Has anyone ever experienced this --- suddenly the PR on every page of your website - except the homepage - has suddenly disappeared?

That's what occured early this morning. I find this really alarming. Nothing has changed with the website itself. The link structure is the same. The PR used to be the same on every page in the whole site. Now, the only page with PR is the homepage, which has 5, but everything else is showing nothing.

On top of that, we've dropped from a comfortable 4th place on SERP's to a distant number 21 (Google).


Is this the evidence of the infamous G-penalty of some kind? The only backlinks we've strived for are search engines submissions (manual), and directories with categories of relevancy. No spamming or black hat techniques has ever been implemented. Or, have we fallen victim of the very point made by Phantom -- competitors on the SEO dark side.

Or, a bug in the system?

Scratching my head, perplexed...


(I posted this in another thread, but am rewording it here for clarification.)

(** amendment at 2:46 PM - site this was discovered on is www.bliley.com)