Confirmed: Google PageRank Update in Progress

It looks like the PageRank drops that we reported a couple of days ago (read Google Changing the PageRank Algorithm?) were indeed penalties being distributed to specific blogs.

The reason for the penalties it not totally clear yet, but Darren said that he got confirmations from two sources at Google that the penalties were being given exclusively for paid links, and not for cross-linking inside blog networks.

That would explain why many blogs recovered from the drop, including Problogger itself. Supposedly these blogs were wrongly associated with paid links, and Google reversed their PageRank to the normal level after realizing that.

The Google datacenters are still reporting scattered data, so it is difficult to know what will be the PageRank of some sites involved in the previous penalties (Andy Beard is trying to keep track of them).

The good thing is that most websites are actually seeing the PageRank update now, and many are going up. My other blog Daily Writing Tips went from PR0 to PR5, while Daily Blog Tips stayed PR5.

What about your blog, has it gained PageRank?

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56 Responses to “Confirmed: Google PageRank Update in Progress”

Ankur Jain on October 27th, 2007 1:33 am

Yes I have also seen an increase in my PR from 0 to 2 on mySoftware Testing Blog. Here i would like to mention that I have never participated in any kind of link exchange/submissions and have just allowed the PR algo to take its own course through my content
Health on October 27th, 2007 1:43 am

my body and spirit blog has moved form no PR to 4 (first PR update for the blog)
Marko Novak on October 27th, 2007 1:53 am

Novak’s blog pagerank increased from PR0 to PR4.
Health on October 27th, 2007 2:12 am

there is something strange about this PR update-I made a blog just to own the domain and use it later,I haven`t made any link building or anything and yet it has a PR5
Shankar Ganesh on October 27th, 2007 2:35 am

My blog jumped from PR 0 to PR 5. Thank God I didn’t sell any links on my blog. Learning from this entire episode, I don’t think I’ll be selling links in the future either.
redwall_hp on October 27th, 2007 2:41 am

Cool! I think I may have been the first to notice this.
http://www.webmaster-source.co.....-pagerank/

By the way, my blog’s PageRank went from a solid “1″ (which it had been for a long time) to a “3″ now. It had been a three because of the way I was utilizing my domain before I started blogging (it was just a big list of useful websites…with barely any link backs). I installed Wordpress on the domain instead about 5 months ago and have been blogging there since (I’ve been blogging for about 11 months, and I’ve been a webmaster for 3 years).
Raj on October 27th, 2007 3:19 am

Thanks Daniel, it’s all your guidance on blogging.

My blog, MT Herald Dot Com, jumped to PR4 within 3 months of inception.
Daniel on October 27th, 2007 3:25 am

Raj, I am pretty sure that is your hard work and not my guidance :).
Raj on October 27th, 2007 3:43 am

I wasn’t knowing anything about blogging a few months ago until I landed on your blog accidentally. It was all your pepups and guidances that made me march. Keep up the good work and we are there to follow you.
Ben on October 27th, 2007 3:48 am

This page rank stuff is weird. My wordpress powered blog is now rated higher by page rank then my Blogger powered blog. The Blogger powered blog gets at least 10 times more traffic and has many posts in the top10 for Google search. Go fiqure. Guess I’ll just write content and let the SEO geeks worry about page rank.
Eli on October 27th, 2007 4:24 am

Mine went up one point.. though Google still owes me 1 more from its previous penalties…
Zybron on October 27th, 2007 5:02 am

Pleasantly so, from 0 to 4. Of course, that hasn’t changed the traffic visiting my site, nor do I expect it will. The one thing that I’ve learned from the pagerank hullabaloo is that it doesn’t really seem to matter at all.
Fahmishah on October 27th, 2007 5:16 am

I went from 3/10 to 4/10.yes!
precious on October 27th, 2007 5:31 am

My teenage cousin’s went up from 0 to 5, then dropped back to 2. Mine went from 0 to 3 and stayed there.
Mike Panic on October 27th, 2007 6:56 am

Randomn3ss has dropped to a PR3 from PR4, I sold one text link, once, for one month, back in March I think. O well. I’m so over page rank this and Technorati that - I’ll focus on creating content, driving traffic in and getting other sites to link to me more.
Jeremy Steele on October 27th, 2007 7:18 am

Mines up to PR 4 it seems. Not like it really matters though.
Bitten on October 27th, 2007 7:38 am

One of my blogs went from pr 3 to pr 2 and I wonder why: I certainly haven’t been selling links or anything like that.

My other blog went from zero to pr 4. That was quite nice surprise.
Sean P. Aune on October 27th, 2007 7:39 am

I’ve gone from PR3 to PR4. Not sure how I did it, but I did.
Tejvan Pettinger on October 27th, 2007 8:12 am

Mine went from PR0 to PR3. A little disappointed because I’d hoped for PR 4.

This has made me remove my banner ads for text link ads and linkworth text link ads - even though I haven’t sold any text links on the blog.

