Google Is Rolling a PageRank Update

I was expecting a PageRank update to happen in September, but it looks like Google waited till the month was over. It looks like it was a subtle update too, as the PageRank on the homepage of most of my websites has not changed.

I noticed it by taking a look at posts that had been published after the last update. They used to show “unranked,” but now they are showing some PR.

What about you, did the PageRank on your blog increased, or did it stay flat?

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70 Responses to “Google Is Rolling a PageRank Update”

  1. Sharninder on October 31st, 2009 8:34 am

    Flat for me. But then my traffic and incoming links etc. also haven’t changed much from the last time google updated their page rank. I really need to spend more time on the blog :-)

  2. Marko Saric on October 31st, 2009 8:39 am

    I went from 4 to 5 on my HowToMakeMyBlog. Was stuck at 4 for some 8 months so feels good to get higher finally.

  3. Oscar - freestyle mind on October 31st, 2009 8:44 am

    Since I started my blog in mid june, I had a PR of 0, but today I have a PR of 2, which I guess it’s nice.

  4. Kang Yudiono on Blogodolar on October 31st, 2009 8:56 am

    PR of my blog increased from 1 to 2. Surprisingly, my personal blog (at wordpress.com) got PR 4 now. It’s nice to me ;)

  5. Patrik on October 31st, 2009 9:18 am

    My site, Runnertalk.net, is a new site so it went from 0 to 2 :D And a blog I just sold had PR 6 and now when I have sold it went to 5, good timing.

  6. Available Domains Blog on October 31st, 2009 10:14 am

    The pagerank is flat for my blog.

  7. Brian on October 31st, 2009 11:03 am

    I jumped from a 0 to a 4. I am really surprised at this because of the low amount of traffic i receive in addition to only a moderate amount of incoming links.

  8. James Rose on October 31st, 2009 11:10 am

    My site went from a 3 to a 5… very happy!

  9. Laura on October 31st, 2009 11:15 am

    My Page Rank has stayed the same for my sites.

  10. connecticut man1 on October 31st, 2009 11:41 am

    Was a 5 for a longtime. Am still a 5 now. And that is even after months of barely posting on it since I have been helping more at a couple of bigger community Blogs. I am not even sure what actually turns the wheels on a page rank? Can’t be frequency of posting. lol

  11. Donny Gamble on October 31st, 2009 12:00 pm

    My page rank actually dropped from a 4 to a 3. This happened because it was a period of about a month where there were no blog posts made and the traffic decreased dramtically

  12. Don V. on October 31st, 2009 12:38 pm

    My website (http://www.dvanarelli.com) stayed the same at PageRank 4. My blog (http://www.dvanarelli.com/blog), which was at PageRank 3 for a long time, increased to PageRank 4. I’m happy about the increase, of course, but didn’t really understand why the website and blog had different PageRanks in the first place. I’ve read many blog posts that say PargRank doesn’t mean much, but I guess I really don’t believe it because I’m happy that my blog’s rank increased. Thanks for your great blog, Daniel, with consistantly interesting posts. I admire your efforts to reach your goal of “daily” blog tips.

  13. Ivan on October 31st, 2009 12:39 pm

    My site went from pr0 to pr3 :)

  14. Blaine Bullman on October 31st, 2009 12:40 pm

    Well as this PR update was my first, I went from a PR of 0 to a PR of 2 but what was really exciting is that my twitter profile went to a PR5 and some other strange PR updates on my inner pages but im happy with the update.

    You’re sitting at a PR6 which is awesome.

  15. Hesham on October 31st, 2009 12:44 pm

    All of my websites has no changes on the PR, have waited for this moment but nothing new here!

  16. Rick Regan on October 31st, 2009 1:22 pm

    I went from PR3 to PR4 on my homepage (my first update in almost seven months).

  17. Nancy D. Brown on October 31st, 2009 2:30 pm

    Yeah! My “What a Trip” Travels from Northern California went from a 4 to 5 page rank.

