Over the next few days a lot of people are going to be trying to figure out why they have taken a PageRank dive since many of them will just start becoming aware of it today since this is something that has just happened.
The articles in my first post in this thread gave examples of what some have experienced but obviously didn't cover all of them.
One I've noticed is StatCounter. It has dropped from a PageRank of 10 to a PageRank of 6.
Search Engine Journal went from 7 to 4
Problogger went from 6 to 4
Search Engine Roundtable fell from 7 to 4
Forbes dropped from 7 to 5
Washington Post went from 7 to 5
Andy Beard went from 5 to 3
John Chow fell from 6 to 4
There are many more and more will become known as interested parties look more into this.
Based upon what is being said it looks as if those who have seen these drops don't all have the same thing in common so it doesn't look as if they all saw PageRank drops for the same reason. Some say they have never bought or sold links. Many of the blogs were part of a network that used a cross-linking.
A new theory on this that is starting to get some attention is that this was not a PageRank update but it was either an automatic or manual distribution of penalties.
PageRank fans will continue to follow this situation to try to figure out what has happened and if it might happen to them.
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