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I normally check my site's page rank every month and last month i had a pagerank of 5 but now when i checked my sites pr it had gone down all the way to 0? what do you think happened? did google have an update? but what's weird is my search engine reffered traffic is still the same.

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Several replies (for example , and , and who linked a DaniWeb writeup) pointed toward Panda as the culprit. That is one possibility, but a toolbar PageRank drop to 0 often means something different. The visible PageRank value is a separate, infrequently updated metric (the toolbar/checker value) and can show 0 because of a refresh glitch or because Google stopped reporting a cached PR — it does not always reflect live indexing or organic traffic. Given reported steady referral traffic, the site’s visibility may be intact even if the toolbar shows 0.

Quick diagnostic checklist:

  1. Check Google Search Console (formerly Webmaster Tools) for any messages, indexing status, crawl errors, or manual penalty notices.
  2. Run a site:domain.com search and inspect cached pages to confirm pages are indexed.
  3. Review the backlink profile for sudden spikes in low-quality links or unnatural anchor text; use multiple backlink providers.
  4. Audit site content for thin, duplicate, or scraped pages (Panda-style signals). Consolidate or improve pages and use canonicalization or 301s where appropriate.
  5. Verify robots.txt and meta robots tags to ensure pages weren’t accidentally blocked.

Recovery and next steps: if a manual penalty exists, document link removal efforts and use the disavow tool plus a reconsideration request. If signals point to low-quality content, prioritize improving or removing thin pages and increasing original value. If diagnostics show no penalties and indexing is normal, treat this as a toolbar/metric anomaly and focus on content, user experience, and acquiring higher-quality, relevant links — the visible PR will only change when Google updates that metric.

Note the points made by about low-quality links and about the value of niche, high-quality links; both aspects matter. Prioritize Search Console and Analytics signals over the toolbar PR number.

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Member Avatar for indiarajasthan

Where was you man ?
Have you not listen about google Panda Update till now ?

Member Avatar for pgmco

Keep doing SEO and your PR will go up. Make sure you are doing white hat ethical SEO.

Member Avatar for limohire

don,t worry, use white hat seo techniques and work regularly, your website PR will be increased.

Member Avatar for lifeplayer

recently google didn't updated you should try to other browser. i think its not possible decrease pr5 to 0

Member Avatar for skseo

one of my blog increase its pr 0-2 on this new updates in google.

Member Avatar for sgtechin

Pr of any site can change without the official PR update. There may be many reasons 1 may be too much links from low quality sites.

Member Avatar for nancy5

The main reason is link coming from high quality niche sites.

Member Avatar for liveindiantv

These all happen because of panda upadate

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