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No Tools sites or urls please The explosion of Google related free and commercial site tools has opened a flood gate of url dropping to "tools" sites. Therefore, we request you don't post links to "Google tools" (there are dozens if not hundreds of them now as a result of the Google API).
Sudden jumps and/or declines in positioning, or pr and several sites have lost a quanity or all back links.
A few have noted that there competitors have also been affected.
My gut tells me this was not a smooth update.
Some key portion of the google db is missing or corrupt or something.
Right now I am telling everyone to hold fast and not to implement any knee jerk reactions.
However I have suggested we forumulate short solutions and a plan that can be implemented in short order if the current situation remains after the next updates.
Hate major changes during the busy holiday season.
<edited>Just seen it: [webmasterworld.com...]
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This is certainly true of many of mine and collegue's sites.
I don't think it is necessarily a "lowering" of your site's PR. It is more a general lowering of PR, so your "PR position" should remain the same even though your PR number has lowered by 1.
I too have suffered with a PR0 site, which apparently had the ban lifted in the last reindex only to be dropped completely by this index. I wonder whether the last index was a preliminary update to a new way of handling banned sites?
New Site(s)
Aug Update - Grey PR - No show in index
Sep Update - 2 PR - in top 5 in most of my keywords
Oct Update - 0 PR - not even in the top 100 on keywords
Nov Update -?
