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PR Update Today - Many Sink
Looks like the toolbar PR updated today, with many sites losing lots of green. Problogger alerted me to it, since it noted that its PR went down to a 4, as did Copyblogger’s. Some of my sites saw a lower PR, including this one. However, I’ve still got great rankings and traffic for things I track, so there’s no direct reflection there. If PageRank falls, but rankings and traffic stay the same, does anyone hear it drop?
I don’t really pay attention to other sites’ PageRank, so it’s hard for me to tell who droppped and who didn’t, so if you know of any big names out there, pass them along. I did note that seroundtable dropped from a 6 to a 4.
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October 24th, 2007 at 5:49 am
The toolbar data is months out of date, so the changes in SERP (if there were any) likely already happened weeks or months ago…
October 24th, 2007 at 6:03 am
Yes I know that’s true in general…unless of course, this is a hand job of some sort. Obviously, PR and rankings don’t go hand in hand, but I was thinking more in terms of “punishment” here. If (and this is an IF), these PR lowerings are the result of some kind of penalty, then it appears to only be PR related and not rankings related. That’s what I was getting at. Not that the normal changes in PR have anything to do with rankings.
October 24th, 2007 at 6:42 am
Seems like a paid link drop …
Loads and loads of sites have dropped.. If you compare SERT with cartoonbarry its a 4 vs a 6 and which one sells links ?
October 24th, 2007 at 9:38 am
There are many, many sites I see that don’t sell links and experienced a PR drop (but no ranking movement) — the magic green pixie dust is reliably just as useless as ever.
October 25th, 2007 at 1:36 am
This is my website’s first update. I didnt see any change in PR. does in mean I didnt get any PR ?
Could any one please answer this. thanks in advance
October 27th, 2007 at 5:48 pm
My site had high search rankings with no PR (new site) and now it has a PR of 2, but it didn’t affect anything. Since none of my clients know what PR is… I’d say it’s mostly useless, for me…However,iIt sure does stir the SEO crowd, if nothing else.
November 9th, 2007 at 9:09 pm
When everything settled down my blogs gained three positions each. I quess it pays to play it white hat all the way.
July 2nd, 2008 at 6:14 am
The google page rank has a complicated(assumed) algorithm that has yet to be understood. They keep making changes to it, so it is difficult to track what to change and what not to.