Hi, I run a personal blog which was PR5 for quite sometime. But suddenly in this PR change it become PR0, the site not banned, internal pages still hold PR. But home page PR is gone. It shows around 1100 pages of the site crawled till now but the backlink count has become 0 for some reason. (It used to be around 179 earlier) I have no idea about the reason. I tried to trace it out myself but could not find anything wrong with the blog. It is a personal blog with absolutely no scope for spamming or any black hat stuff. I am just curious to know what made PR go down directly to 0. I personally feel it is some kind of bug which made my PR0. You can check my blog here. Regards, Deep
Absolutely nothing.. as I said earlier, it is a personal blog and I don't even bother to make effort to get links but I am just curious to know how it dropped to 0 suddenly. Edit: Check number of links in one of the Google DCs here
I have had this happen with site and/or specific pages on sites during toolbar updates in the past, then when the next update comes, the pagerank comes back. I actually had a PR5 forum drop to 0 a couple days ago according to the toolbar, and it stayed that way until today. It is now back at 5. Everything about google is just erratic at best and it has been that way since around September of 2005. I look at values like PR, Indexed Pages, and backlinks on google lately for nothing more than comedic value.
mhmdkhamis - I have posted about this on Matt's blog too but havent got any reply. I just emailed about this to google too, let's see what they have to say. SportsOutlaw - Yes, I too had faced same kind of issue earlier but at that time, it never used to show backlinks as 0 and it also never used to show PR0 in most of the DCs. According to Live PR check script located here most of the datacenters are showing PR0 and only 2 of them are showing PR5. So I am kind of worried that if this continues and for some reason I loose traffic then i will be in big mess as my 75% of the traffic is from Google.
Do you experience any drop in your traffic from Google? If no, there is nothing to worry about as the toolbar PR is a backdated value
i think some thing go wrong, but really not sure. hope in next updation of PR , it will be back to 5.
hmm..approximately 300 uniques less daily...I think I will get to know exact traffic changes after monitoring for a week or so. The site was PR5 for quite sometime actually so I think if at all it was last PR value then too it has to be PR5, my site has PR0 for very less time i.e. in the period of July 2004 or so... Again, I am asking just because I am curious to know the reason for sudden drop in PR.
if you did not loose your any of your backlink , there is nothink to worry . it's temporary . i think you must check your backlink
Is google ever honestly concerned with a site's drop in PR, since it's not directly affected in it's SERPs? I'm seriously asking, I've never heard of an instance when Google answered any sort of question.
Its for my personal blog located here: http://www.whoisdeep.com Currently it shows PR5 in around 4 datacenters but in rest is is PR0
That's correct, I've got 5/10 on my FF plugin, but 0/10 when I use http://www.prchecker.info/check_page_rank.php