Google PageRank Update Going On?

google pagerank update

Personally I have not seen any major changes yet, but some readers emailed me to let me know about a possible toolbar PageRank update (thanks Court).

There is also some activity going on the Digital Point Google forum, which indicate that some change is indeed happening right now.

Keep in mind that we are talking about the toolbar PageRank, that one that you are able to see with your browser. Real PageRanks get updated continuously.

I tried to use some of the prediction and cross datacenters tools to see if the change was trackable from them, but most are not working anymore.

Have you noticed any change on your websites?

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Daniel Scocco on April 29, 2008 | Filed Under SEO

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67 Responses to “Google PageRank Update Going On?”

Court on April 29th, 2008 2:27 pm

Thanks for the link Daniel!

I’m showing you guys at PR7, and am also seeing moves in most of my sites.

I guess Google made a change so the PR checkers aren’t working anymore.
MrCooking on April 29th, 2008 2:49 pm

It’s all good, my blog is so new, it didn’t get ranked yet

Thanks for the heads up though.
Daniel Scocco on April 29th, 2008 2:58 pm

I am still seeing a PR5 on DailyBlogTips. I think a PR7 is really out of our reach right now :), but we will see.
BioTecK on April 29th, 2008 3:03 pm

I haven’t seen any changes on my PR.. But I recently moved my blog to a new domain name.. So I guess that it takes some time for my blog to get rankend!
Rhys on April 29th, 2008 3:10 pm

No.
Steve Belt on April 29th, 2008 3:52 pm

Both of my blogs (which are less than a year old) had PR increases on the toolbar of 1 in the last day or 2.
Ahilosu on April 29th, 2008 3:53 pm

no pagerank update yet, but some sources say that the PR Update will be somewhere around 5th of May
Moxie on April 29th, 2008 4:03 pm

Yes, indeed Google is updating the toolbar PR. One site I’m tracking everyday, the insideIRA, which is relatively a new site. Its PR goes from zero to 9!
Daniel Scocco on April 29th, 2008 4:08 pm

@BioTeck, yeah it will take some time.

@Steve, congrats.

@Ahilosu, what sources are those, if you can share?

@Moxie, I think it is impossible to go from 0 to 9 .
Mo on April 29th, 2008 4:16 pm

I see 5 as well… oddly enough, last night my site (oibo.org) showed a page rank at 4 — which would be great ‘cept I’m pretty new and don’t have a heckuv a lot of inbound links. Sure enough checked again this AM from another location/browser and it’s got no page rank. So something was happening last night around the time I checked (10:00pm PST).

Mo
Ahilosu on April 29th, 2008 5:14 pm

The first source was http://www.seopedia.org/

Another person, which has inside access to Google Romania, told me that the PR update will be between 1-10 May
Google Kill Me Again! on April 29th, 2008 9:00 pm

What an awful day! Google kill me again! I check my blog Voice Of Dingchao with my toolbar, it goes down to PR0 from PR2! They killed it to PR2 from PR4 last update. This time they are worse. This is a cruel thing! And I believe it is a murder. God knows that too.

What I can do now is abandon Google.
Ando on April 29th, 2008 9:04 pm

Something is going on, my Page Rank has gone UP, so I can’t complain

Thanks Google
James Chartrand - Men with Pens on April 29th, 2008 9:51 pm

*sigh*… It’d sure be nice. Changing domains hit us hard in the PR department.
dutch schultz on April 29th, 2008 9:55 pm

I have not seen a change in page rank on my main website where I sell t shirts, however, I have seen a change for the better in where I show up in some keyword searches. My blog is a page off of my main site and it is less than a month old. I am a new blogger and hope it will help with show up in search engine results. I love this blog, I just became a subscriber. thanks
Meg on April 29th, 2008 11:12 pm

I’m seeing you at a 7 too as is this site:

http://www.googlepagerankchecker.com

Well done if that’s the case.
Shankar Ganesh on April 30th, 2008 12:28 am

One tool here at http://pr.blogflux.com/ is predicting a PR of 6 for my blog, http://www.killertechtips.com
Shodan on April 30th, 2008 12:41 am

Jan 01, 2008 i started my blog, it is almost 4 month now. My pagerank is 4 and few posts has 2 and few 3 PR.

