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First of all, thanks to GoogleGuy and the whole team for the tremendous job done so far.
I'm quite happy with the SERPs which are improving for my keyphrases, even if my PR dropped from 6 to 5.
I'm wondering if this PR drop could be due to the fact that the directory category listed under my site points to a non-existing category? I checked under DMOZ, and am still listed in there... although the category has been renamed recently (I don't know when).
Not that the little drop in PR is making me nervous, but I'm just wondering... SERPs are fine, and that's important ;)
Anybody facing the same "non existing cat" issue?
Dan
Do not forget that every month Google indexes more or less 3% more documents/pages [webmasterworld.com].
The average absolute Pagerank stays the same (one), however Pagerank is spread out over more newly indexed documents and towards existing pages to already indexed documents through newly added links.
If you have not received new links towards any of your site's pages or if the pages linking towards you have not received any new links, you might have dropped in Pagerank relative to the rest of the indexed pages (same goes of course to the Pagerank quality of the pages linking towards your pages).
It is another question if the Google directory back-link counts as extra back-link relative to the "same" DMOZ back-link (it does show as extra in the back-link check).
It may be that the ODP has updated the ontology in this area since the last Google directory load (September?), and that the Google Directory update is incomplete.
GoogleGuy...?
