Written on October 20th, 2005 at 12:10 pm by Darren Rowse

Google PR Update Underway

Search Engine Optimization 61 comments

The Google Page Rank update is underway - you can check what your PR will/could be using this Future Page Rank Tool to track what the different data centers have your page rank at.

Keep in mind that Page Rank is not the be all and end all - you might like to read a post I’ve written trying to explain page rank if you’re new to the concept.

61 Responses to “Google PR Update Underway”

  • Yeah, I just noticed that some of my newer pages now have non-zero PR.

  • I just saw one page go from a 4 to a 5 and headed over here to share the news - should have expected that you’d already have a post up!

  • thanks Tom.

    I’ve been watching it a bit the last 24 hours.

    excitingly it looks like most of our brand new b5 media sites are debuting at PR6 - with the b5 central site looking getting a PR 7 if that tool is to be believed!

    Very interesting.

    The strange thing is that b5media looks like outranking enternetusers.net after just a month….

    I guess that puts page rank into perspective a little.

  • It’s kind of cool to see that I have 11 PR6 sites ;-)

    Probably won’t last though. Different datacenters have to weigh in before the PR sticks.

  • Looks like the enternetusers site has drop in PR from 6 to 5 using the tool.

  • […] Via Kevin comes the news that Google is changing its PageRank algorithm. For those who care, there’s a tool that will tell you your site’s new PR once the changes are made. […]

  • lol, having had my referrals from google hit rock bottom this week, one datacenter is showing a page rank of 2, the rest a page rank of 1 (same as the site has been for the last 18 months).

    It’d be nice to gain a place, but given the current fall in referrals I’m guessing it’ll level out and remain at 1.

    Yippee :(

    Repeat: Google is not the boss of me, google is not the boss of me…..

  • The algorithm seems to take longer and longer to get iterated close enough to the new pageranks. Maybe it’s just me checking more en more :-)

  • […] From Darren of enternetusers, the Google PR update is on it’s way. SEOs are excited, while I got a little curious. […]

  • This is my first pagerank-update for my new blog. I will go from 0 to 5 (according to the future pagerank tool). Which should be fine ;)

    since 90% of my visitors are refered by google. This might push the counter a bit.

  • GoogleGuy has said this a few times over at WMW, but PR is constantly calculated, the “update” you’re talking about is merely cosmetic — just a snapshot of the database at a point in time for the benefit of toolbar users. So, those of you seeing that your PR will change and are hoping for more visitors — it already has changed, and whatever effect PR has on the SERPs has aready taken place.

    Sean

  • Sean, sure it’s cosmetic, but it’s also the only real metric we have for the strength of a given site in the google database. And that metric is important to advertisers.

  • While it’s a cosmetic change, and the PR changes have actually been in effect for awhile, I did see a huge jump in Google traffic starting around this past weekend. And that seemed to be a ‘real’ change (not just due to an overall spike in traffic), as the other search engines held more or less steady. So I’m guessing that this most recent update happened to coincide with my site getting moved out of the sandbox (assuming I was ever in it).

  • […] Again, I have to be completely unoriginal and credit Darren for the information. […]

  • I think the PR may have taken effect, at least in the toolbar I’m using. Both the sites I was talking about on Darren’s earlier post now have a PR of 5 (for the front page at least) whereas before they were zero.

    Maybe not absolutely complete, but for toolbar at least.

  • Markus, I am jealous. It took me 10 months to get to a PR of 5. :)

  • Markus according to my toolbar you hit 5 which is still pretty good. Is PR regionalised at all?

  • Url is dead can your remove it ?
    http://www.pagerank-check.net/index.php

  • New domain bought two months ago, and it had PR 0 since then, now a PR 7. Woo-hoo! :)

  • I’ve got 5 for my most successful blog, 4 for two others, 3 for my forum. All are less than 3 months old, and were PR 0 until yesterday.

    Unfortunately, my new blog, The Games of my Life, about a week old, seems to be staying at PR 0. :(

  • […] According to Darren Rowse, a Google Page Rank update is underway. […]

  • Google Page Rank update underway

    I just saw a couple posts mentioning that Google is updating their pagerank. A pagerank update happens about four times a year and is greeted with great excitement by the geeks that follow search engine marketing. There is a link…

  • I was upgraded from a 6 to a 7. Too bad PageRank isn’t as important as it used to be.

  • Great :) All my new sites went from 0 to 4. An older forum went from 4 to 5.

  • Yep, both my b5 blogs have hit 6 from a standing start, while my personal blog SYNTAGMA got a 5, just as I’m on the point of starting again outside of Blogspot. Icerocket here we come!

  • Woohoo! My weblog’s back to a PR7.

    No discernable change in SEPs for anything yet.

  • Matt’s been talking about the updates and reckons there more to come over the next couple of weeks, so maybe everything will settle down after that…..

  • Yay! My (year-old) personal blog went from PR 4 to PR 5, my month-old forum went from 0 to 4, and another new website of of mine went from 0 to 4.

  • I am happy to see that my site has gone from a page rank of 0 to a 4.

  • This proves once and for all the absolute absurdity of Page Rank. My site went from 0 to 5. I am currently getting between 20 and 40 visitors a day.

    Don’t get me wrong, I don’t object to it, but I’m nothing like other PR5 sites.

  • jesse, does seem strange, I get around 450 to 600 visitors a day to scoobyphotos.com, this was up to nearly 1,000 visitors a day preceeding last weekends google dance, and the site now has a PR of 2 (it was 1).

    If I can understand the logic behind the ranking process, I’d probably do better - backlinks increased dramatically during this last update, I’m just hoping to improve on what I’ve got over the next 3 months.

