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.
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 problogger.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 Problogger site has drop in PR from 6 to 5 using the tool.
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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 :-)
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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).
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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. :(
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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 Problogger), 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://problogger.com/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, Problogger 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?
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