Now I will have to find some new advertising - Maybe google adsense
Crenk on October 27th, 2007 9:07 am

I have seen my site http://www.crenk.com go from a PR1 to a PR2. I think I am still wrongly getting penalised by Google for either text links or link farms, but not sure which one. Most PR predictors think i should be on a PR4, but no such luck yet!
charles on October 27th, 2007 10:17 am

Mine shot up to PR3 from PR0. I guess this matters to PPP bloggers.
David Airey on October 27th, 2007 11:37 am

After my recent ranking penalty, which was reversed, it was good to see an increase from PR4 to PR5.
Keith Dsouza on October 27th, 2007 1:23 pm

I gained 1 from 3-4
WalterL on October 27th, 2007 1:29 pm

Mine blog also lifted to PR4 recently. It was unexpected because I hadn’t any strong back links. This suppose a theory that google are also accounting content as a measure of website’s quality.
Kumaran on October 27th, 2007 1:39 pm

Hi

I’m one of those people… My site http://www.itsyourip.com Page rank has gone from 1 to 4

I recently added Blogrush…Is this a problem?
Matthew K. Tabor on October 27th, 2007 2:49 pm

I recently added BlogRush and not only survived Google’s carnage of late, but jumped up to a PR 5.
Emma on October 27th, 2007 4:46 pm

Both of my sites went from PR 0 to PR 4. First PR for each of them.
Vikram on October 27th, 2007 5:32 pm

Same here daniel!
3 Months since inception, 2 months since I went from Blogger to WordPress and Now a Whooping Jump of Page Rank From PR0 to PR 4.
Thats why I advocate everyone to use WordPress as its is “THE MOST” SEO Friendly Blog Software there is!

How many have heard a PR 0 to PR 4 jump in just 2 months!

Follow these two Rules and You would be rewarded:

1)Use WordPress

2)Dont try to GAME Google

And Voila, Next PR Update, you would be the King of PR !

I guess am just “PR” High!!
Ramkarthik on October 27th, 2007 5:36 pm

I got a PR 5 from PR 0 in three months. Really happy about it. And Daniel I think your blog will get a PR7. Good luck.
Angela on October 27th, 2007 6:16 pm

Wow, looks like a lot of blogs jumped up from 0. My newest blog is at a PR of 0 and it hasn’t budged, it’s a little less than 2 months old. My older blog is a PR 3 and that hasn’t changed either.
Ramkarthik on October 27th, 2007 7:22 pm

Angela, your blogs haven’t got updated yet. There are many blogs which have not got the update. Yours might get it soon.
Brian Auer on October 27th, 2007 8:21 pm

I got bumped up from a 4 to a 5 this time around.
damselseo on October 27th, 2007 9:01 pm

I am so happy for this PR update because all of my blogs went up.From PR 0 to 3..hehhe!!!
Vikram on October 28th, 2007 1:21 am

Congratulations All of you guys! The lesser known Bloggers are really getting a Good PR Jump this time round!

Daniel, I am sure your PR would jump up. DBT is an authoritative Blog!

All the Best!
Daniel on October 28th, 2007 3:18 am

I was expecting a PR 6, but looks like it will stay at 6.

Hopefully on the next one!
arctic on October 28th, 2007 4:21 am

My blog went from PR0 to PR5 either. ^_^
CompuWorld on October 28th, 2007 6:09 am

yeah..the update is taking place..

I have PR3 and my URL is just 2 months old. I guess the reason is that I migrated all my posts from blogger to wordpress and this helped me earn good backlinks quickly..

I promise never to think about paid links ever
Niralan Bobalan on October 28th, 2007 6:55 am

Today when I checked my google pagerank, I was shocked. It was an increase from pr 2 to pr 5. I didn’t expect it at all. I thought that my blog will remain at pr 2 or maybe increase to pr 3. I am just shocked!
Matt on October 28th, 2007 8:32 am

One of my blogs went up from 2 to 3. But another went down from 3 to 2. That last one had a post in it offering sponsored posts.

Maybe they picked that up?
Vikram on October 28th, 2007 9:48 am

That might me possible Matt, however blatant selling of links is what Google penalized Bloggers and website for. Sponsored Reviews are a part of it, but its still unclear. Just one post should not make a difference, I guess.

Like Andy, I have written a Post of Page Rank Update and Possible reasons for Page rank Drop. It is based on Daniel’s list of TOP 25 Blogs about Blogging.

What do you think Daniel? What do you think are the possible causes for the PR Drop?
Alpesh Nakar on October 28th, 2007 1:46 pm

I have taken a drop from 4 to 2 and my traffic has gone up! Weird.

I do use TLA, which I might consider in the coming weeks.
seeker on October 28th, 2007 9:54 pm

I promise never to think about paid links ever
unclewilco on October 29th, 2007 3:22 am

My blog up from 0 to 4

The shed site its part of down from 5 to 3
Symbian on October 29th, 2007 4:55 am

My Blogspot blog got PR5! Now I as cool as Forbes.com! And cooler than TUAW!
Chester's Home Remedies on October 30th, 2007 7:30 am

One of my sites went from PR0->PR3. Not to bad for just writing about what I care about and not for SEO. I just started a new site and I hope I don’t have to wait 5 months for the next PR update.
Care Bear Kids on November 14th, 2007 7:29 pm

The whole page rank thing is just crazy these days!!!
Your Natural Remedies on November 14th, 2007 7:29 pm

I had TLA in my side bars and I think it really hurt me.
SeoTrader on January 22nd, 2008 8:46 am

I have just added new tool to check all Google DataCenters for PR here.
sunty singh on April 17th, 2008 1:57 am

the PR 0 factor is screwing up things like anything, well somehow some of the pages of my webiste has been given a zero page ranking like

http://music.fullorissa.com

http://websearch.fullorissa.com

could someone say me why has this happend? m worried abt it
sunty singh on April 17th, 2008 1:59 am

hey hi seo trader good tool for checking the PR brother keep up…
Jeremy on April 29th, 2008 7:25 pm

My blog still has a PR0 … I’m bummed. My blogger blog has a higher pagerank yet this blog is incredibly better. URG….