If my inbox is anything to go by there’s an update going on at Google at the moment that seems to be going beyond just a shift in Page Rank. I’ve had ALOT of readers reporting shifts in both PR and back link numbers. Lots of discussion, speculation and guess work in the forums about it (here and here).
Have you noticed any changes?
I’ve noticed a big change in backlinks today.. I thought it was odd because they links to really old posts. Unfortunately, my PR went from 4 to 3… but I’m not worried about it.
Glad to know it’s not just me…
I have noticed no changes (yet)..
I’ve had a lot of my sites move in the rankings today as well so it appears an update is in full effect.
A few days ago, GadgetGrid did see some lift on pages that normally got no attention. But, all seems back to normal now?
Scooter
http://www.gadgetgrid.com
Must be the big google shakeup. Not sure about PR and backlinks.. but a ton of my adsense ads aren’t working. :(
I received an upgrade in my PR rank today. Hurray!!
Well, I think google is a bit haywire since a week or two.
They only notice a few backlinks and my pagerank is zero.
Oh well ;)
I can wait and am not worried :)
My site got page rank 1/10 up fro 0
I have!
:-D
I went from a PR of two, to a PR of 3!
I also noticed that one of my key posts has a PR of 2 – which is exciting for me.
In Google’s webmaster tools the backlinks update twice a month every month. I have been tracking the progression for months. Is there somewhere else that everyone noticed it only during the PR update?
Nothing here:(
Yep, PR updated too. Got a loverly 2 when it was 0 before.
I went from a PR 0 to PR 4.
i was one of the readers that emailed you i got pr 3 had 0 till now my firefox extension shows me that you have pr 6 check it out.
Yep,
I too see change in GPR for two of my blogs from 2/10 to 3/10.
Good to know that the Google rank changes. For so much time it was stuck at 2.
I noticed a fluctuation in the Page Rank of my site last night while I was was using the Google toolbar, today it didn’t show any changes and across the board no changes had been made. But some PR checkers are showing an increase of my PR.
Pretty strange things are happening.
Oh joy, another screwupdate from Google. The mother ship strikes again. I hope it will be pretty, but I doubt it.
I’m still a 3 on http://www.fermentarium.com/ It’s the same that it was a week ago.
I’m pr 3 from 2.
From PR5 to PR0 or PR5 (depending on the tool used)
My site hollywoodjokes.com which was started in mid November still seems to have pagerank 0. But my backlinks went up from 0 to 73 :-)
I have also noticed some absurdity in SERPs which i have written about in my other site freebloggertips.blogspot.com.
I use to go by page rank and would get discouraged when they would go down, but there is so much play in so many things that factor into page rank that I don’t pay much attention anymore.
Ronnie
Being relatively new to the blogging world it’s hard to tell if the recent spike in traffic is a result of my marketing efforts or some shift from Google. I doubt anything Google does makes much different with my relatively small traffic sites. Without much trend history it’s too hard to tell.
I went from a PR of 0 to a PR of 1. So no worries for me! and i’m especially happy since my blog is less than a month old(!) and already has gotten a page rank!
First my PG is 0 then it goes to PG 2.
But there is a twist that i don’t have any BACKLINKS. Can anyone explain me why it is.
See here http://allin123.blogspot.com/
Yessssssssssssssssss, my blog has 1/10 till last evening, now its 2/10….I think some revamp is going on beause one my friends blog rank got demoted.
Thanks for the heads-up. I checked and went from PR1 to PR3.
Mine hasn’t updated, and I thought that it would since my site has grown quite a bit. Maybe they are still updating?
There has in fact been a mild modification
But what is more important is – has the rankings improved or decreased for those seeing a different PR?
PR has become a status symbol, what what does it really mean in terms of placement on SERPS?
My home page didn’t change, still a 2 but my other pages went from 0 to 1, and my blog went from 0 to 2. thanks for the post, I hadn’t noticed anything until you mentioned it.
Yes, I noticed I went up from PR0 to PR1. Pretty interesting.
We noticed a jump from 3 to 4 on ours.
Yup… Mine went up from PR1 to PR3 =)
My blog PR jumped from 0 to 3 this time.
Just posted about this also! Yeah, I’m seeing changes on my sites and several client sites. Specifically, I’ve seen several clients & friends who got murdered for buying or selling text links and corrected the problem getting their PR back. Most of them back to normal, some took a small hit. It seems like it’s still shaking out because I’ve seen some toolbar and data center differences still.
My site is sitting at 0 at the moment, previously it was PR3. Update must still be happening. I hope…
hi darren,
my page rank has gone from 0 to 2.
wow its gr8
i have been rigourously participating in popular blogs. looks like my strategy is working.
or is it some algo change by google.
I think the former. thats encouraging..
vineet
We went from a 3 to a 4. So did almost every other website we knew, which is odd as hell, if you ask me. Either that, or Google and I both have the same taste in blogs to read.
But I’ll take it. It’s a second priority to having readers enjoy our blog, but a mark of accomplishment just the same. Sorta. :)
While my PR5 expectation was off, I suppose I should be happy with a 0 to 4 in one update.
I went from PR4 to nothing and I guess after the update that you are talking about I now have a sucky PR2
Huh. Problogger’s currently showing a PR of 3, which is lower than mine. Plus the PR predictors are showing a potential 5 for our blog.
I’m reading through the forum links about the updates and it seems PR might wobble up and down for days before settling. True?
58 days live and I finally got a PR! Only 2, but it’s a start. Alexa weekly has gone from 11,000,000 to 250,000. Must have been your encouraging letter the night before, Darren. Thanks!
I lost my PR2…
Yup, pagerank and backlinks updated for all sites I own, my seo site went from PR4 to PR3 (shame on me eh?:P), others moved up and most of the remained as they were.
From what I notice, those sites that were effected by the previous pagerank penalization haven’t moved at all (most of them).
And now the crowd can relax for a week or two, and the shopping pagerank will start again soon on the forums (as always heh).
Good luck to everyone.
I have stopped caring. The day you announce that PR is officially changing , I will go on to check my PR and write an article on that. That is it. I do not check this daily now. Concentrating more on my two blog..
PR 4 to 0 for me…
Yep, up from 1 to 3, cool
Congratulation, Neil Matthews.
No changes yet… :-(
Yea, mine gone up to 3 from 0