm has not changes they have only taken a -1 to sites above pr5 for example site that was PR 6 is now PR 5 if by using the exsiting alogorihtm they did not increase its PR. Site that was PR7 is now PR 5 because by using the old alogorihtm they dropped one spot due to bad SEO, link farm etc etc and another -1 was added. Hince PR 0 sites are up in PR now due to the standard alogorihtm in action. and Big sites that were PR 9 have dropped -1 PR to PR 8. Hope that made sense, and this is only my guess. any thoughts?
Youtube is PR 8 even the homepage is PR 8. I dont know which DC you guys are looking at. Amokk, Not all sites lost PR. My site was PR 6 and still at PR 6 after the update. It all depends on the backlinks, related niche, sites linking to you etc.
I wish it would be that simple . If you read what other people say in this forum change by +-2 even 3 is common.