Well if that's the case, why is it that so many sites are sticky about reciprocal linking with low to no PR sites? I've run into this rule several times in my link exchange travels and I thought that was the reason.

I also noticed that Lifesupporters.net went from PR 0 to PR 5, wow!

Lastly, the Lifesupporters.com page hasn't been down for any significant amount of time over the past 3 months as it's on a new webhost. I can see why Paul doesn't put much faith in Google PR, it really does seem to be a mystery sometimes.

Duke, let the PR mystery be mysterious. I know their game (no, I'm no king, but I've got a hunch, which has worked for over 4 years), but don't let it be YOUR game. Let YOUR game be, attracting visitors. And if you're not using a service such as http://public.tafmaster.com/, I would consider doing so.

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Originally Posted by Duke

Well if that's the case, why is it that so many sites are sticky about reciprocal linking with low to no PR sites? I've run into this rule several times in my link exchange travels and I thought that was the reason.

I also noticed that Lifesupporters.net went from PR 0 to PR 5, wow!

Lastly, the Lifesupporters.com page hasn't been down for any significant amount of time over the past 3 months as it's on a new webhost. I can see why Paul doesn't put much faith in Google PR, it really does seem to be a mystery sometimes.

A site being down is not the only factor that can make your PR go down, its just one of the possible factors, some links to your site which boost it to it previous url may have been removed and a number of numerous other reasons it could be down PR wise.

PR is not significant but like you said if you want to be able to trade links with some of the more powerful sites on the net you need to have a decent PR.

I'm kinda with Duke on this one, it seems to be because of his backlinks but who knows for sure? Here's an article I've read:

Google PageRank Update Analysis

Search Engine Journal has a useful post analyzing the latest Google PageRank Update in which they speculate as to why many sites have decreased in their visible PR whilst increasing their backlinks:

‘The most current PageRank update will undoubtedly cause a larger stir than usual in that many sites have shown drops in their visible PageRank while at the same time showing significant increases in their backlinks. This fact reveals that one of three things has occurred in this latest update:

1. Google has raised the bar on PageRank, making it more difficult to attain a high level, or

2. The way they are displaying their backlinks has changed, or

3. The way they calculate the value of an incoming link has changed.’

http://www.searchenginejournal.com/index.php?p=1913

Yes, it definitely something has change. Who knows what

Ovi

I was also wrong about Hobby-Universe's PR, it's actually PR 5 now, Fragtard is PR 3 and Lifesupporters.net is PR 5. In other words, huge change across all linked pages in the Network with the only negative move being to the page they all derive rank from, lifesupporters.com.

The reason I know they all got their PR from lifesupporters.com is because none of these other sites have links to anything but lifesupporters.com at this time.