CRY! My PR has dropped from 6 to 5

fishfreek · 11-26-2003, 09:30 AM

Do we freqently see PR movement prior to a big database update? I ask because today I noticed that my site

www.aquariumadvice.com has a PR of 5 now where as it used to carry a PR of 6. Also if you go to www.aquariumadvice.com/index.php that page itself had a PR of 5 but now has a PR of 4.

John Scott · 11-26-2003, 09:32 AM

Did you lose some inbound links?

fishfreek · 11-26-2003, 09:33 AM

I dont know. Im not exactly a link pimp so I dont keep track of inbound links from one period of time to the next.

John Scott · 11-26-2003, 09:34 AM

Hmm. Well, I see a lot of sites dropping PR, so it might just be a relatively wide PR-drop.

John Scott · 11-26-2003, 09:34 AM

Oh, and you really should be a link pimp.

Brian · 11-26-2003, 10:17 AM

Same here. My PR dropped ffrom 6 to 5, AFTER i got my PR9 website link. I'm a tad peeved.

fishfreek · 11-26-2003, 10:23 AM

If the PR of all the sites I 'compeate' aganst drops also then im less peeved. If their pr statys the same and mine drops then ill be pissed.

hopefully this is a temporary situation.

link-pimp · 11-26-2003, 10:53 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JohnScott

Oh, and you really should be a link pimp.

link pimping has its advantages

fishfreek · 11-26-2003, 11:38 AM

you gotta be joking. www.link-pimp.com

samer · 11-26-2003, 11:48 AM

got the tuto from juggo huH?
(the top pic)

I, Brian · 11-26-2003, 01:35 PM

My two smaller sites have dropped PR from 6 to 5, but frankly I took most of their backlinks away some time ago, and surprised the PR lasted that long.

PR is certainly a relative issue, and borderline sites can go up and down every other update. Loss of backlinks is a common explanation though - not least if backlinking sites lose PR, and thus backlinks are affected.

See what happens at the next update, though - Google was a little severe in its behaviour recently.

fishfreek · 11-26-2003, 01:41 PM

Whats confusing is that two URL's on my site both dropped 1 pr score. If it was a result of backlinks dropping then i would have expted the .com/ url to drop off before the com/index.php url as I personally have never put any backlings to the index.php file.

PhilC · 11-26-2003, 02:40 PM

Don't worry too much about dropping a Toolbar PR point. If a page was only just over the PR6 boundary, it may have dipped to just under it - not much of a change.

Don't forget that, as Google's index gets larger, the PR boundaries must move and some pages will drop a point for no 'apparent' reason.

JuggoPop · 11-26-2003, 03:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by samer

got the tuto from juggo huH?
(the top pic)

I actually did that image myself.

Pimpen 2010 · 11-26-2003, 04:51 PM

http://www.aquariumadvice.com/photop...php?photo=1118

Thats friggin awesome

Sorry about the PR loss

fishfreek · 11-26-2003, 04:57 PM

Blah

http://www.aquariumadvice.com/photop....php?photo=773

That ones better.

Pimpen 2010 · 11-26-2003, 04:58 PM

Thats cool too. But I like how its like a wormy fish

I, Brian · 11-27-2003, 12:41 AM

Btw - fishfreak - to conserve PR you really need to look at using either the

/

OR

/index.php

as your main site URL. OTherwise your PR is split between both URLs - and Google sees them as entirely different.

I'm sure John or Phil have an article banging around about it - something to watch out for if you're concerned with PR.

PhilC · 11-27-2003, 08:13 AM

;P

There ya go

SLX · 09-28-2006, 01:03 PM

PR 5 from 6 is not too dramatic, my site http://www.go-advise.com hasn't got a PR yet!!!