Ranking change by 50%?

Without any change in the site?

[freitasm]

I've just noticed now that my site (which used to have PR6 in the default page, and PR5 or PR6 in all others) is now showing PR3 on the front page and PR0 or PR1 in other pages.

Nothing was changed in its structure, all asp scripts are the same as before. Its content is dynamic with five to six new articles every day, indexed by news.google.com in 15 minutes, and usually on google.com next day.

Any ideas why this?

[ken_b]

Have you lost any high PR backlinks? Either because theyhave been taken dowwn, or because they are no longer passing PR?

[freitasm]

Hard to say... I have a few dozen directly from PR8 sites, a few hundreds from PR7 websites and so on. Even linked from Slashdot (PR9) four or five times in the last 12 months.

Just visited it again and now the Google Toolbar is showing PR5... Go figure!

Thanks :)

[Critter]

A PR9 or two, several PR8s and lots of PR7s and you've only got a PR5/6?

That sounds AWFULLY low to me.

[freitasm]

It sounds low to myself too, but can't change what Google decides :(

[BigDave]

What is the PR of the pages that link to you, and do they usually link to your articles instead of your home page?

[nuevojefe]

I think he's saying the PR of the linking sites' homepages, not the pages that link to his site.

Thus PR9 (slashdot) link means some random subpage (PR?) on that domain links to him.

[freitasm]

do they usually link to your articles instead of your home page?

Yes, usually they link to specific articles...

Ok, I've counted. Slashdot linked seven times to my site in the last 12 months. But the Slashdot pages with links are only PR3 themselves.

Not looking at the other, but probably similar patterns...

[caveman]

Are your rankings in the SERP's changed at all?

[BigDave]

Unless google happens to update pagerank on the day your site is on the front page, /. links are almost useless for gaining PR. Just count up how many links are on an average /. page.

Slashdot is a great example of how one link can cause your PR to jump around. If you are on the front page when they calculate it one month, you will probably get a PR7, but the next mont, you will probably one get a PR1 equivalent, if you are lucky, from that same link.

The PR you gain from /. is Public Relations, not PageRank.

[walkman]

maybe google is seeing too many high PR links compared to the total backlinks and ....?