Joshnet Web Devlopment – Developer's Notes

My PageRank Dropped To Zero February 16, 2010

I know that everyone tells you not to worry about your Google PageRank that much anymore and they are right, you shouldn’t. First of all it is only updated a few times a year, but also it is only one of about 200 relevant factors to your place on the SERPs. Still, there is just something about that little green bar that makes it sometging special. It is kind of your reputation on the Internet, and even though Google has said to stop focusing on it so much, its hard to ignore it. I know that it is one of the first things that I check for on a site. Something tells me, I can trust a site with a higher PageRank, and I should stay away from anything with a PageRank of Zero.

That is why when I checked the home page of one of my sites AG Photo Art and Photography – Anchorage homepages suddenly dropped down from a PageRank of 2 to a 0 it hurt me pretty bad. I was almost certain that this would hit me hard in the SERPs, so the next thing I did was searched my site for the usual keywords, and to my surprise my listing was actually a position higher than normal. What does this all mean, is PageRank really that useless that a two point drop has no effect on my listing at all, or was this drop an artifical drop? Right now, I’m not sure. I do know that the only page affected is my homepage. Other pages on the site, such as my links page has actually gone up to a PageRank 3. Hopefully my loss will be readjusted on the next update, but until then, I will just have to listen to Google and try to forget about that worthless little green bar. My advice: take your PageRank with a grain of salt, you have to or little things like these will just mess with your head.