    I was a six a year ago, but all of the travel bloggers took a hit from Google for some reason. I guess they like to keep us guessing.

    http://www.writinghorseback.com is still not ranked as I just launched this equestrian lodging site. Come visit.
    Thanks for asking!

  18. Rajaie AlKorani on October 31st, 2009 2:36 pm

    A few of my sites went to PR4 and others to PR3, I’m happy :-)

  19. Hannah @CookingManager.Com on October 31st, 2009 3:12 pm

    Went from 0 to 4, very pleased.

  20. timethief on October 31st, 2009 4:33 pm

    The PageRank on both of my blogs remained the same at 4.

  21. Ahmed Hamouda on October 31st, 2009 5:53 pm

    blog changed from 0 to 2 and it is kinda new
    so am really happy too

  22. José on October 31st, 2009 6:13 pm

    Hi,

    Without posting any links, here are the results (blogs only)

    0 – 2 ; 2 – 3 ; 4 – 4

    Keep writing original and relevant content.

  23. Lee Ka Hoong on October 31st, 2009 11:18 pm

    I wait for PR4 on my main page for quite a few months, but it still remains the same at PR3. I have no idea how to push it to PR4.

    Regards,
    Lee

  24. Adam Singer on October 31st, 2009 11:25 pm

    Been at a 5 foreverrrrr. That jump to 6 is tough.

  25. aftercancer on November 1st, 2009 1:43 am

    Looks like my site, After Cancer, Now What is absolutely the same, PR4. I’m a little surprised but I understand the next step can take a while.

  26. Deron on November 1st, 2009 2:21 am

    My site dropped from 4 to 3. My both my backlinks and traffic has increased tremendously since the last update. So, not sure what’s going on with the drop.

  27. Melvin on November 1st, 2009 2:39 am

    Still it’s pr0 and I don’t know why. What do you think Daniel, my blog isn’t banned on Google, I dont do blackhat seo stuffs and I think there are some good number of relevant blogs linking to me but still no pagerank?

  28. V.C on November 1st, 2009 3:13 am

    My site went from 1 to 2.
    But the visitors decreased =.=
    It seems like I must update it every day, every time, as possible as I could so that I can get a nice traffic.

  29. Dana @ Online Knowledge on November 1st, 2009 3:29 am

    My blog PR increase. :D

  30. sid on November 1st, 2009 5:53 am

    Thanks to u i checked mine and i got pr3(tech-mania.com) from pr2 .. i am so so happy…

  31. sid on November 1st, 2009 5:54 am

    btw my visitors increased from 500 – 1.8k

  32. Ronblogger on November 1st, 2009 6:21 am

    My PR hasn’t changed yet as i am not starting to build links yet,though as i see to many sites most of them have gotten a higher rank

  33. I got PR 2- TY Daniel for update on November 1st, 2009 7:29 am

    Hey, Thanks Daniel
    My blog also went up from 0 to 2 on the back of some guest posts and blog comments. Retweeted it.

    Thanks Man

  34. Blogging Tips on November 1st, 2009 9:04 am

    The PR is flat for my site

  35. Firas Steitiyeh on November 1st, 2009 9:05 am

    From N/A to Zero!! I am pretty happy that it’s an indication that Google is aware of my blog!! next update I hope i will get a higher one!

    Best,
    Firas

  36. John Samuel on November 1st, 2009 10:13 am

    My page Rank increased from PR1 to PR2

  37. Een Rockstar on November 1st, 2009 10:36 am

    My blog PR drop from 3 to 2. As a result I’m not inactive for past few months

  38. Mr Curtains on November 1st, 2009 11:11 am

    Can I ask a basic question?!

    Whats the best way of checking my pagerank!?

    Any suggections

  39. Debojyoti on November 1st, 2009 11:48 am

    Don’t know why you deleted my comment. Maybe for long sentence in place of name. Thats fine. Anyways, this one is without any link, just need to ask something.

    Do, you use any plugin to show your email subscription and ebook box below the post? Can you show your readers?

