Sometimes, whatever you do and however you follow the webmaster guidelines, you just don’t understand the outcome from Google.
I just discovered that my blog has turned PR6. But it’s not the URL that I’ve always been using — i.e. http://www.yugatech.com/blog — that one is still PR5.
So which one is it? Check out the PR6 results for http://yugatech.com/blog/ here. All the rest — http://yugatech.com/blog and http://www.yugatech.com/blog/ remains at PR5 (mind the leading slashes). Now, how did that happen when is something I can’t understand myself.
So I say forget about PR.
Have a little trouble deciphering what you meant to point out, Abe. All the examples you seemed to type were the same. I’m not sure how you can add a ‘leading’ slash … all properly formatted URLs have two and only two, some people think that a trailing slash after a subdirectory such as mysite.com/blog/ versus mysite.com/blog makes a difference but it doesn’t really.
As far as the page rank changes I suggest everyone add www.mattcutts.com to their daily read … he has pointed out that Google is now putting out some daily PR changes compared to the monthly (or even less frequent) ones they were putting out.
I’ve just noticed my PR went to 6 from 5 yesterday—and you even have a lot more backlinks! I’ve just checked the link you gave regarding your PR6 URI but I think it went back to PR5 again—crazy indeed.
Agreeing with hoop.
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I wonder if setting the preferred domain at google sitemaps will fix it? or was that already set? :D
>>Diagnostic>>Preferred Domain