PR3 dropped to 0

PR shooted down w/o any explainable reason

[nobug]

It is 2 monthes that my site was ranked PR3. During the last dance, it became PR0 with no special reason. I did not make any change, I took care to select outgoing links with good PR, etc ...

One point which could maybe explain is that my site is dedicated to photography, and I use a banner on the homepage. This banner holds thumbnails, which are randomly selected each time a new connection is done.

So Googlebot could make the analysis that my homepage is fluctuating. I understood that some bots don't like dynamic content.

Could someone give me a hand? I cannot live without the banner, it is the signature for my site.

Thx.

[Yidaki]

>I cannot live without the banner, it is the signature for my site.

Stop! Stay with it - it's not the reason for your *problems*!

You only said that your pr seems to have dropped down to 0. What about the positions for relevant searches? Still like before?

>I understood that some bots don't like dynamic content.

Google loooves it!

Allways look at your traffic first, then on your positions and not on your pr. Ignore the toolbar - at least as long as you don't see a significant drop in traffic.

[nobug]

Indeed my traffic was not affected

+ my position depending on keywords neither.

So, what the hell is this PR? I still do not understand why it is so important to us if it is not a must for a good position?

[Yidaki]

>So, what the hell is this PR? I still do not understand why it is so important to us if it is not a must for a good position?

LOL! Forget it! As long as you're not hunting for the real gold searches just ignore it!

[trillianjedi]

Google loooves it!

..... subject to there being less than two "&" variables in the URL's.

And I wouldn't say it loves it. I would say "it copes with it". lol

TJ

("shot", not "shooted")

;-)

[nobug]

Sorry for the bad shot.

Despite I took care of my english, I sometime get trapped.

Thanks for your feedback.

(long life to France webmasters :-)

[trillianjedi]

Your English is better than some native English speakers I could mention! lol

TJ

Vive la WebmasterWorld!

[esaslo]

why doesn't it like the "&" operator? to what extent does it ignore this operator, and what extent does it "Cope" with it?

[g1smd]

Something long like &category=001&page=22&product=14&id=7&vendor=9&colour=blue is unlikely to be indexed.

If there are two, or less than two, parameters it looks like Google can usually cope with it.

[Marcia]

Two parameters seem to be OK, but if all the dynamically generated pages have identical titles running across all of the pages, that's no help.

Sites only a couple of months old have *seemed* to have lost their PR, but they actually haven't. Some of those sites can slip in and out of the SERPs for their keywords and don't show backlinks, but it's just something that's part of the process that's going on now.

See Understanding Dominic [webmasterworld.com] for a rundown.

It'll all iron out in a few weeks, and there's no cause for worry in most cases, as long as the sites are clean with no tricks.