My main site in my signature has ALWAYS been 5/10. Site is 10 years old (almost) and it's been in DMOZ and other directories for years. I have optimized it and SEO'd it to death (or to best of my ability). I now see it has DROPPED to 4/10 and I always have to come back here and ask the ubiquitous question "why". Did the idjits at Big G do something or penalize me? Or? I really don't undertand all this stuff to a "T"....however your insights would be appreciated: #1. Am I to be concerned with PR? And it it necessarily anything to be worrried about? #2. Can anyone recommend a good Page Rank checking tool?
Do not worry about PR for now. Google has done a recent PR rollback of all site since the update last June. Just make sure your Serps are doing okay in GWT. When your rankings for keyword searches is when you really get penalized.
Appreciate this info bravoman. Can you tell me what GWT means? Btw, when I type in specific search terms for a majority of the keywords many of my pages relate to, a majority of them come up as on the first set of serps and many of them at the very top of page #1....so am not complaining in that area. It just ticks me off seeing how engines have the authority to "roll back" site rankings for whatever explanation. Is there a decent tool around the web to enter our URLs to see what PR they are? THANKS again..........
Dinrock, GWT means Google Webmaster Tools and it is a very helpful analytic (only from Google) where you get your stats, average number placement, etc, however some believe it not to be accurate because it does not include the other search engines. I don't care, because the majority of people use Google anyway and the other search engines are far inferior. I do not have any recommendation for a tool to check PR. PR by Google is consistently updated, however, the PR tool bars are not. This is an area of debate of the supremacy of Google and the PR tool bars. At this moment and consideration I would not worry about PR. I would be concerned with your relevancy and stats in the Serps.