I was running my website stats (using the bestest tool in the world Market Samurai )when I noticed something really odd. This blog’s Google Page Rank had taken a drastic tumble, from 4 to zero. I silently went crazy inside. WTF had happened? Sure I hadn’t been posting as much as I sometimes do but apart from that there had been no change to blog itself. I had never seen a blog just fall off the ranking like that without something drastic happening..but I had made no changes that would make such a drastic thing happen.
I check backlinks…still around 6000 incoming links and no major drop there at all. Steady as a rock actually.
So I then spotted something that just DID NOT MAKE SENSE.
Google had only 1 page indexed for this blog. I let loose a string of OMGs and WTFs. 1 page!!!…Google was WRONG it had to be WRONG, how could I go from several hundred pages of indexed and backlinked content- to 1 page?
Before I tell you the answer I really have to point out a very important point. If I wasn’t tracking my stats using the handy dandy awesomest web stats tool in the world – Market Samurai – I wouldn’t have had a clue anything was wrong. Soon my site will be falling off the #1 spot for “Allison Reynolds” and I would be tearing my hair out blaming Google for it’s recent change in algorithm and my site would have just…disappeared out of the search results. If you rely on your website for your income then you, or whoever does your blog work MUST use Market Samurai to ensure something like this doesn’t happen you you.
So what was it that caused the problem?
Stay tuned for tomorrow’s post to find out. You can take a guess in the comments section if you like (apart from Brent Hodgson who I told the answer to when I figured it out 
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Planned and executed my exit from the corporate world. Walked away with a 6 figure payment to boot.
There has not been a full Google toolbar update but I am hearing complaints from all over regarding people who have lost PR. What I am seeing is lots of pages going to PR0 whether up from n/a or down. That said, many of the pages that are now PR0 should be much higher so I’m confident that the changes for most people are not from some sort of penalty.
While I can’t explain what has happened in the past few days, I can say we’re not yet due for an update since one just happened in April.
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This is kind of alarming. I am a little late seeing this post, now I have to go find the next post to find the answer…
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Losing pagerank is never fun, Google can be really irritating sometimes!