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I asked for specifics in the Google Webmaster forum as to why my Google Pagerank decreased from a 4 to a 2 and got the following response:

Google's internally stored, maintained and used PageRank is a measure
of the quality and quantity of inbound links to a page.

Toolbar PageRank, which is what we see, is a scaled conversion of
Google's internally maintained and used PageRank, which is likely a
large number, to a toolbar PageRank display which is not a large
number but instead, a value between 0 and 10. The conversion of
internal PageRank to toolbar PageRank is most likely logarithmic.

There is some discussion going around that one's practices regarding
the selling of links can effect displayed PageRank but unless you are
selling links, that doesn't apply.

If your PageRank went down, there are a number of possibilities :
1. the number of pages linking to your pages decreased.
2. links from some of the pages linking to your pages were somehow
devalued.
3. Google's conversion factor, from interal to toolbar display changed
4. Google may think you are selling links
5. some links were from sites considered to be selling links and those
links may have been devalued through the selling site's outgoing links
being devalued.
6. some combination of all or some of the above.

The real question is, has your traffic due to searches been
effected?

If not, toolbar PageRank is just a bunch of green bits that only mean
something to people misplacing value in something they shouldn't.

But, since toolbar PageRank is only a snapshot of your site's PageRank
at a given point in time, your traffic couldn't have been effected
since the data the toolbar PageRank update came from was a point in
time that was already in the past.

End response.

In the case of Moxie Drive, I think it was due to #1 and #2 because I did stop my service with paid link exchanges like GotLinks, so far seemingly not a target of the Google algorithm, but I am just being cautious to the tune of over 1,000 links. I do not have any paid links on my web pages that I know of at this point. I also manage my reciprocal links very carefully with Link Machine. I am trying to become more content focused rather than link and SEO focused.

I add #2 in this forumula because it seems that all the category pages of my article directory, Moxie Drive Expressions, that previously were a pr2 and now are a pr0, have lost all their pagerank. This I do not know why because there have been no changes to the article directory. I suppost that Google may be in the process of the
"Google Dance"?

It is like starting over with the linky love.