What happened to my PageRank?

January 4, 2007

As recently as a month or so ago, I used to have a PageRank of 5/10. Now it is at 2/10! Did I do it with my holiday redesign? Or is this part of some other Google anomalies that others were complaining about? Granted, I did redesign my site over the holidays using a custom WordPress theme built on top of the YUI Reset/CSS/Grid resources. But if anything, I thought that I made things a little cleaner and more SEO friendly. I even added the Google Sitemap Generator for WordPress v2 to the site!

While I was kind of happy to see the 5/10 rank, I always thought that it seemed a little high. I’m sure it had something to do with getting linked to directly from Gadgetopia on several different posts. Hmmm. Gadgetopia used to have a PageRank of 6/10. Now they are showing up as 3/10. I definitely think something is up. … 2 minutes later … Gadgetopia is back up to 6/10.

Unfortunately, I’ve got too many variables at play to even begin to isolate or determine what is going on. My major site re-design is one variable. The fact that I uninstalled the Google Toolbar yesterday and just re-installed it an hour ago could be another. Who knows? Could just be an anomaly. I’ve seen my ego search for matt smith go from the 19th result to not showing in the top 500 and then back again within a day.

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