how were you affected from last update's PR drop

my site is doing better than last month

[ruserious]

As we can all remember during the last update a lot of sites had a slight drop of pr, usually of about 1 (Toolbar-PR). Our site had the same effect.

But given that some time has passed and rechecking my logs, I discovered that it did not hurt us at all. In fact the opposite is true, our google refferals climbed quite a bit (rough estimate +30%). The number of pages we have in the index climbed only very slightly (maybe +5%).

How did other sites develop after the last update? Which other factors should we be counting when making these
observations?

If this is a general trend, do you think it because really all sites' rank was dimished the same sort of a correction of the scale. Or do you think the weight of PR in the algo has diminished...?

[DaveN]

we had couple +1 and couple -1 nothing overly scary, Business as usual

DaveN

[gilli]

I can pretty much confirm the same thing - drop in PR of 1 and a drop in backlinks. However we have also seen a 25-30% increase in referrals.

What I am noticing is that we have not really climbed in the SERPs under any given keywords (SEO is not our main focus) but we are increasing in our range of keyword referrals - broader range = more traffic.

[teeceo]

I think its all about your backlinks being on topic. People were putting a smash down with the linking(getting thousands of links from 1 or 2 of topic sites and cleaning up) looks like google CLEAD that up on this update. anyone else see this?

teeceo.

[sachac]

I believe that we who strive to learn and optimize regularly, will benefit positively no matter what Google does. In the last refresh, our PR fell from 6 to 5. Other sites that compete for my traffic also fell. Our trafic however, went up. The big difference is that I have been optimizing my old pages and adding fresh pages on a regular basis. The general performance and visibility of my site has increased while my competitors were asleep. I'll certainly be letting sleeping dogs lie!

[doc_z]

> As we can all remember during the last update a lot of sites had a slight drop of pr, usually of about 1 (Toolbar-PR). Our site had the same effect.

I neither can confirm this nor can I rule out this. My pages seem to be unchanged (in ToolbarPR).

A change in TollbarPR for a page can be caused by several effects:
- a change of PR for pages linking to the site
- a change of transferred PR through a change of the number of links on those pages
- a change in the PR algorithm (e.g. the damping factor)
- a change in the Toolbar scale (e.g. caused by a change of the page with the highest PR through additional links)

Therefore, it is hard to separate the different effects.

Of course, a change in the Toolbar scale have no effect on the SERPS (in contrast to other changes).

[Birdman]

Yes, my best(highest traffic) site fell one notch last update but still holds the same positions as previous update, so no noticable change in traffic.

[Vampyre]

I had a site where the PR is the same as it was before the update, but now I'm getting 2-3 times the traffic that I had before. Now I'm scrambling to update the site to take advantage of the increased traffic.

[taxpod]

My PR was pretty much unchanged. My backlinks were up slightly. Number of pages in the database were up somewhat significantly. But Google referral traffic was definitely down about 10%.