    I’m amazed at how quickly some sites, such as the b5media ones, have gained such a high rank so quickly - maybe it does come down to the number of high ranking sites that link through to you.

    Does make you question your sanity though!

  • Anyone notice that MSN.com is currently at PR2? I’m sure it’s a glitch, but it’s a funny one!

  • Yep, jumped to a PR5 from a standing start, with even fewer visitors daily than some of the other blogs mentioned; however, I have a lot of quality links (mostly to the article I got so much good press for here on enternetusers), so I guess that really is the chief determining factor now.

  • yeah, I dunno. I haven’t been linked to by anyone big, and I’ve only been around since mid-August.

    Who knows?

  • Google is starting to be really crazy about rank
    seems…

  • How true is the future page rank tool?

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  • thanks for the heads up Darren,

    my ADD website and blog have gone from PR 4 to PR 5 and the ADD book blog I’m doing with my coauthor went from a 0 to a Page rank 4 but was only started 30 days ago.

    Wow, thanks Google!

    Pete

  • EngLee, the future rank tool at SEOTalk “predicted” my PR on three sites perfectly, so I’m happy with it :)

  • So umm…. if your pagerank goes up… what does that mean, actually? Other than perhaps that they like you….. they really like you? Does it equate to higher placement on searches?

  • Matt,

    Darren has an article on Pagerank at https://enternetusers.net/archives/2005/07/16/google-page-rank-explained/

    Cheers :-)

  • Thanks, Mark! And Darren!

  • As a user who has MSN as my startpage - it’s easy to see why http://msn.com has a pagerank of 2 (or less) - hardly anybody goes there … try http://my.msn.com –> different story - PR=8

  • My 4 month old personal blog site went from 0 to a 5 with 264 Google links and over 1000 on MSN, Yahoo, etc… I am pretty happy to see a sudden large jump which normally should take a year to accomplish, I also question whether this whole PageRank thing is sort of screwed up. In my opinion, enternetusers getting 6 is simply not right considering the massive amount of links the set gets.

  • How long does it usually take after a PageRank update for a site to get a ‘higher’ listing in Google - if you had an increase in PR?

  • Michael Locker MD

    March 18th, surf zone.6:31 am

    Good question.

    Michael Locker MD

  • Nice to find a tool where I can check my PR updates, as the owner of a new site it is annoying to have 0 PR when directories/affiliates want you to have at least 1 PR… even though PR is overrated…

  • I can see that PR dropped to 0 for some sites with top SEPR positions. Is PR update coming ?

  • Now got some page rank for my Directory, http://www.yoursitelibrary.com it gone from a PR 0 to a PR 3, but someone told me it was a Pr4 in thier toolbar, anyway its good.

    At last after all the wait

  • how will i came to know when google will update page rank of my website

  • My website received a PR2 update back in April 2007 without a single backlink and at only three months old.

    I have updated my blog with nearly 100 post since April last along with about 60 or more backlinks with a PR4 or higher besides I have neglected to use any of the automated backlink generating software even though I have about three to five (including some serious blackhat stuff) sitting as unused on my desktop.

    I received a detailed worded reprimand from Google a few months back about techniques that contravenes their Webmasters link acquisition guidelines that warned against the auto generated links that gives an unfair advantage to a few (cheeky) webmasters.

    I noticed I received this warning after I spents countless hours visiting and downloading all sorts of rss this and rss that type of seo software that put you ahead of the competition, and at the time of receiving the letter I was running some Google codes as a beta test on my website and at one ocassion came across a css history in the Google webmaster tools area of every single blackhat download page I visited, strange enough all the blackhat pages I visited was documented by Google who at the same will tell you they have proof you are breaking their rules but due to company policy you will never find out how they gather their evidence against you.

    Due to this uncertainty (on whether my internet activities are still being monitored) I decided to manually seek out valuable backlinks relevant to my website and blog I have only managed to acquire approximately 200 links so far (a task that has proven quite arduous and time consuming, I wont use any of the auto generators until I have changed my computers along with my adsl service provider) and I’m wondering whether or not these extra 200 backlinks will have a positive effect on my PR.

    I’m hoping that my website moves to a PR4 in the next update which I have heard by the way will occur somewhere near the end of August 2007.

    Well with the 60 backlinks PR4 or better I hope these will show up in the next update.

  • Can nybody tell me exact date of page rank update

  • nobody outside of Google Seo

  • I have recently joined content desk and had one site built for me. I have done some heavy backlink building. I can hardly wait to see my initial page rank. If I get pr4, I’ll buy a drink to all of you guys :)

  • Please tell me exact date of page rank update

  • Hi,

    Guys no body knows the PR update Date. it is a long process and google update their database in a sequence, so as soon as your term come your site data will be updated and PR will be given according to google criteria.

    hope we all better PR….
    Me too waiting for PR4 uuuummmm

    cheers,

  • I’ve been waiting for PR 6 for more than a year now. Site seems to be saturated at PR4. Lets see what happens this Sept 2007, or is it Oct 2007 , Next PR Update I mean ? Any ideas?

  • PR updating should be happening soon. However, PR no longer has the value it used to have.

  • I’m waiting for the PR update :-)

  • PR is crazeee in my opinion. I put a legit site’s (with PR5) files to another domain I own for backup/testing purpose. I left it there once i finished my testing and guess what after 2 months I go back to delete the files and that test domain home page and every inside page has PR5 too!!! I dont need a PhD like some of the overpaid blokes at the big G to know that PR is not what it is made out to be.

  • OK !
    Nice talk..

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