Google PR Update: Here We Go Again!

Keep in mind there is nothing confirmed, but several people started to notice changes both in PageRank and backlinks count numbers.

One of my sites apparently gained PR as well. DailyBits went from a PR2 to a PR4.

I tried to check on Google’s data centers but most of them are behaving strangely (reporting a PR0 even for established websites). One tool that appears to be working is this one.

No one was expecting such an early PageRank update in 2008. The last one, as you probably can remember, happened late in October and it created a lot of buzz due to a new policy that Google decided to adopt towards websites that were selling text links without the nofollow tag.

Have you noticed any changes?

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Daniel Scocco on January 12, 2008 | Filed Under SEO

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87 Responses to “Google PR Update: Here We Go Again!”

Napster on January 12th, 2008 4:00 am

No changes yet.
Daniel on January 12th, 2008 4:02 am

It appears that most sites will just retain the same PR though. That is the trend I am seeing.
TheBloggerTips on January 12th, 2008 4:11 am

Hi,

I tried the tool you have provided but my new site less than a month, unable to see changes now.
Luciano Passuello on January 12th, 2008 4:14 am

My site Litemind went from PR5 to PR6…
smain on January 12th, 2008 4:14 am

still the same… on all my webs…
monkey on January 12th, 2008 4:15 am

hold on just checking my PR now! Nah still PR0
Delpher on January 12th, 2008 4:17 am

yes, PR start update
Ruchir on January 12th, 2008 4:20 am

My blog is the same
James Chartrand - Web Content Writer Tips on January 12th, 2008 4:28 am

3 to 4 here. I’ve heard PR may fluctuate over the next few days… true? Not true?
Ellie on January 12th, 2008 5:08 am

Nothing on this end.
Medhy on January 12th, 2008 5:19 am

I got PR 3 from PR 0. Nice.
Eli on January 12th, 2008 5:28 am

PR5 to PR4. Oh well, no big deal.
Photography Dreamer on January 12th, 2008 5:29 am

PR was updated this morning
* 2 of my sites went from PR0 to PR3
* 2 from PR0 to PR2
* 1 stayed the same PR4

So my conclusion is that it affected mainly new sites
Bogdan on January 12th, 2008 6:27 am

I got from PR3 to 4 and several of my pages also got PR4. I guess it’s starting.
James on January 12th, 2008 6:37 am

Hi hope it will come soon,but now no change
Steven on January 12th, 2008 7:01 am

The PR for my blog front page stayed at 5, but my site homepage went from 4 to 2. No idea why.
Christy on January 12th, 2008 7:39 am

I was shocked today when I saw that one of my blogs was dropped from a PR 3 down to two. I thought we’d at least get a few months break before this all started again.

The site with the change is around four months old, I guess we’ll have to wait and see what they’re doing this time around.
Tejvan Pettinger on January 12th, 2008 7:45 am

one site PR3 to PR4

new site 0 to 3

many stayed same

one went down from PR2 to PR1

What does PR mean again?
martinsc on January 12th, 2008 7:49 am

i have lots of changes in PR on almost all sites (some down, some up) but no changes in the SERPs … yet…
daniy! on January 12th, 2008 8:02 am

I used digpagerank.com but it seems there hasn’t any changes with my blogs PR. The PR 2 still got the same number, and the PR 0 hasn’t crack the egg yet.

I tried to switch to your livepr.ezr.com, but the server seemed respond quite long
lilian on January 12th, 2008 8:25 am

Got yr link through 45n5. Yeap, Google gave me a fright last night because my PR4/10 got unranked. And the green juice returned when I woke up. A few of my new blogs gained PR 1 and PR 2 as well.
steven wilson on January 12th, 2008 8:43 am

Went from pr 3 to pr 4 here.
Rishi Raj on January 12th, 2008 8:57 am

Wow, my not even a month blog got Pagerank 2. Man, my theme release atlast got me some success !
Grace on January 12th, 2008 9:00 am

No changes yet, unfortunately.
Katy on January 12th, 2008 9:25 am

I noticed an increase in PageRank on Thursday evening for some of my internal pages and made a post about it.

