My blog (linked in my profile) used to have PR6. It had this for a few years, and I have no idea how it got that way - it just had PR6 without me trying to boost it! A couple of months ago, I suddenly noticed my PR had dropped to PR5. Then, about a month later, I was astonished to see I was at PR4. My Alexa ranking also dropped from somewhere in the 400k's to somewhere in the 600k's. I haven't changed anything about the way I've been blogging for the past several years. Are there new criteria for blogs that makes them different from other sites? How can I get my PR back up to where it was? Thanks in advance for any help!
there was no pr update a month ago lol, ur dreaming, u probably just lost backlinks, just build them back up, get more links, buy links, 3 way link exchanges, directory submissions, the PR update is soon so do it fast.
It's entirely possible I have the timing wrong...it just seems like about a month ago, could be 2 weeks or 6 weeks or I dunno what! Thank you for the tips. Can you tell me more about three way link exchanges? I am not familiar with that.
3 way link exchanges im going to use my sites as an example http://www.gamers-forum.com puts a link to your-site.com your-site.com puts a link to my other site www.wzjz.net thats a 3 way link exchange because we both benefit from it, only two sites gets pr passed but it helps both parties gamers-forum --> your site --> wzjz better than your xite <--> wzjz just a link exchange because they jsut pass the same pr back to each other.
First let me say congratulations to you for obtaining a great PR without actively working towards it. Second as others have mentioned you may want to work on your offpage optimization if you are noting diminished results. If you're writing your blog the same way as you have previously then I wouldn't think that it's your content or onpage optimization that is the reason for the decreased PR.
There will always be some amount of PR decay. Even if you maintain all your links. As the web grows and millions of new pages get added all the time. The numbers of pages at a particular PR level will change. There are only 11 levels of PR, including PR0. And Google is constantly shuffling its calculations of how many pages get to be a PR3 vs a PR4, or a PR4 vs a PR5, etc. Your relative position in the logarithmic scale of PR that compares your page to all the other pages on the web will change as the number of web pages grows, and all their relative positions change. But, that said, a drop from 6 to 4 means you probably lost some good links.
yeah it is all about you link popularity...PR == links...improve it and your PR will change on the next update...