What the heck is going on with pagerank?

I know. My site is a solid SERP #1 on Yahoo continuously, on a common two word phrase. When I saw it hit 0, I thought it was a glitch in my Firefox toolbar.

When I did a LivePR check, I was really shocked. Apparently I’m banned. Glad I got involved with other monetizing.

Good luck…and yeah, you rock.

Thank you! For a few years our webiste has been a solid 4 but suddenly it has dropped down to a 3…even though inboud links have gone up. Some PR reporting sites have us at 0! I’ve been trying to figure out what we had done to our site to cause this. Other than adding a blog last month we’ve not changed our main pages at all. Learning that it is most likely a Google hiccup or policy changes, over which we have no control, is not good. However learning that I am not going insane and making major blunders is somewhat reassuring…I think.

I know the PR toolbar is wonky Tricia, but what’s going on with your site traffic? Is it being negatively imacted?

i don´t know whats going on. i went from 0 to pr 4 and after 2 weeks i went back to 2. i didn´t even sold links to that time. i think companys like p should do their own ranking system related on visitors. or nobody blog for them anymore.

John I’m still doing well in the serps. If you go to google and type in Tricia I come up second and my website (big one on exotic pets) comes up on the second page. I really haven’t worked on building good search terms for this site, but my name comes up high. Good to hear that you’re still doing well in the serps too.

Jim you aren’t going insane. Google hit big sites like CNN and the Washington Post but for some reason their PR went back up … maybe they have an in with Google that we smaller webmasters don’t have? Anyway Google’s hit a lot of sites hard. It’s not just hitting blogs but blogs seems to be taking the brunt of it. BTW you inquired about my Gardening blog … tell me what you are interested in and we’ll talk.

Jeff no my site traffic is the same or perhaps better. I’ve got over 5000 pages cached on Google … my traffic should be good! LOL I’ve never really worked on specific keywords for this site but I’m number two if you were to do a Google search for Tricia … it’s just the PR that’s affected.

Dee this site was a PR5 up to two weeks or so ago and as I said in my post I really was expecting it to go higher since it gains new links daily. It dropped to a 3 two weeks ago and is holding steady for now. It’s my other sites that dropped to a zero (celebrity, gardening, two tech blogs, my husbands guitar and humor blogs and another general blog I write) … all zeros when they were PR4, PR3 and Pr2 before these drops started.

I’ve pretty much written Google off but it’s still hard not to let it get to me when I’ve taken such a big hit across the board!

It´s me again tricia. good to here that p doing a ralrank because i just went from 2 to 0 !!! rrrrrr

my blog was new that´s right just 3 month old but, a lot of work i swear !!!

sets see what happens with p. looking forward to it.

I just joined P this evening so looking forward to the challenge. My Technorati rank plummeted a few weeks back but my blog PR is steady at 5 and hasn’t changed.

Is anyone actually seeing traffic down, or just not liking their lowered page ranks? If it’s just a lower page rank, then who cares, right?

I got knocked down from a PR5 to a PR3 about 2 weeks ago on one site and from a PR3 to a PR2 on a new site I have. I hear they have really hit the blogs that do P and from what I can tell that’s pretty much true. Of course, there are others.

I took the ‘no-follow’ stuff off my blogs because I have heard that is a trigger to get PR reduced. I’ve also changed all my categories so that nothing has any keywords that would trigger the bots to think they are paid (hopefully!).

They are saying they are doing it to have more accurate ratings as opposed to ratings that are falsely inflated because of buying links, etc. But they are also putting in misleading searches (i can’t find the link to the article I read about that earlier this evening or I’d put it here). It seems to me they are just taking more control of the nets and hammering down some of their potential competition.

My google adsense earnings have gone down by half even though I haven’t seen that much difference in terms of traffic from google searches. Of course, it has drastically affected what I can make with P.

Your rank could have been affected due to a lot of your backlinks getting their page rank reduced as well. If you’ve been reading the I blog you should know that they are bringing in Ralrank next week so we’ll all have a new system that gages our site ranks by traffic/visitors/page views.