Thanks for the info.
Jeff on April 30th, 2008 1:01 am

Congrats on the PR7! Man what does it take to get to that level… maybe I should work harder on your blog tips. Keep up the good work!
fitzheim on April 30th, 2008 1:08 am

I don’t know why people always rate a good website/blog via PR. What’s the benefit of getting good PR? Does it bring any good?

Personally, since the PR was put into practice, the Internet is no longer entertaining. I prefer readers compared to PR.

I can say no more.
Otto on April 30th, 2008 1:46 am

Last week 3 today it appears to be 5, something has happened…
Michael Clark on April 30th, 2008 2:23 am

My site just dropped from 5 to 4, which I attribute to moving a lot of my personal content over to my personal domain, which went from 1 to a 4.
Abhinav on April 30th, 2008 3:01 am

The toolbar pagerank for my blog has just changed from zero to 1. Well, at least now I am rated. Though it really doesn’t make much of a difference, does it?
Amit on April 30th, 2008 4:16 am

Hi

We at http://www.dev102.com just got a PR 4. Up until now we had PR 0 and we are alive only 4 months!
Medical Transcriptionist on April 30th, 2008 4:21 am

Congrats Daniel, you have moved to PR7.
Mayooresan on April 30th, 2008 5:19 am

My site is not so popular, but recently I found that some of my articles such as upgrading to wordpress 2.5 has become one of the top results in google search.

First I thought it’s something to do with my hosting company!! so… it seems google working on something!
Ross on April 30th, 2008 5:22 am

Yeah, you’re a 7 now. And they are doing updates to a lot of sites right now. I went from a 6 (which I got in Jan) to a 5. Lifehacker went to an 8 (well deserved). KillerTechTips.com went from a 5 to a 6.
David Airey on April 30th, 2008 6:20 am

Great work, Daniel. You deserve the public PR7 I’m seeing for DBT.

I’ve had my main blog bumped from 5 to 6, and my fledgling Logo Design Love go from 0 to 5. A pleasant start to the day.
James Chartrand - Men with Pens on April 30th, 2008 7:14 am

Woot! 24 hours later, my PR 4 is back! (Can I grumble and say I wish it were a 5?)
Tom on April 30th, 2008 7:39 am

My toolbar shows a PR7 for you and for my page (started only on march 2nd this year) I allready see a PR3 - maybe due to your StudioPress theme?
Daniel Scocco on April 30th, 2008 7:57 am

@Google Kill me Again, at least you are recovering it.

@James, yeah changing domains is tricky with PR.

@Dutch, as long as search results as increasing gradually, you are on the right track.

@Meg, yeah I am seeing it as well now :).

@Shankar, congrats on the PR6 on such a short time span.

@Shodan, well done.

@Jeff, thanks!

@Fitzheim, who said we rate how good a website are based on its PR :)? We all know PR is not that important these days, but it sure gives you some guidance for the trust level that Google places on the site.

@Otto, I think it is pretty much confirmed right now.

@Michael Clark, could be that.

@Abhinav, not that much. Pay more attention to your organic search levels.

@Amit, well done.

@Medical T, thanks.

@Mayooresan, yeah usually PR reflects the overall trend on your SERPs.

@Ross, yes I am starting to track them also.

@Thanks and congrats on those also!

@Yeah the themes definitely helped.
Rajeev Edmonds on April 30th, 2008 8:39 am

My blog’s PR went up from 0 to 3.
Google Is Kidding Me! on April 30th, 2008 9:56 am

I can’t believe it! My dating site Beauty Comes get PR4! How can a 2 months age site get PR4? I know Google is kidding me!

Now what I can do is ignore Google PR!

God bless!
Matt on April 30th, 2008 11:17 am

My page rank of 4 on the main page stayed the same, but last night the category pages went from a 3 to a 2. Even with being accepted into the Google directory last quarter, this still happened. I expected at least the same or slightly better. I don’t get it!
SE7EN on April 30th, 2008 11:59 am

Finally my site went from 3 to 4. Yay!
Falcos on April 30th, 2008 12:01 pm

Does anyone know how yahoo calculates the position in search pages? A week ago i was receiving over 600 visits from yahoo and now under 100 / day and i can’t even see my page in there.
Farrhad on April 30th, 2008 1:24 pm

In the google directory my website shows PR 3 from PR 1 but the Tool Bar is still showing PR 1……interesting……
TDSii on April 30th, 2008 2:38 pm

great post man thx!
The Blogger Tips on April 30th, 2008 3:07 pm

Daniel,

I don’t understand why my browser showing DBT as PR0 now?
Rakshit on April 30th, 2008 6:31 pm

Yeah, I just for PR2……
Google has been too kind for many of us.
Daniel Scocco on April 30th, 2008 6:53 pm

@Rajeev, congrats.

