Page rank

moving to a new host affects page ranking

[Chair]

I moved my website to another web hosting. MY website has 6 PR but since I moved to a new host (last week) my page rank went down to "0". However, when i type the keywords which are associated to my website, I am in the top 10, sometimes 20. But in my toolbar, zero. Why is that?
I thought that moving a web site to a new host will not affect the page ranking. Does anyone have the same experience? Is this a part of some sort of propagation time? Any help and suggestion is greatly appreciated, thanks!

Chair

[designhaus]

i experienced the same thing. from a 5 to a 0. but my page rank is now back again a month later

[webnewton]

PR has nothing to do with your changing the host. Many sites are experiencing the same thing i.e they're going PR 0 and regaining PR after a week or 10 days. Ranking fluctuations are also normal. Wait for a while before drawing any conclusion.

[Spica]

It doesn't make sense, and perhaps these are just coincidences, but I also know of a site to which the same thing happened recently: moved to a new host, got PR0 without an effect of SERP placement, then regained normal PR after about a month.

[rfgdxm1]

When you switched hosts, did you keep the old site up at the old host AND at the new host for at least 3 days to allow for DNS propagation? DNS is decentralized, and switching hosts is not instantaneous. If you did, then Google should have seamlessly found your site at the new host. If you didn't, Googlebot could have found your site gone and treated it as such.