What is the correlation between the SEOMOZ PR number and where my site is showing up in an organic search?

[gfiedel]

For years, our company placed 3 or 4 in an organic search on Google for the keyword I am inquiring about. A couple of months ago, we went down to number 15.

I then subscribed to SEOMOZ and began a concerted effort to improve our ranking for this keyword.

Slowly, our listing came up higher in searches and on our reports- back onto the first page #8. Our weekly SEOMOZ reports reflected this improvement, but then it dropped down again to page 2, #11.

My most recent report, this week, gave us a PR 8 for this keyword, but our listing is showing upon page 2, #11.

I do have my personal search and browser history disabled. I am unclear as to why there is this discrepancy.

[JarnoNijzing]

Hi there,

are you logged in to google when you search?

What keyword are you looking for? i could check here where you rank and it might give me a better idea (i need to know the website then).

There is no direct correlation between the two to my knowledge.

Hope to hear from you.

kind regards

Jarno

[CMC-SD]

I'm not sure what you mean when you say "My most recent report, this week, gave us a PR 8 for this keyword." Are you saying the ranking report put you in position #8, but you see yourself in position #11?

[gfiedel]

Thanks, Jamo.

I am not logged into Google when I search.

The key word is "web design Santa Barbara'

Interesting that there is no correlation because prior to this week's report the two were identical: PR # and our placement on Google, so I assumed it was one and the same.

[gfiedel]

Yes. Exactly. Yesterday, my ranking report dated 12/11/12 said PR 8 but I saw myself in position #11.

Today, 12/12/12, the page rank in the report has changed and is matching what I see when I search. It's #11 and my search is #11. The report on 12/11/12 says PR 8, today the report number has gone up to 11. I didn't realized that  there could be a lag time or that reports might change during the week. I thought the report was the report for its particular week and that to see updated info, one would have to wait for the next week for a new report. Has anyone else experienced this?