Where did my Page Rank go?
The September 26th Google toolbar update has come and gone for many websites, literally. Many websites that received a Page Rank increase late September 2008 have seen the newly acquired Rank revert back to it’s previous state by Friday October 3.
Page Rank is a Google quality score which is dependent on the number of quality inbound links to your web site. Content or on page optimization technique do not effect page rank.
The reasons for a normal Page Rank decrease can be numerous. And would be difficult to determine without historical knowledge of the inbound links. Google does a Page Rank update every 3 to 4 months whenever the feeling hits them, and Page Rank usaully has a 3 or 4 month lag. So when your Page Rank changes, you are seeing the update in your toolbar that actually happened 3 or 4 months ago.
The reason for the October 3rd decrease probably has more to do with there being different data exports, which in essense means Google may have given authority to some of there datacenters to update Page Rank independently. In 2007 during a Page Rank update, aka “Page Rank Shuffle” this happened once before. After a few days it seemed to settle down and go back to normal.
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