AzCowboy - 8:35 pm on Feb 3, 2004 (gmt 0)

Let me tell you what I have seen - let me know your thoughts and ideas.

WHAT I HAVE SEEN

1) Pre-Austin I was a PR8 site, with 1400 links ....

2) At the start of this - I dropped down to like 500
links. I stayed PR8. However - my search results
moved as if they were PR6 or close to it.

3) About a week later - I was showing a PR6.

4) More links removed - now down to 1 link.

5) More search results dropped. As if I am a PR4
site or similar.

6) Sub pages dropping from Google Cache like flies.
As if they are a PR2 - not the PR4 it now shows. I
am betting my PR will drop to a PR4 on my home page
very soon.

7) If you do a search for sites that contains a link
to my URL - www.myurl.com - it shows 2900 pages.

8) No spider activity since the start of Austin.

9) Noticing spider activity a week ago - mostly PR4
or PR5 sites.

10) Noticing spider activity Sunday night - mostly
PR5 or PR6 sites.

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All this said - it seems to me that

THEORIES

1) Google is trying to re-do Pagerank - and to do
that - some top sites are being brought down to 0, so
no pagerank is passed on.

2) That when the next Link count / spider / crawl occurs - the old link exchanges with enough other PR
applied to them - should show back up again. (A guess
on my part)

3) Based on that your high PR sites will be recalcualted to a new PR - probably less than before.

4) Your dropped cache pages will then be re-spidered
and indexed.

Leaving you - hopefully - more or less like before.

This is PURE THEORY on my part.

Any thoughts and ideas would be appreciated.