    TY

  40. Teen Blogger on November 1st, 2009 4:07 pm

    I was hoping for some change, but my PR is still at 0. Looks like I have to continue building back links.

  41. Wayne Attwell on November 1st, 2009 5:59 pm

    No change to PR on my blog or site. Pity. Blog id very new so PR2 is fair, but need to generate more quality backlinks to my website.

  42. Damien Riley on November 1st, 2009 10:22 pm

    PageRank is irrelevant in determining value. These are Google’s words not mine. This is an excellent quote from:

    http://sites.google.com/site/w.....g#pagerank

    Q: My site’s PageRank has gone up / gone down / not changed in months!
    A: Don’t worry. In fact, don’t bother thinking about it. We only update the PageRank displayed in Google Toolbar a few times a year; this is our respectful hint for you to worry less about PageRank, which is just one of over 200 signals that can affect how your site is crawled, indexed and ranked. PageRank is an easy metric to focus on, but just because it’s easy doesn’t mean it’s useful for you as a site owner. If you’re looking for metrics, we’d encourage you to check out Analytics, think about conversion rates, ROI (return on investment), relevancy, or other metrics that actually correlate to meaningful gains for your website or business.

  43. Bob Bessette on November 2nd, 2009 1:34 am

    Hi,
    Thanks for asking but my page rank is flat. My Alexa ranking has gone up considerably so I was hoping for an uptick.

    Best,
    Bob

  44. Lia Qistina on November 2nd, 2009 3:14 am

    My blog PR still the same. Working hard on it.

  45. Anand Srinivasan on November 2nd, 2009 5:51 am

    Google’s screwed…First it says pagerank does not matter at all..then it takes my blog, which has been doing so well in terms of genuine authoritative backlinks and has slapped it down from 4 to 3..

  46. Anand Srinivasan on November 2nd, 2009 5:53 am

    And one another site of mine was as zero – in this period, I have got it linked by quite a few PR 6 blogs, got linked twice by a PR 8 and lo, it still stays at zero! strange..

  47. zeesu on November 2nd, 2009 7:34 am

    i am still having pr0.little sad about it.

  48. charson on November 2nd, 2009 10:18 am

    My page rank is still at 2. hoping it will change month since i’ve started building some backlinks.

  49. triindi on November 2nd, 2009 12:39 pm

    Flat for me,
    From PR 2 then PR 2 ^^

    you know? Pagerank is not everything and does not guarantee will get the appropriate place on the first page of google.

    Please see this:
    http://www.jirolu.com PR = 0
    check with the keyword: direktori
    jirolu.com will then ranked 3rd on the first page of google.com

    check with the keyword: free directory list
    jirolu.com will then ranked 15th in the google.com page

    How do you think?

  50. BWI on November 2nd, 2009 2:34 pm

    That really kicked in several days prior. I did see a little fine tuning going on on the 31st.

  51. Singapore web design company on November 2nd, 2009 3:21 pm

    Same for us. We managed to build some one thousand plus backlinks (verified by other backlink checking websites) but the pagerank remained the same. :(

  52. Josh on November 2nd, 2009 4:15 pm

    Thanks for posting this! Since I moved my site to its own domain in August 2009, I have been anxious to see whether 301 Redirects would maintain my PR4 ranking to a brand new domain.
    Thanks to your post I checked and indeed it worked!

    And my site’s homepage also went from 0 to 3, but I’ve gotten quite a few heavyweight PR5-PR8 links and broke a few news stories in that time, too.

  53. Keith Davis on November 2nd, 2009 5:38 pm

    Got back from a few days holiday and checked the Google PR of my sites… they have all gone up by 1.

    I now have one site with a PR of 4, which I am well pleased with.

    One of my sites is a new Wordpress site, just the front page and a single post… and it now has a PR of 2! Can’t be bad.

    Thanks for pointing out that Google have been busy… I thought that I had done something really clever… oh well.

