Google Just Updated the Nominal PageRank
I was expecting it to happen early in January 2009, but the Mountain View folks were faster. The nominal PageRanks started changing yesterday, and by today you should already be seeing the updated values.
I am pretty happy with the new numbers. Daily Blog Tips remained a PR6, while Daily Writing Tips went up from PR5 to PR6, and TechCult went up to PR5.
How about you, did your PageRank increase?
Daniel Scocco on December 31, 2008
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Went down to 3 from 4
http://www.webli.st as most of you know (because i think that minimal are those who know it) is less than a month old and it just had a PR1
which is a pretty good and impressive for me!
Thanks
Firas
I don’t know if it is a mistake or not, but my new blog that I started in late October, jumped from PR0 to PR4. I was kind of hoping for PR1 but this really surprised me.
Thanks for the heads-up!
My PageRank was 1, and today when I checked (after reading your post) it had jumped to 3! I’ve been blogging for only 4 months and to be honest don’t really know how PR is calculated or why it matters. I do know that a bigger number is supposed to be better, so I like the new PageRank already!
My PR jumped from 2 to 3. The site is 6 months old.
gosh! went down from 2 to 1:(
My eco gadget site jumped from PR2 to PR5, and my daily eco tips site jumped from PR3 to PR4. A couple of my sites dropped. But basically everything increased where I’ve been actively link building. It’s not that important to me, but it does serve as an indicator that my link building efforts are worthwhile.
My blog Aytemir.com went from 0 to 2 in 4 months.
I’m kinda surprised and impressed, that this can be achieved with the lill’ effort I’ve put in it.
Imagine what you could achieve…with more time and energy!
Sorry for the ‘double post’, but how reliable is Google PageRank anyway?
I mean I’ve checked it also for our company blog http://bloggingaboutoracleapplications.org/, which is very technical and niche, so we only have 2 thousands visitors a month tops. And a dozen backlinks, but a PageRank of 3?
Never been dugg or something like that…so is a PR of 3 not too high?
Only explanation I can think of is that we do get backlinks from Oracle subsites like their blog, forum and wiki.
Anyone any ideas about this?
I never checked my PR before (I just started the website 2 weeks ago) but it’s not PR2. Good start I guess
Update 2 to 3 for me (bit under 6 months total).
PS TechCult rocks.
Daniel,
I jumped from 0 to PR 4.Am quite happy to get 4,because my blog is just 3+ months old.
Every one got good rank i guess.
How do we know when the page rank update is complete..?
I have some quality PR5 backlinks but I dont see any change in my PR yet
I am very happy.Yes, got PR5 from 0:)
My PageRank went up on one site and down on two. How often does it change?
How do I tell my page rank?
@ Jennifer
Use http://www.prchecker.info or GoogleNeedle.com
Thats good, Else Google for Page Rank Checker and use any of the tools.
I didn’t see any changes in any of my sites.
I am not happy. One of my blogs declined from 6 to 5, another - from 5 to 4. All the rest kept their PR.
Jumped from 3 to 4. Other two went from 0 to 2 and are pretty new. Yea!!
My blog is still PR4 while my web1.0 site (http://www.ozone3d.net) seems to have jumped from PR4 to PR5…
Went from 2 to a 3 - but when my blog was on WordPress.com it was up to a 5. After the switch to WP.org, even though the content’s the same (plus more of it) I’ve been stuck at 2 for quite a while. ??
My home page went from PR0 to PR2, and my “popular” articles (popular for me being 5-7 search hits a day) went from PR0 to PR1.
My blog is 7 weeks old and I have little to no backlinks as far as I can tell, so I am happy!
Google sucks.
My blog got PR0 although it’s new and was made in October 2008.
I’m actually really confused. I’ve hardly blogged in the last two months since my site actually crashed and I lost everything I had built up for a year. And yet this month I have a PR of 5.
Any chance something could be a bit jacked up? Cause it’s extremely surprising and confusing.
I went from 0-3 since late September, so 4 months. I was hoping the update would come later… ah well.
@Arun, wait a couple of days to be sure.
@Brian, every three months or so.
@Jennifer, you need to download the Google toolbar or the Search Status extension for Firefox.
My page rank went down to ‘0″ from 3. No idea why?
I”ve got many incoming links to my blog specially from the same niche!!!!!!!!!!! wonder why??? any idea?
went from zero to 3 , this is a new blog .
Im at 3, not sure where I was before but my blog is only about 1 month old so I wont complain.
My blog was started in October. I just went from a page rank of 0 to a page rank of 2. Next stop 3 or 4?
Daniel,
I have a question:
How do we buy and sell domains?
I have read that your buy domains and sell them at a higher rate, how is that possible.?
Cheers
Arun
AjayDSouza.com and Techtites.com remained at 4
My other site SirConanDoyle.com is stuck on 2
SeanPAune.com remained at 4 (I swear it is never going to move), but StarterTech.com went from a 2 to a 3, so I am very happy.
