Have you noticed a any changes in your website PR? As of yesterday I had two sites drop in PR from 4 to 3 I was a bit concerned initially but nothing has changed traffic wise or really in our listings. So what is all the fuss about and what was effected in this Update. Well I am not the Google Guru but I have done some searching and some research on the two sites that I lost page rank from and discovered something interesting.

Both of these sites have been heavily marketed with articles with the main directory being Ezinearticles for its PR6 standing. As of yesterday the sites I have mentioned no longer have any Google links in the index from ezine articles, so this explains immediately to me why the PR value had dropped on some sites and not others. I have marketed the sub pages of these sites through reciprocal linking and 3 way linking and these pages have maintained there PR. I how have sub pages with a PR 4 and the home page a PR 3 go figure.

I don't believe this has anything to do with ezinearticles as other authors are still enjoying a good standing in Google even my author Page is still listed no de-indexed. All I am doing here is explaining what has happened to my sites and what I discovered. All of these article links are still showing in the Search Engines for AlltheWeb, Yahoo and AltaVista.

I have also found that some of the web2.0 sites that did have bookmarks to my home pages also have vanished from the listing when checking the links to my sites. So once it has all been said and done I had 16 sites indexed in google linking to my home page today. I only have six. Whether this is part of the update or the update is still in progress who knows, and as usual it will all be sorted out in the Google Wash.