Overall, there were just a few changes for me but I did have a new blog go from 0 to 3 which was quite surprising.
Jason on January 12th, 2008 9:44 am

Cool. I went from a 1 to a 4 on Succes For Your Blog
Famous Quotes on January 12th, 2008 9:46 am

Yes, it’s definitely happening. My blog is just 2 months old and today it’s showing a PR of 1. So I am #1 now! LOL
MaddieB on January 12th, 2008 10:01 am

Looks like there was a small bump on Quebec Wines but no change on Find Mapping.

Not clear whether the change has anything to do with Google though.
Rafael R. López on January 12th, 2008 10:43 am

from 3 t0 4 in my website http://www.bligter.com
Good luck to everyone!
Terinea Weblog on January 12th, 2008 10:54 am

Mine has changed from PR1 to a 4, which is good news.

Jamie
seosos on January 12th, 2008 11:05 am

Yep. My blog has no PR now…
Zero, Nada, Gurnisht.
thewild1 on January 12th, 2008 11:10 am

i went from a p2 to p3… woohoo
Keith Dsouza on January 12th, 2008 12:00 pm

I saw a PR jump from 4 to 5 but strangely one of the datacenter is showing PR as 7, unsure whether there will be another jump for me
marco on January 12th, 2008 1:24 pm

2 to 1 … grmpf
Chip on January 12th, 2008 2:24 pm

I noticed changes in my backlinks count as reported by Google’s Webmaster Tools. They seemed to be decreasing. As of today I cannot access the tools, nor the AdSense account. They are facing technical difficulties.

I’m looking forward to access my account again and see and see what has changed.
Iversen on January 12th, 2008 4:36 pm

jap..notice the changes.. probably those changes are for good..because no one wantts Pagerank 0 , and i ll try to improve that:)
Reno on January 12th, 2008 7:57 pm

Went from 2 to 0. Not happy and I hope it changes soon.
CatherineL on January 12th, 2008 8:22 pm

You are so lucky - most people I’ve spoken to so far have seen their PR drop. My PR on my blog went from a 3 to a 2.
Prashanth on January 12th, 2008 10:27 pm

Yeah!
My site moved from PR 3 to PR 4
Daniel Harrison on January 13th, 2008 8:55 am

One of my sites that was a PR0 due to the paid links kickback has gone back up to a PR3. It was once a PR5, but still nice to know my email to Google was recognised. One of the sites that I haven’t contacted Google about has stayed at PR0.

Don’t care about PR anymore, but still nice to know that I’m not on Google’s naughty list.
JoeTech.com on January 13th, 2008 1:49 pm

JoeTech.com had somehow gone from PR5 to PR0 in the October update. This time around, I’m back to PR3, which is better than nothing, I suppose. LinkBaitMe.com jumped from PR2 to PR3.
Kristen on January 13th, 2008 3:02 pm

No change (PR 3) in the Google toolbar, but the data centers tool showed PR 0 for three IPs before it timed out. Strange days…
km on January 13th, 2008 6:49 pm

Nothing on this end
Carey on January 14th, 2008 1:50 am

Got a PR2 for a brand new site shop fitness and added a pr onto a couple of others.
Little Guy Network Review on January 14th, 2008 5:09 am

I dont see much changes, but my new blog went to pr3 hehe
Kevin on January 14th, 2008 8:57 am

I don’t think so… i haven’t find such changes yet…. however let’s hope it changes and raised by 1 or 2
Alan on January 15th, 2008 3:12 am

My site Skills Portal went from PR5 to PR4. It really ruined my weekend!!
Mirco on January 15th, 2008 7:52 am

Still no changes on 7 of my websites, very weird.
George on January 15th, 2008 6:06 pm

One 3 month old site went from PR 0 to 3.
One blog 2 years old went from PR 5 to 3.
The rest remained the same.
Alexis Kauffmann on January 16th, 2008 5:22 pm

Most internal pages from http://www.gehspace.com/ changed from PR 2 to PR3. The home-page PR has not changed, stayed with 3, while my campanha.htm page leaped from 2 to 4. It is a 3 y.o. website with more than 12000 backlinks.

