I started Virginia Breeze about six months ago. Its a WP.org blog and it has been growing slowly. It's a personal blog with photos and writing. Ninety-eight percent of it is original content. After about three months it was given a PR of 3.
At the same time I started VB I started a WP.com blog and pretty much transferred its content to VB. I wasn't sure I could manage a WP.org blog without totally screwing it up and sending it to the bottom of the ocean. I couldn't load a picture in a blog eight months ago.
Google gave that blog a PR of 5 after three months.
So things went along like that and I almost killed my blog. I was very grateful to have the WP.com clone and worked on it for a couple of weeks when VB mysteriously came back from the dead. And I have been working on it ever since with a lot more caution and care. I very gently upload plugins and disengage them if my blog even "coughs".
But I have given up my security blanket and have put hardly any content in it for the past three months. Google responded by taking away the PR of 5 and giving it a 4.
I also have a "Public Diary" that I started when my VB blog went into a coma. It's a WP.com blog and it has about ten or twenty posts in it. Total. Most of them are about what a fugging waste of time blogging can be. I complain about a cold I couldn't shake and basically fume for awhile.
Google gave it a PR of 4 too.
So now I have three blogs and they all have a PR of 4. I don't see that they have anything in common. PR is just a guess on someone's part. If it is a computer that makes these decisions then it needs a new software program. If it's young people who are mad at the world and have entry level jobs with Google.
Well, in that case, I understand perfectly.
That's Google For You
Its sounds like your borderline obsesses with PR, like so many others of us. I would be pretty disappointed to see a PR=5 turn into a 4. Overall, though, I think you should be happy to have three 4's. Google loves fresh content and backlinks. I personally feel that PR=5 or above is just icing on the cake of a whole lot of hard work.
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