@Google Is Kidding Me, sometimes it happens, I have already seen sites go from 0 to PR5 in 3 months or so.

@Matt, yeah sometimes you cant figure what is going on with their algo.

@Se7en, congrats.

@Falcos, most SEO principles apply to all search engines (since the others tent to follow Google anyway) but you might want to do some search for Yahoo SEO factors to optimize for them.

@Farrahd, wait a couple of days more and the toolbar should get updated.
Brian Gardner on May 1st, 2008 2:05 am

No complaints out of me, just got updated to a PR 8. Great job on the 7 Daniel, must be the coding of the theme that got you so high!
Aravind on May 1st, 2008 4:15 am

I am so happy that my 1 month old blog got a PR4
laketrees on May 1st, 2008 5:53 am

congratulations on your PR 7 Daniel….
it looks like mine has gone from a 4 to a 5….
classifieds on May 1st, 2008 9:34 am

Last week, I changed my PR6 blog, my sysad blog (blogspot domain), to a customized domain name. Yesterday, its page rank nosedived from a 6 to 0. A few hours later it improved to a PR2 (still holding there).
Jem on May 1st, 2008 9:35 am

Congratulations on the boost to PR7.
小舟 on May 1st, 2008 3:09 pm

my blog have got a pr of 2.
the PR has changed yesterday.
Daniel Scocco on May 1st, 2008 4:31 pm

@Brian, congrats on the PR8. Yeah the themes must have helped.

@Aravind, congrats.

@laketrees, thanks man.

@Classifieds, it will take some take to go back to the previous level if you did a domain change.

@Jem, thanks man.

@小舟, well done.
Seo Freelance India on May 1st, 2008 6:05 pm

What’s happenings! My home page raking is getting down while inner pages are increasing!!
Myo Kyaw Htun on May 3rd, 2008 1:17 pm

My site has Pagerank 6 after Google updates
Binaryday on May 5th, 2008 9:59 pm

My PR went from 4 to 3. Several blogs that I track saw a change in PR as well. BTW if you want to check or display your pagerank then you can use a small php code I have written. http://www.binaryday.com/pager.....ogtips.com
tech blog on May 6th, 2008 1:00 pm

yeah….my blog went from PR 1 to PR 2…and my personal blog which i launched a month ago got a N/A to PR 2…so yep…definitely updates are on!
Sinziana on May 6th, 2008 4:49 pm

One of the sites I am working on had a PR change from 0 to 2 last week and two blogs from 2 to 3. Yeap, it’s an update.
Bambosi on May 7th, 2008 3:18 am

Great, My blog get PR 3 now
Michael Aulia on May 9th, 2008 12:48 am

I’m still on 1 although a Google PR Prediction at http://www.iwebtool.com/pagera.....om%2Fblogs should give me a PR 3-5

Wonder what’s wrong..whether there’s a misconfiguration on my site somewhere *ugh*
Saeid taherian on May 10th, 2008 4:29 pm

hi , thank you for report
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FreeCms on May 10th, 2008 4:35 pm

hello , please help me for PR currently my sit page rank 2 and low
thanks a lot ”

my site : http://www.freecms.ir
Hami on May 11th, 2008 9:49 pm

Myself is looking for PR4.. I guess it’s not very hard to obtain but still it takes a bit of time. Any tips would be helpfull..
Munir Ahmad on May 13th, 2008 8:12 pm

My blog is so new, that I’m not yet ranked…
gomylocal on May 19th, 2008 2:58 am

Will the Google PageRank update happen May 21, 2008? If so how do we know it is happening?
linkmingle.com on June 10th, 2008 3:24 pm

We still have page rank 0 even if we have 1700+ back links….