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I have mortgage website that I ran a pr future update and it show my website with a pr 7 it now a pr 5, how close are these tools of being correct?

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Several people in this thread (notably , and ) noticed wildly different PageRank readings across tools and datacenters. That is expected. A short, practical explanation and checklist will help decide whether the change is a transient measurement artifact or something you need to act on.

PageRank shown by toolbars/checkers is a rounded, sampled snapshot of an internal link-weight number. The public value is coarse (logarithmic and discretized), updated on Google’s schedule, and can be cached differently by different datacenters — so small timing or propagation differences can look like big swings. A two-point drop is not just two clicks: it usually reflects a significant change in measured link equity because of the scaling and rounding.

Quick troubleshooting checklist:

  • Check Search Console for manual actions, crawl errors and index coverage; look for recent messages.
  • Compare organic traffic and search rankings in your analytics before trusting the toolbar number. Traffic changes matter more than the PR digit.
  • Audit recent site changes: redirects (301 vs 302), canonical tags, robots.txt or noindex mistakes, domain/subdomain moves, CMS upgrades.
  • Run a backlink audit for lost or removed high-value links, sitewide link removals, or sudden drops from major referrers.
  • If you suspect spammy inbound links, only use a disavow after confirming a manual action or clear negative signals; disavow is a final step.

Practical next steps: log dates and evidence, monitor traffic and rankings rather than the PR number alone, and focus on content and link quality if the drop persists. Echoing ’s caution about relying on single tools and ’s observation about update timing, treat toolbar PR as a noisy signal — useful for historical context, not as a sole diagnosis.

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Member Avatar for stymiee

They aren't accurate at all. They just make up numbers. You shouldn't ever bother using one.

Member Avatar for Jhon100

I see changes on my webs. But results are differents on datacenters, 12 datacenters show pr5 and 6 datacentes shor pr4

The results are definitive?

Member Avatar for stymiee

The results are still in flux and will be for a while.

Member Avatar for Jhon100

one day, two days..?
More things. Daniweb has a page rank 6, when a few days ago had 7.

Member Avatar for stymiee

More likely a couple of weeks

Member Avatar for Harry smith

Google update is still going on and there would be fluctuation due to fetching of data different data-centers.
My site's PR has raised from 6 to 8...:)

Member Avatar for dss

I think google PR is now updated.
I just got updated pr of my three websites.

I got p2 on my two websites from pr0.

Thanks

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