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Google PR increase = links to site reset??
Hey everyone. Thanks for the help the other day, I think I have figured something out though.
A couple days ago I noticed a massive drop in traffic, and at first I thought it was Superbowl. Well, that was unlikely, and traffic is still down. I did some poking around and found that my main site went from PR0 to PR1. It's "links to my site" went from 57,000+ to 1.
I thought something happened, and checked my other newer site and found it went from 2800 links to site to 26.
People thought maybe I had gotten a Google penalty, but both my sites? even my newer site that gets almost no traffic? I looked into this and found that usually when people get a penalty they get a message as well about unatural links or whatever.. Well, I have not received any messages.
I just for fun went to check my newest sites' PR which was always 0, and found it is now PR2!, the index splash page was PR2, and the main page of that site is PR1.
Well, now that I found both my sites have been affected by this massive drop in links to site, and they have also both increased in PR, I think it may be related. I did some looking around and saw from lots of other peoples posts that when they had ranked up in PR, they also have links reset, and they slowly started coming back over the next couple weeks.
What do you guys think? Does PR change result in a "link to your site" reset in Webmaster Tools? From what I have seen so far, everything points to yes. Am I right?
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