I have done research on this, but didn't find much; if there are other threads, please forward me to them. I have a domain that has been indexed for 10 months. 4 months ago I started expanding content per direction of a marketing firm that has been doing work for me. I have also added many keyword backlinks on relevant sites (google up to ~30, MSN ~13K). I do have SERP in google, although only in the top 30 for a 5 word exact phrase. I know it means nothing to google, but MSN has me listed for 5 shorter keywords, even #1 for a couple. What is bothering me is that my PR at the last update was 3, mainly from forum signatures. Now the PR has dropped to 0. The only item I can think of it that I parked a few domains to the domain in question. I have since moved them elsewhere and initiated google to pull them from the index (robots.txt, meta, contacted them remove content instruction). Any thoughts on this one? Thanks for the help...
One theory is that google is not counting forum backlinks as strongly as they once were, so if that is where most of your bl's were coming from, then it would help to explain the drop.
No, the parked site in questions had no PR value, just a few pages indexed. It was used for my template store for about a year. I decided to roll the template store into another site and just parked the unused domain at the root at the site it was added to. Hope that makes sense...