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Its kind of weird. i used to have a pr of 1 and about 100 visits day. in the 13rd 14th and 15th of this month i had about 6times more traffic in some parts of the day and my page rank increased to 2 or 3. now. i have page rank 0 and low traffic again. i read in some other forums people experiencing the same things. Did u notice that?

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Good catch, — and thanks for the heads up, . As notes, Google can behave unpredictably. Below is a focused checklist to help you tell whether you saw a temporary toolbar/referral blip or a real indexing/ranking problem, and what to check next.

  • Check analytics for the exact timestamps, landing pages and referrers. A short, deep spike tied to one referrer or country usually means a campaign or spam/referral noise, not a real rank change.
  • Verify indexing with site:yourdomain.com and check individual pages with cache:yourpageurl. Lots of missing pages or very old cache dates point to indexing problems.
  • Look in Google Webmaster Tools / Search Console for messages, manual actions, crawl errors, or sudden drops in crawl rate. Those will tell you if Google flagged something.
  • Inspect robots.txt, meta robots (noindex), and canonical tags after any recent site or CMS change. Accidental noindex or a bad canonical can kill traffic fast.
  • Review server logs for 5xx errors and Googlebot patterns at the times of the drop. A server outage or blocked IP can make pages vanish from results.
  • Check recent backlink activity — big gains or big losses can temporarily reorder results.
  • Remember toolbar PageRank is not a live signal; use real clicks, Search Console data and rank checks in incognito to judge impact.

If things do not normalize in a week or two, post sample landing pages, time windows and anonymized analytics and we can walk through a deeper audit.

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Member Avatar for stymiee

Google is constantly in flux. Sometimes it is just more noticeable than others. This doesn't appear to be an exception.

Member Avatar for Dani

I dunno, I noticed a DRASTIC decrease in my traffic from the serps as of the beginning of Nov.

Member Avatar for stymiee

Maybe hindsight will show this to be a big one. So far no one is talking about that, though.

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