  54. Michal on November 2nd, 2009 7:51 pm

    Hi Guys,

    got a question, I had a PR 3 and the last few week my site went up for the main keywords. But suddenly I got a PR 0, but the same positions in Google for the main keywords, some of them even better. Is there a possibility that the PR can still change in the next few days or something. How is this possilbe? Don`t have a clue why I went down to zero, when everything else looks so great.

    Thank`s for you help.

  55. DemoGeek on November 3rd, 2009 3:11 am

    With the last Page Rank update Google took me down a little bit and is still staying the same :(

  56. Roschelle on November 3rd, 2009 4:58 am

    My site is about 3 months old. A few weeks after I started blogging the bar went from gray to white (always an indication that Google’s working things out). Well like an idiot I changed my domain name…I know. So, the page rank bar went back to gray. Since the update a few days ago the bar is white….as is quite a few of the pages within my blog. So, perhaps when another update occurs I’ll be in for a pleasant surprise.

    My second blog did go from 0 to 3. :)

  57. Surender sharma on November 3rd, 2009 1:18 pm

    My blog is 3 months old and the page rank was 0.Soon it grows to 1 then 2 within a month and after 3 months PR is reached at 3.
    I am really thankful to Google for the changes made on my blog.

  58. Optimizare site on November 3rd, 2009 3:00 pm

    My man site remained at 0, but I had another 4 with the following changes: 3 to 2, 1 to 2 and 2 to 3, 0 to 1

    Since i noticed the PR dancing I’ll wait another 2 weeks to see how good or bad it will be.

  59. Oxbargain on November 4th, 2009 1:18 pm

    I was wondering when the page rank was going to change. I remain zero even though Alexa now ranks me 399,422. I publish several times daily in the past 2 months my blog has been online.

  60. zizzibaddi.com on November 4th, 2009 1:58 pm

    Something pretty weird down here. My PR was 2 and it dropped to 0 about 2 days ago but I do have more traffic and more backlinks. Moreover, I check the PR for a lot of other sites and I get n/a or 0 or very low PR. What is going on? :-)

  61. EverythingMom on November 4th, 2009 3:30 pm

    When we moved from one domain to another, we went from PR4 down to PR3, even with a 301 redirect.

    With the latest round, we are now up at a 5. Would love to bump that up even more, don’t we all… :)

  62. Optimizare Site on November 5th, 2009 7:16 pm

    @Oxbargain

    If you want to get a higher PR look for high PR sites, but with a few link on them, and related to your site content.

    Eg. If you have a dog shop try to get ink from dog blogs, magazines, …

    Best regards

  63. Optimizare Site on November 5th, 2009 7:19 pm

    @zizzibaddi.com

    Ceck in a few days,

    If after 2 weeks the PR is updating you still have the same (O) your site was downgraded in PR.

    Usualy when GG is updating the site PR is “dancing”.

  64. free on November 7th, 2009 11:00 am

    well, now my pagerank increased from 0 to 2. wow, im so happy !

  65. manikandan on November 7th, 2009 11:53 am

    hi my blog got PR 1.

    its a g8 joy for me to develop my blog……..

  66. Disney World on November 9th, 2009 7:33 am

    My site move to PR0 To PR3 and second site PR3 To PR4

  67. Zee on November 16th, 2009 2:14 pm

    Talking about pagerank. My PR1 would take a bit more time… :)

  68. Stuart on November 25th, 2009 2:10 am

    I just got smacked from 3 to 0! I don’t know what’s going on? My blog is all original articles. I don’t know what’s happening here?

  69. free on December 23rd, 2009 7:07 am

    Hello Stuart, check your webmasters central and note the errors of your website and re-optimize your website and finally do a reconsideration request of your website there. Thanks !

  70. oak computer desk on January 19th, 2010 2:36 am

    Hey Daniel, Not sure how old this post is but was wondering if you might be able to tell me when the next pr update will be? I haven’t found anyone that can tell me for sure, it is always at the same time?

    Thanks for the help,

    Mike

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