Just this morning it seems like my site gone from PR5 to PR1 and when I load the page up manually I get a grey bar! Can anyone spread any light on this?
My site also...i think google has change its algo.. I think PR is gone and google repalace it with another..
If toolbar pagerank goes, I'm ditching the google toolbar and just keeping SEOInc's toolbar. You can use the search query box and choose between several engines to run the search on plus you can click 'get data' and it looks up number of links in goog and yahoo and msn and aol and pages cached in goog and listing in dmoz. Pretty much what you want to know from an seo perspective.
There is absolutely no reason to believe this. Many of us don't think PR has not had anything to do with SERPs for a long time now.
Google's definately being doing some strange things lately. It was just yesterday that I couldn't get a cache of pages. And did we say that the era of having a Google cache was over. Is it just a coincidence that merely a day later, the Google PR reporting falls over? I think not! Now of course no one knows, but we do have caches of pages back. I consider that in a few days we will have the Google PR back. Thats my guess, which is just as much good as the conspiracy theories of Google PR being gone forever or replaced by something else.
ok - i think this is another act by google to stop people buying text links based on pr, which in turn will make it fairer on the rest of us that cant afford to buy links.
Honestly, when was the last time your grandparents said "Woah this site has a PR6, it's a good site!"? I know my grandparents haven't. Sure, PageRank is known by all of us geeks. Heck, even some non-geeks know about it. I don't think it's it's the biggest marketing tool, or even closest to the biggest. PageRank is an indicator of the number of backlinks you have. If you have a PR8 and all of your backlinks have the anchor text of your keyword, you're going to have good rankings for that keyword. If you want to get a link, it's better to get a link from a PR8 site than it is a PR2 site -- that is, assuming you can get a) anchor text, b) relevancy, c) little outbound links on the PR8 page, and d) confirmation that the PR is valid (ie. it's been built up over years). Link popularity is ultimately something Google takes into consideration. Whether or not you consider link popularity and PageRank being sister and brother is your choice.