Today My site's PR Dropped from PR3 to PR 1. I had checked it before three days and it was PR3.

Does any one else have experienced the same thing??? I thought PR Update for June is Done but Google is still updating.

If Google kept the same updating routine this will be a hard time for SEO and Webmasters.

Yes my site PR is also dropped and now it is 0.
I think it may come back after some time.

It was last June (24 I guess) that Google made another update. It's getting frequent now, instead of the 3 months interval.

My inner pages PR changed in the last update, but nothing this time around

I haven't noticed any PR changes with my sites since June. If Google is updating more frequently, I'll need to keep a closer eye on my sites. Thanks for the heads up!

That's good thing that Google is updating frequently, it will be very helpful for consistent and daily working SEOs. You will work daily and you will be on the top, you will leave your work and result is lose of ranking and all that

Nope, I didn't see any change in my site's PR, but my blog have... I stil need to do more optimization to get my analytics a lot better.

Webmasters and SEO gurus have been scratching their heads for a few weeks now trying to figure out what has been happening to Google's SERP rankings. After scouring blogs and forums for the last few days, it would seem that there is no real consensus. In fact, it seems that no one is willing to even speculate much as to what is happening. To date there has not been any official word from Google. We all know that Google does not announce their algorithm updates, much to the chagrin of webmasters everywhere.

The buzz recently on several blogs and from our own data demonstrates significant changes in PageRank and wild fluctuations in websites SERP. The last big news we did hear from Google was the June 16th 2009 announcement from Matt Cutts blog on PageRank sculpting where he discussed changes to how Google treats link juice when there are nofollow links. But that's another blog topic altogether so if you like you can read the full post here: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/ pagerank-sculpting/ so it may be that the nofollow·attribute has been rendered useless for sculpting PageRank. But then, PR sculpting was never really the intended function behind nofollow; it was merely convenient side effect.



All that Google employee, John Mu cared to say when answering a customer's inquiry as to why his site had suddenly dropped in PR with no apparent cause was:

"Hi Radoslav
You have a nice-looking site . As far as I can tell, it looks like the change in Toolbar PageRank for your site is only due to some technical quirk and not something that you need to worry about.

Cheers
John"

Barry Schwartz (AKA "Rustybrick") then pointedly asks:

"John, is the PR 'Technical Quirk' somewhat widespread?"

There was no further reply from Google. The post is available at the Google Webmaster Help forum.

Unfortunately, when a person's website goes south in rankings for no apparent reason, people do notice and do worry about it. So unless Google opens up a bit we are left scratching our heads as usual, trying to figure out what is going on.

The following thread gives another vote to the possibility that Google is replacing PageRank value with site trust and/or domain authority: http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/020335.html. This is also one of many threads where users are expressing frustration and beginning to consider trying the new alternative to Google, Bing. Watch your back Google.

There have been some major experiments this year from Google that were relatively short lived and those are fine. We all expect to see the occasional wild results for a weekend every few months along with quarterly PageRank updates. The June PR update was enough of a surprise coming so close on the heels of an update late in May: http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/020273.html. The update itself is not too shocking. What is interesting is that this is happening so soon after Google's last update and the fact that garbage results and rapid ranking changes have been coming steadily for weeks now. It's about time Google lets things settle down before more people get the bright idea to give Bing a try.

Here are some direct comments from the forum members at webmasterworld.com:

http://www.webmasterworld.com/google/3943981-4-30.htm

"It has been my observation "followgreg" (a username) when the SERP's get like what you describe above this is what [Google] wants to happen so the Review team and Matt's team can put the necessary data in place that will deal with what your describing. It is easier to review a site when they are on page 1 versus page 200 and [Google] knows what filters were relaxed that would allow for the "New" 1st page ranking to pop up. I myself don't see the polluted SERP's as your describing but then again I am not in every sector and can only look at the nitches I am working under."




http://www.webmasterworld.com/google/3943981-2-30.htm "and right now it looks like all sets of the results include some trivial and penalized and junk .edu pages rising into the top 50, along with some long-neglected good ones. This used to happen all the time with updates -- shuffle things up, the poop rises, then it gets flushed, and things settle down. We haven't had an update in that format in a long time, but it seems clear we are in the middle of whatever is changing and not the end."

We can analyze the SERP's, collect all the data we can find, and listen to all of the "buzz" we like, but at the end of the day we are still at the mercy of the "Big G". It is not unusual for Google to conduct their more aggressive algorithm changes at this time of year, but it is unusual to see so much experimentation so close together taking so long. With there being no official word coming from Google, it's hard to do more than speculate on the changes that we can observe. We all certainly hope that things stabilize soon and we'll continue monitoring changes in the rankings.

But until Google decides to straighten things out can anyone say "Pay-per-click"? I knew you could...

So how does the widely varied public opinion on the matter line up with search results?

I am willing to make an educated guess that Google is experimenting with website trust and authority in their algorithm (and perhaps plenty more). However, as complaints from the forums echo Google's search results seem to be rather bi-polar these last few weeks.

We have well established sites being outranked by new sites and by sites with very few backlinks. Also by sites using black hat techniques and unfortunately we see some established and often very trustworthy white hat websites simply dissappearing from the rankings altogether. At the same time we have literally day old Craigslist posts ranking in the top results. Some .edu and .gov sites have flown to the top while others have plummetted.

Looks like everyone will have to just suspend judgement

Mine dropped too but PR doesn't pay the bills so not over concerned.

I always kind of wondered what the point of PR is? Most people (after reading around on here) seem to say it doesn't affect SERPS, so why does it matter?

Yeah, it seems the pr rating is kind of screwy right now. Hopefully it gets straightened out soon. Yahoo is having problem right now also.