Rankings drop while PR holds steady; and some more strange things

Rankings change on the latest thanksgiving update

[Namaste]

Hello all. I am happy to report from the land of snake charmers, cows & IT.
My websites have been online for about 2 years and like you all Google has become a major factor in my life. My sites are hosted in the US, so I fall in the same boat as far as crawls go as most of you.
All was going well for the last 8 months until the thanksgiving day updates by Google. Suddenly I find my websites not featuring as well as previously:
- single keyword search: dropped from no. 80 to no. 130
- dual keyword search dropped from no. 1-3 to 8-10
- triple keyword search dropped from no. 1 to 3-4

so overall worse results.

However, page rank is uncahnged
but no. of inward links has decreased significantly, though they should have gone up

Some factors to consider:
1. My I.P. changed becuase I shifted servers - does this impact negatively? I believe so, becuase there was is a redirect on the old I.P. I also noticed that immediately Freshbot has stopped its revisits

2. Many of my inward links come from the same sites. Any known changes in Googles algorithm regarding inward links?

3. Is Google penalising for inward links from certain sites now? Interestingly, the pages I suspected that would be penalised no longer feature in Google list of links to my site (using link: ), however those same pages still maintain a page rank of 2-4

4. The no. of inward links is now actually lower, when infact it should be higher. It is lower by a dramatic figure of nearly 1500. Even if I discount 100 links for pages that I believe were suspect, this still does not explain the sortage of the balance. I have actually checked the pages that are linking to me and all those links are intact, so why the drop?

5. Is there anyway that one can see all the links that google is counting? I can only see the 1st 1000 links from Google

[vitaplease]

Namaste,

many have been complaining of lesser inbound link count in Google. Could it be that many of yours have dropped below the PR4?

Also double check alltheweb.com for back links.

[pageoneresults]

I also think this has to do with a major increase in index size and the rescaling of PR. Many sites that were at PR4 are probably sitting at PR3 right now. That would account for the issues pertaining to backlinks.

Just think, when you throw that many more pages into the mix, there is going to be a major reshuffling in some areas. At the same time, everything has to spread out that much further.

[Namaste]

Hi Vitaplease & Pageoneresults,
my page rank is holding steady:
Homepage: PR7
Level 2 pages: PR6
Level 3 pages: PR5
All other pages: PR4

Also my rank in the Google Directory is intact at no. 2 in my category

Does anyone have any info of Google penalising for links from certain pages? And for change in IP?

Thanks,
N.

[glengara]

Hi Namaste, I've noticed the same in a regional G directory category I keep my eye on; in the last two updates, usually PR remains the same, but number of links drop, some dramatically.
My rationale isn't too widely supported though ;-)
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