PR Fluctuation

[mosley700]

I'm seeing a few of my sites flucuating between PR7 and PR0. These sites were PR7 - and now the toolbar is showing PR0. Just browsing around the Internet, I'm seeing a lot of sites that shouldn't be PR0 show PR0 in the toolbar. Anybody else seeing this? It just happened today.

[WebGuerrilla]

It's not anything to worry about. It is quite common for the toolbar to not function proerly during an update cycle.

[anxvariety]

What the heck!? I just removed a couple outbound links from my home page and it jumped to PR5.

So I look to see if my position has changed in google.. it hasn't, but I click the link from there to go to my site and now my PR is 4?!?

What gives?

anx

[heini]

Anx, please read around a little bit in this forum here, especially in the update threads. Lots of people seeing the same fluctuations. This is absolutely normal behaviour during update periods.

[ciml]

Also, we know that it may take a while for the current backlinks to show in the new Google versions. As far as I can tell, the Toolbar data from the sj/fi datacentres are also based on old backlinks.

This does not seem to affect the rankings, which seem to be based on a more current link index.

[mosley700]

I can't think that I'm really going to be hit w/ PR0 - the sites have improved ranking in the SERps. Still, it is hurting my feelings to see that on my sites. ;)

[suggy]

For what it's worth, I checked my PR through all the data centers this morning and found 1 showing PR0.

The site in question was only awarded its first true PR in the April update. Reading around the other threads, I deduced that the PR0 showing up was due to one of the datacenters using an old index for development - or words to that effect.

Like Heini says: PR fluctuations anyhow during an update...

Suggy

[Aylah]

Still, it is hurting my feelings to see that on my sites. ;)

Me too! Seeing my site drop down to a PR4 is a bit depressing, but then 10 minutes later it's PR5 again.

I know fluctuations in PR are normal during a dance, but there does seem to be "bigger fluctuations" IMO

[scottyman]

Quick question. How do you check your PR on the www2. -sj. data centres? I can check the results in SERPS OK but when I go to the Directory it defaults to the google.com main directory. Thanks and excuse my ignorance.

[Assadic]

I think that google has a partnership with the drug prozac. When I see my site with a PR0 during the dance, this is dreadful for my heart

[UK_Web_Guy]

Guys

Judging from the comments in the other threads it is quite clear that the PR values you will be seeing are from a couple of months back.

Nothing to worry about, will all correct itself once current backlinks etc taken into account.

[twilight47]

Does everyone think that updates from now on are going to go on like this?

Perhaps Google has put it's money into Mental Health Stocks. ;)