Adding new pages reduces PR?

Can I get the PR back?

[Blade3]

Hi,

I have a site with PR 5. A month ago, I added new pages to home page of my site. Now, the PR toolbar shows a PR 4. (reduced by 1 unit)

How can I get PR 5 back? Does internal navigation plays an important role? Or this is because of adding new pages to home page?

[tedster]

Adding new pages should help your PR, especially if they link back to the home page. What I think has happened is that in recent days there has been a toolbar PR update, the first in about four months or so. You probably had a "low 5" and with the new pages that have come into the index that now is re-calibrated to a "high 4".

[Kufu]

re-calibrated

I've had the same thing happen to a couple of my sites. I actually have better rankings in the new SERPs.

Google is certainly re-calibrating as I now have more links than I did before, and instead have a PR3 instead of a 4.

[mydigi]

same to me!