Old page in large site lost PR

only one page in site was affected

[survivor]

This last weekend, one of our primary department pages had its PR set to 0. It is still in the index and we haven't changed anything. Have any of you experienced this before?

[stargeek]

I have not, and it is even more surprising than an update in toolbar PR happened without a more general toolbar PR update.

Not to sound too obvious, but I've accidentally done this before, are you sure you are using the correct url? (ie www vs non-www?) exact url makes a difference in toolbar PR.

[survivor]

The url hasn't changed. The navigation in the site hasn't changed. I can't find any reason why this would happen. Maybe Google believes it's duplicate content? How could I check to see if somebody has copied this page?

[miedmark]

Survivor - same thing happened to me. 3 pages lost PR to 0. We have lost about 50% of traffic as well. Index page and other pages PR remained the same (4 and less). Go figure, waiting patiently to rebound. I don't see how my site could be penaltized or filtered. And, yes, the 3 pages were the best pages on our site, all original content written by me.

[survivor]

Miedmark - when exactly did that happen to you?

[Lorel]

have you validated the code and run a link check? I use w3.org and another validator also as the first doesn't catch all the broken tags. Also make sure you have linked to that page from other pages on your site.

[miedmark]

Sept. 24th

[miedmark]

All 3 pages "rebounced", exactly a month later. Previous page rank was 3 now 4. No changes to those pages were done whatsoever.?

[stinkfoot]

survivor www.copyscape.com is a good resource for checking your content.

On the other topic just this week some of my pages are PR0 that have been PR5 and PR4 not new no change to structure it is just google playing about.