Home Page Rank Dropped from 5 to 3

Other Pages still at 4 or 5 why?

[liamgt]

I have spend the last 2 months building up decent links from other related sites to try and increase my rank. However after the last google update my Page rank for my sites home page has dropped from a respectable 5 to 3. The SERPS do not seen to be affected too much by this though. Could this be affected by my outgoing links even though my links page has a pr of 5. Any explaination on this one is much appreciated.

Liam

[stever]

This would in all likelihood be related to a drop in PR of pages linking to your main page in the last update. Do you have outside links to your links page which have caused it to hold up?

NB All the PR in the world won't help if the site in question crashes viewers' browsers :)

[liamgt]

Cheers for the quick reply steve. The only links to my Links page are from either the search engines or from within my own site.

NB Has my site crashed your browser in some way?

[Marcia]

Liam, the interior pages I saw had PR5. But the page we first get to, instead of the homepage - which probably links would point to - is a page it's being redirected to, which is PR3. No way to tell what the PR of the homepage is, I can't get to see it with IE.

[Tropical Island]

Liam - When I just tried to access the site in your profile I got this message:

Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers error '80004005'

[Microsoft][ODBC Microsoft Access Driver] Disk or network error.

/inc/db.inc, line 10

Our main site had this same problem. What we were doing was putting a link on every page to an internal index page not the home page. As soon as we included a small link to the home page it returned to PR5 from the PR4 it was getting. the internal link page was always a PR5.