Yeah, my PR went up from 3 to 5. Woo hoo.
But what does it mean if most blogs move up? There are still only 10 results per page.
Obviously I don’t understand the importance of this. I had a look at some major sites and here is what I found.
Amazon - 8
NewEgg - 7
Graphics.com - 4
My site - 4
Bloglines - 9
Lifehacker - 7
As far as this rating I am on the same level as graphics.com. Amazon is 8? And Google of course is 10.
My store (4) and company blog (3) both had no PR change on the main page but many smaller pages, like product categories, now have Pr 2 and 3 where they had none before. But plenty others are still at 0, and the correlation is strongly in favor of my older categories, not the bestselling or most often updated categories. I hope that simply indicates that the process isn’t done yet.
@Arun, we will cover that on the project I am launching early in January
Pagerank stayed the same. Was expecting it, because I spent most of my time trying to get subscribers.
Hal, it would be funny to see Google anything less than a 10.
From 0 to 2
*squeels* I got a PR4!!!
*dances around happily*
I thought I was doomed to stay at PR2 forever! But I fairly big site in my niche republished a few of my posts, with 2 link backs in each one (one to post and one to the site). It greatly increased my exposure.
I also went from 2 to 4 on another of my blogs, and from 1 to 2 and my personal blog.
It looks like all my hard work is finally paying off!
Still sitting on PR3, though my http://www.imwiththeband.com blog went from PR1 to PR3.
I got a PR1!
I’ve had three sites go up and none go down
My Pagerank I still 3, in December 2008, in the new year I have not check again, if there are no changes?
Hopefully I can ride:)
My new Blog TipsBlogger.Com moved from PR0 to PR2 !
My site - PSDtoWordPress - went from 0 - PR5 in 2 months!
I was expecting PR4… but stayed at PR3. Anyways, the good news is that I got PRs for more than 1/3rd of my posts and all my posts and pages are indexed by Google
Went from PR0 to PR1, but mine is a new blog. Hope to see a PR3 in the next update.
my site http://www.hotcute.cn went from 2, but my site only 1 moth
What the? My went from a 3 to “unranked”, does anyone know what that means??? Is that a zero? If so, that stinks! My Alexa rank is around 500,000, so hopefully that is wrong…?
My website PageRank increased from “3″ to “4″, but my blog, which is connected to my website at http://www.dvanarelli.com/blog, stayed at a “3″. Up to now, both the website and blog have always had the same PageRank. Why did the PageRank of the website increase but not the PageRank of the blog? Anyone know?
By the way, thanks for notifying your readers of the Google update. I read it first here!
The PR system was designed to keep people in a rat race. I don’t recommend obsessing over it.
My blog remained a PR2. No news - good news
@dondv - Every page within your site is evaluated individually with PageRank, hence the name, otherwise it would be called SiteRank.
All it means is that Google is seeing your homepage as being a higher authority compared to your blog. It is no big deal, PageRank is not really very meaningful these days. It is really just a number to brag about.
Mine stayed at 4.
Congratulations with the numbers. Mine stays as 0 because I have a few text links sold in my site but I removed it now.
Happy New Year Daniel and everyone
Mine stay at 4 which was cool considering
I’m do follow and followed tons of links so I’m Happy
thats 6 is looking tight
Peace
Stumbled
Less than 50 days blogging and my page rank is PR4 already. I could not believe it.
http://www.whatsmellsnow.com
Yuppy! I just moved my blog to a new domain name 2 months ago.. happy to see i got a PR2
I got PR 2 already. Just at less two months. I believe that Google did it right. http://kangnawar.com
My blog http://www.def.lt jumped to PR 3, from PR 2.
Well, my web store remained the same, but my blog went from PR2 to PR3, so I’m totally happy!!
my blog from 1 to 3
I checked my page rank and it when up from 1 to 3. I am very happy as I have been working hard for the last 6 months or so.
i stoll didn’t understand with google Page Rank metode, cause my blog has so many backlink, but the page rank still 0
I’m at it a month so far and still a PR of 0. Not sure what I can do to get my blog noticed.
The Keysearch Analytics blog has tips, tricks, advice and case studies for the search marketing industry.
sucks. mine went from 3 to 0 after 2 weeks… what gives? no fair. while my blogspot blogs got theirs intact. i dont see how the blogs in my domain got affected. they should probably be 4 by now
It’s time again. I heard the next one is April 1st.
Hope it’s not an April Fool’s joke.
Well… my website is new so I haven’t got any page rank but I want to have a minimum page rank of 5 is it possible?Or it depends on how old is the website?
my site page rank now 1/10
My web site’s Google PR has not changed,it is the same as last updated time.But I see that lots of web sites’ Google Page rank has gone down.
I made a blog in late October .i his PR 0. what to do. blog on blogspot made some already have PR 1
my site page rank now 0/10
Nice job buddy, good blog.
and you increase your blog rapidly . . .
thanks
Ours went up just at the and of may. We personally don`t believe in updates every few months. We think it an ongoing process.