PR Increase == Search Results Loss

I'm very pleased to see one of my new sites go from PR0 to PR4 last night; however, a couple days ago before that happened the same site lost nearly 90 positions in rank. Page 4 down to 12.

While I'm pleased to see a nice PR bump, I think I'd prefer to have the position, and hope it's just a glitch in google algorithms during the PR update. I've noticed one other site with competing keywords also lost a lot of position, so I'm really hoping that's the case.

Curious if anyone else experienced the same?

 

Is such a massive rank loss due to a Google penalty???? Eg link farms, black hat SEO, spamming?

Also, if you've got such a good PR, then I would have thought that with the right SEO you could appear better than p4.

Good luck and hope it works out.

 

Dont worry abt position of ur site at specific keyword, and keep going on the track that leads u to high pagerank. Keep in my that google updates all site at same time when updating urs, so if u r down its mean some body at ur position. It is like game, never take it personal. Any way congrate on good pagerank.

 

I have the opposite
PR down and traffic up

Makes you wonder about the importance of PR

 

Toolbar PR is 3-6 months old (each update posts newer data, but still very outdated), so don't make too tight a correlation.

Real PR is constantly being recalculated and used all the time. If you went from a 0-4 with this update, you've probably slowly gone 0-1-2-3-4 over the past few months -- the toolbar just doesn't update that often.

 

but even if thats the case its still pretty bad that his pr went up and search rankings went down. something went wrong

 

Dont worry , its just google respidering the whole web, its temporary

 

google has just updated pr.

 

I had the same thing happen to my blog, pr went down but my serp positions are up....

 

even the toolbar just updated recently??

for the op, I'm sorry to hear that. Don't worry, just keep develop a good content and seo for your site. I'm sure your serp will come back.

 

You're not understanding this. We know his PR went up 3-6 months ago, and his rankings went down today. Those two are very unlikely unconnected.

They don't just crawl from time to time -- they crawl millions of pages daily.

Correct. When it updates, it shows numbers that are 3-6 months old. That means in March before the next updates, the toolbar will be showing 6-9 month old data, then it will get refreshed again and only be 3-6 months old.

 

I met the same issue as op.
mm

 

That is not glitch. It's a simple case of the other webmaster defeating you on your chosen keyword.

 

I think your ranking some fluctuation, continue your work, returns your SERP's.

 

I wouldn't overly worry about this. Rankings fluctuate constantly. You might have hit a mini-sandbox, where Google sorts out an algorithm shift for your particular page. Toolbar PR is a good indicator of what the relative value of your site is in terms of rankings, but not the *only* ranking factor. If you watch a set of in demand keywords, the pole position changes quite drastically, the more competitive the term, the more frequently (usually).

 

it may be temporary so dont worry wait for some days it will be back

 

My pr decrease,may be it's due to the links decrease.But i think the traffic is the most important thing for us.

 

i think you r right

 

Obviously you should be focusing on the traffic and as you targeted traffic equals Money.
Don't worry! Congrats Anyway.

CHEERS,

MG

 

Don't worry SERP's, continue your work.