My Google Pagerank has suddenly dropped to 2 from 3 (I also have two other blogs which went up.. both were on 0, one now has a Pagerank of 1 and the other, 2). I found this strange as my site has been growing since it’s realise in August last year. I am getting more visitors, getting more backlinks and it is appearing in more and more search engines… so what’s happened?

I did some research on the web and the Google Pagerank ranking system.. it’s some sort of trade secret but there’s more than meets the eye.. it’s not simply a system on ranking your website but Google can penalize you if you link pages which they don’t like and also if you sell advertising.

 It seems that a lot of people have been affected, some people have dropped more than two Pagerank levels..

Anyway, I won’t ramble too much about it but if you’re interested in finding out a bit more, check out these links:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PageRank

http://www.webworkshop.net/google_faq.html

You can also check your PageRank across different Google servers by going here:

http://www.validrank.com