Seems strange. Googles pagerank update has considerable changed a lot for me.
One of my newly purchased domains with very few backlinks went from 0 to PR4.
Another which has quite a few backlinks has just dropped from 5 to 0.
Seems strange. Although i doubt its todo with a change in the Algo. I think its more to do with people changing their outgoing link strategy.
Your Blog is an enjoyable read.
Its great.
I think the time has come for us to admit (and spread the word) that visible pagerank is a joke. I don't know why Google makes it public, unless they think it can sell advertisers on AdWords. Who knows, they may decided to decrease pagerank because you don't serve AdSense. They can do whatever they want. There's no reason we should treat it like a serious metric.
There has recently been a lot of real estate related sites that have been "slapped" in the google pagerank area.
Many have gone down by 1 or 2 points. At the same time, many have also gone back up and many people are still getting the same levels of traffic (and higher) - so it may not make that much difference.
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A few days ago my own pagerank here on the jangro.com homepage dropped from 6 to 4. I was always a little dubious over my ranking of 6, so it must have been a very weak 6. Therefore, a 2 point drop isn't that surprising. In comparison, Jeremy mentioned recently that Shoemoney.com just dropped from 6 to 5. At least I'm in good company.
I'm not really sure what could have happened here, inbound links are steady, if not up, I don't sell posts, or even sponsorships (yet). I do have a few posts around here with some affiliate links in them, but that's not the norm. And arguably, those are my most useful posts judging by traffic and comments.
Maybe it's just a glitch.
Not to be all sour grapes and all, but I'm thinking this may at least partly be a good thing. My PR6 do-follow blog status has landed me pretty squarely at the top of the "Comment Monkey Todo List". I'd love to fall off their radar. Are you guys reading? Nothing to see here, move along now.
That lining's of course silver as long as my Google traffic doesn't drop. It doesn't seem to have been affected so far. It is a bit annoying to get slapped for nothing from a pure ego standpoint.
Elsewhere, there are lots of grumbling around about some recent Google activity. SERPS changes, PR changes, quality score changes. More weeding out what they consider bad user experiences.
How about you, do you see writing on the wall? Does Google and the traffic sources have their sights more and more on Affiliates and other online marketers?
And how about you and your websites?
Are you spending time looking over your shoulder, dodging bullets, and waiting for the next round?
Or what are you doing to just get completely out of the line of fire?