: Your PageRank can drop for a variety of reasons outside of your direct control. For instance, if your PR is mainly coming from site X, and site X suddenly stops linking to you or loses

@Ogunnowo487

Your PageRank can drop for a variety of reasons outside of your direct control. For instance, if your PR is mainly coming from site X, and site X suddenly stops linking to you or loses its PR for some reason, then you will experience a PR drop.

That said, most of the time it's probably going to be something you did. For instance, if you link to a spammy, low-quality site or engage in some kind of unethical practice that Google catches wind of (e.g. PayPerPost a few years back). Some SEO practices may net you a rank increase in the short-term, but once Google changes their algorithm, you could lose that PR.

That said, if you can't "remember" whether you spammed anywhere, then you've probably been spamming, which builds low quality links and can itself lead to Google penalizing you for engaging in spamming.

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