Page Rank Dropped

[Ravenfire]

I used to have a page rank on my forum of 4 but in the last month it has suddenly dropped to 2! Google has been on there indexing and my home page is still 4 (I havent made any changes to forum) so what could have caused this?

[Rob Holmes]

Ravenfire,

Have a look here: http://www.google.com/technology/

You may or maynot already have read it..

But it might explain a bit (e.g. someone has stopped linking to you maybe?)

Yet another good reason for people to join the Great UKBF Link Exchange (I know you already have Ravenfire)

Rob

[Ravenfire]

Hi Rob

Thanks for your reply.

I link with everyone through my main link though and my forums is a /forums extension of that link so wouldnt my main link have dropped in page rank as well?

Toni

[epiphany]

Google tweaks its ranking algorithm all the time so when an update takes place a sites rage rank statistics can go up and down.

[MinuWeb]

Was it about 2 - 3 months ago when loads of sites that previously had good rankings sudenly went to 0, lots of unhappy people.........

[Ravenfire]

Well I only really noticed it a couple of weeks ago tbh

[Stationery-Direct]

We had exactly the same problem with another website that we have, for about 12 months we were ranked Number 1 on Google for a certain Search Term, about 2 months ago we stopped coming up No 1 and came up on and around page 10 instead. Not a happy bunny.

Apparently Google changed their listing criteria recently, time to play catch up and redo my SEO again.

[ebonybailey]

how do you know how its ranked, do you mean were you appear when someone types in ( in my case ) telemarketing, or have i missed the picture here? if i have what do you mean and how do i find how i am ranked???

[Ravenfire]

I have a google tool bar and it shows the page ranks on there for each site and each page within that site

[epiphany]

http://toolbar.google.com/en_GB/

[Stationery-Direct]

ebonybailey: Yes you are correct, to check your page rank take a look at:-

http://www.pagerank.net/pagerank-checker/

[epiphany]

This one is better, it shows how many links you have coming back to your site and it tries to predict your page rank at the next Google update.

http://www.searchengineengine.com/