I have noticed an interesting trend over the past couple of weeks, a large amount of quality websites seem to have lost a lot of Google PR. I have seen pr9 and pr6 websites lose 2-3 pr levels for no real apparent reason, what is even more confusing is other sites dont really seem to be gaining much PR which begs the question, where the hell did the PR go?
I suppose it really dosent matter too much however since Google PR has been so abused over the years that its influence has decreased greatly. Now i always reckon its better to have high quality links from relevant and trusted sources rather than high pr sites.
But still it is always nice to see that little green bar grow and the fact that my pr has remained at 4 and yet i have trebled traffic mean that it dosent matter too much in the end, still a pr5 would be nice 
The sites you’ve been referring to in the first part of your post were probably penalized for some of the possible reasons such as link selling without rel no follow tag.
I also don’t like what google toolbar PR has become over the years.
Comment by webmasterovblog — July 26, 2008 @ 4:56 pm