Sigh!
Another
PR update, another disappointment for many, bewilderment for many others. I thought webmasters got over this whole
PR thing ages ago. Over the past year my
PR has dropped on my sites frmo 5 to 4 to sometimes 3, but the rankings have climbed steadily, as has the traffic. I've given up worrying about
PR.
They've evidently created much large bands for each level, My original site is a strong 4, so strong that many of the pages below it are a 4 as well (without strong ibls to deep pages). I've seen other mickey mouse sites with far less links counted by also a 4. Lots of pages are now grey.
Sure I use
PR to decide whether to take a link partner seriously, but that's about it.