My 1 year-old blog, http://meusitenaprimeirapagina.....gspot.com/ leaped from PR2 to PR4.

The blog I’ve started on December 24th last year, http://seonoticiaseartigos.blogspot.com/ has jumped from PR n/a to PR5! What amazes me is the outstanding traffic number I earned since this incredible PR value: it stayed steady on 12 unique visits per day!!!

Does PR still really mean anything?
drmike on January 17th, 2008 4:58 pm

I’m still a zero on an established site but am heavily indexed. When I update, it gets in there in 20 minutes. It’s weird.
Nick - road2blogging on January 20th, 2008 4:25 pm

Well, we can all but try and I definitely will for the next new update. When it was happening I was checking a few of my sites on the datacenter and all were showing up with zero. Then, like you I went and checked a few other established blogs and sites and they too were showing up as zero. Wondering if google were purposely blocking the datacenters revealing pr.
SeoTrader on January 24th, 2008 1:07 am

I have just added new tool to check all Google DataCenters for Page Rank.
k.s.reddy on January 24th, 2008 7:49 am

When will Google finish 2008 January PR update?
Khayte on January 26th, 2008 11:46 pm

Gawd, mine had gone to N/A too, I hate the fact that they have to reduce our PR’s just because we monetize our blogs. What’s the catch anyway? They do the same thing, too I guess on their ‘other’ websites perhaps. Damnn, it makes me go all crazy. –,
Manish on February 6th, 2008 4:58 am

Mine 3 websites/blogs went from PR3 to PR0
I was writing few paid articles on them. Cud that be the reason ? I didnt have “paid post” or “sponsored post” written.
blogsha.com on February 15th, 2008 7:55 pm

I got a big fat 0

Shardul
http://www.blogsha.com/
Hosting on February 19th, 2008 11:50 am

No update here …. to bad, I hope I will finally get my PR6
Megan on February 20th, 2008 2:15 am

I have definately seen some page rank changes in the past 30 days. Going back and forth with no apparent reasoning for my mains site. Nothing to make your heart pound a little harder to wonder where you are going to place for that day. But as of current I have slid a little but appear to be moving quite well for my main index site.

Thanks for bringing this to our attention
Megan
http://www.PassportMentors.com
Grant Glendinning on February 26th, 2008 5:09 pm

My backlinks shown by Google using link:domain.com has definitely gone up, its now shoing 287, whereas last week it only showed 214. Another site I started the week after the last PR update also has around 90 links in Google. So a link: update has definitely been released. No doubt about it. I haven’t seen any PR changes, though.
zeniamai on March 2nd, 2008 11:01 pm

My backlink for lazymovie has definitely gone down. what’s up with google? My PR also went down from 5 to 4.. Really not that big of a deal but its just kindda disappointing in my part… hmmm…
koozehchian on March 17th, 2008 3:10 am

my PR decreased to 3 from 4
Mirco on March 17th, 2008 4:34 am

I just got PR 2 back. Before they dropped me from PR 4 to PR 2 and then PR 0.
zeniamai on March 17th, 2008 6:27 am

Why is google reading meta description? Google is using the meta description the same way as yahoo does… What’s up with that?!
makatbi on April 14th, 2008 9:23 am

ok
JBiggs on April 20th, 2008 11:26 am

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Farrhad on April 26th, 2008 7:28 am

My website is showing PR 3 in the google directory.
Previously it was PR 1.

Recreation: Aviation: Resources: Aviation Earth
phreakaholic on April 28th, 2008 8:43 am

when will PR update finished?
Monavie on May 6th, 2008 1:54 pm

Lost PR. I think article directories lost the PR value they send on.
Stepje on May 12th, 2008 4:07 pm

When is the next PR update? My site http://www.escortprofielen.nl sticks to PR 1 for a long time:(