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Originally Posted by sarahpatience
Anyone else been affected by this recent update? On Friday I noticed that my site had been giving a google PR of 4, which was great as previously it had no ranking at all. However, over the weekend my site has all but vanished from google for several key phrases for which I have been ranked #1 for months. For some I've dropped back several pages and for others I don't even appear at all anymore. I was under the impression that a PR would mean better rankings as opposed to loss of rankings.
Sarah
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Hi Sarah,
I recognise your name from somewhere but I cant picture where.
The update is still working itself out. On Matt Cutts blog (he works for Google) he states on Oct 17th that there may be 3 parts to the Google update. I'd prepare yourself for a number of changes to all the numbers that are displayed and also bare in mind that Google have several datacenters and they dont always contain the same information.
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/
If you use the future pagerank tool at SEO chat forums or mcdars datacenter tool you can see what the pagerank of your site is over a number of different datacenters.
Just remember that the actual pagerank is always updating behind the scenes and it is only the toolbar display which has been updated. keyword positions on the search engines is what we really need to be focused on as this is what gets us traffic.
Just out of interest however here are how my sites faired this time around;
5 -> 5
2 -> 4
3 -> 4
3 -> 4
2 -> 3
2 -> 3
I was hoping for a 6 on the 5 one but at least they are all going in the right direction. I sell links from my sites which was why I was interested in the outcome of the update.
Stephen
Weirfire Web Designers
