The short version of the story is we lost the PageRank 3 that we worked hard to obtain last year. It was nobody’s fault but ours. We moved to new a web hosting company, we forgot to back up our content, and, after we couldn’t restore our old posts about PageRank, we posted a couple articles that were totally unrelated to PageRank. Now, we’re starting again.

It is important to note though that despite our loss of PageRank, we are still ranking very well for the keywords pagerank domains. Does this prove that PageRank has nothing to do with search engine rankings? Maybe.

Back to our PageRank issue. How long will it take us to regain PageRank? Hopefully by the next PageRank update. We’ll update you as soon as there’s any PageRank movement on the site. Stay tuned.

A couple of weeks ago, we started moving our Web sites to a new Web hosting provider. I thought we had already backed up everything — but I was wrong. When we restored the WordPress database for page-rank-domains.com, it was empty. I didn’t have time to write new posts for page-rank-domains.com, so we posted a couple of non-PageRank related articles (I was afraid we’d lose our PageRank 3 if I left the site empty for too long).

This morning, I remembered to check on this site. I checked the PageRank; it was still PageRank 3. And then, I checked the search engine positioning for the keywords “pagerank domains”. Alas! We were nowhere to be found! Before the Web hosting change, we were in the number one or number two position.

So there you have it — my own personal experience on nameserver changes. Again, it does not affect your PageRank or SERPs or SEO. But, if you change your site content to something unrelated, your SERPS and SEO will most likely suffer.

How do we fix it? I think I will do these:

1. Delete the unrelated content.
2. Write content that is related to the original topic – PageRank Domains.

I’ll start with this post. Now let’s see how long it will take for page-rank-domains.com to go back to the top position for the keywords “pagerank domains”. I’m keeping my fingers crossed.