PR going down..down... will it be gone?

why?

[chrisandsarah]

My site, before the latest google dance was a PR of 6
during the early dance it fluctuated from 6 to 5 and by yesterday it seemed to have stuck at a 5.
Today my worst nightmares have come true and its down to a 4.
Will it drop anymore?

Why would it dop like this? I havent done any major changes. and i still have the same amount of links in, i think. ( i checked alexa and it says 21 - same as before)

The only thing i can think of is that i have one other website which has around 100 pages, all of which i recently put a link back to the website in question. Would this be considered spamming? Have i been penalised? Should i remove these links and how do i go about fixing my PR with google again?
I rely on this site for my income. Please advise.

thanks,chris

[oilman]

Chris - I wouldn't worry about it. It looks like PR was greatly discounted in the last update and lots of site even lost PR a bit. The real question is have your rankings or traffic dropped as well? If not then don't worry about it. If they have then it's time to go link hunting again.

[chrisandsarah]

I have lost some listing positions with some of my key pages in the search engines, but to counter that i managed to get alot more pages on my site indexed, which has improved my traffic slightly the last few days.
I guess your right though, if the traffics coming then all should be ok.

I was going to do a week of link hunting this week, and with a PR of 6 i thought would be beneficial for this. but then how many webmasters have the google toolbar installed and can see the PR?

Would you still remove the links from the other site? Will it be considered as spamming?

[rogerd]

Webmasters who base their reply to your link request on your site's PR rather than its relevance are shortsighted. Keep looking for good links.

[martinibuster]

PR is something you have to keep working at. The nature of PR is to go down, to decay. Link Rot.

[EliteWeb]

Increase of links will help you out dramaticly. I relied for one of my sites soley on a dmoz link. Well some reason 'a' editor said it was spam saying that it was on another domain name ive never heard of. and wammo now its gone from google since its not in the dmoz. keep your links up, more and more. now i gotta find out who this guy is who didnt like my not spam but he wanted to associate it with spam link ;)