PageRank at 0? Huge PR drop!

This seems surreal. Dropping from PR3 to PR0 in a matter of hours isn’t something a webmaster expects. But that’s what has happened to Geekie.org and ALL of its subpages today (January 30, 2008); querying different datacenters return the same result — PageRank 0.

Strangely, this isn’t reflected in my Google Webmaster Tools dashboard, nor have I received any indication that my site has been banned from the Google index. As it stands, Geekie.org still shows up second for the search term “geekie” and almost all of my posts are available in Google Blog Search.

In such a case, one must ask, why?

According to several webmaster forums, a PageRank drop to 0 (zero, nil, nothing) for a site previously of high PageRank (such as PR5 or PR6) is indication of a Google PageRank update or change in the algorithm. Apparently, losing all of your accumulated Google PageRank is a normal part of such an update.

(Which means you have to lose it all before you can gain anything.)

Let’s hope that the loss is due to an update. If Geekie.org’s PR stays at 0, I’m going to be asking some serious questions: what have I done wrong?

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