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Tuesday, May 6

Major Google PageRank Update!

Over the past few days, many webmasters and business owners have reported seeing an update in the PageRank of their websites; as displayed in the Google toolbar. I can also confirm an update has taken place with some of our newer pages registering a PageRank for the first time.

This PageRank update has created a huge stir amongst the search marketing industry, with many reporting that it's the largest PR update we've had for some time. There are a whole bunch of threads going on right now as well as conversion on Twitter about how the update has impacted various websites.

According to reports so far, the update doesn't appear to have impacted rankings too much, just the PageRank value shown in the toolbar. It's important to remember that while this value can give a good indication of your sites progress, the values from toolbar PageRank can be around a month or so old. Google uses real time PageRank values when calculating search results which it releases to the public a month or so later.

Many webmasters, who have had their sites penalized to a PR 0 in previous updates, are reporting small gains of 1-2 points with this latest update. If you've recently launched a new website it also might be a good idea to see how you fared. One of our new sites launched in early March got a PageRank for the first time, so the update must have pulled data from after this point.

As always share your PageRank changes via our blog comments!

Labels: Google

6 Comments

At 11:43 AM, KIM said...: We think that Pr it's losing effect in our google positions.

Probably , other parameters as location and domain lifetime are more important to raise positions.
At 2:34 PM, Rel Adviser said...: It seems the update from Google is more frequent than most people think.

I had a quite recent experience that one of my pages,
http://best-relationship-advice.com/Best-Relationship-Advice_Matchmaking-Article4.php
originally a PR2 for several months and suddenly dropped to PR0 a couple of weeks ago, and I made some changes in internal linking, then it went back to PR2 for several days, and today, I checked this page again, it goes back to PR0!

Please enlighten me.
At 8:12 PM, Anonymous said...: My link directory went from PR3 to PR0. Its almost 4 years old. I do not sell links and I never got a dime for a link. This must be a big Google mistake? My other link directory still has PR3. My ranking went from 5 way down to 70 +. Whats going on?
At 2:21 PM, Jim said...: There is some corrolation between PR and SERPS, but nothing to get excited about, unless you sell link or advertising space, why get uptight by the green bar?
At 5:13 PM, SEO said...: I think Google is still trying to repair damage caused by the dec/jan update. Well I hope so anyway!
At 9:14 AM, Serhiy said...: We have noticed a raise in PR from 5 to 6 on our site http://www.TranslationDirectory.com

But haven't noticed traffic raise or drop recently.

Btw, do you know if google uses only 10 grades of page rank for the search engine placements or more?

For example, when we see the rank of 6, maybe it is in fact 5.9 ? Or 6.3? What do you think?