What’s Going On With Google PageRank?

by Mike on October 4, 2008
in Search Engines

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A lot of strange goings on with Google PageRank since yesterday.  Just last week the PR of this blog was updated from a N/A to a PR4.  Now its back to an N/A.

I checked my other sites and they all appear to be back to what they were before last week’s update.  My best guess is Google had to roll back the update for some reason and its only temporary.  So settle down and don’t worry about it.

I don’t care much about PR anyway.  Its nice to see it go up but it doesn’t really correlate to how much revenue a site produces…unless you sell links which I don’t do anyway.

We;ll see what happens over the next couple of days.  hopefully it will all get straightened out and I’ll get the PR4 back again.

What kind of impact have you seen on your sites?

Edit on 10/6 – Looks like the dust settled and I’m back to a PR4…all is well with the world again.  :)

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12 Responses to “What’s Going On With Google PageRank?”
  1. Danny Cooper (7 comments.) says:
    October 4, 2008 at 2:41 pm

    I saw an increase to PR3 and that was it, no unstability..

    Danny Coopers last blog post..What’s on Your RSS Reader?

  2. Matthew Dunn (1 comments.) says:
    October 4, 2008 at 7:25 pm

    I went from PR2 to PR3 back to PR2. I agree that it really doesn’t make much difference as long as my site appears in the top 5-10 sites for my keywords.

  3. Clara (1 comments.) says:
    October 5, 2008 at 4:25 am

    This has been the most unstable PR update ever. I’ve watched the PR on various sites go up and down daily for the past week. Get your act together Google . . . or at least err on the side of caution.

  4. Yan (2 comments.) says:
    October 5, 2008 at 1:00 pm

    The result may vary depending on which data centers it is collecting the PR stats but when the big G is done with the update, everything will normalize to your assigned PR.

    Yan

    Yans last blog post..Moneybites Contest: Win Free Cash, Tech and More!

  5. kahthan (3 comments.) says:
    October 6, 2008 at 11:34 pm

    yeah we should expect fluctuations because its the nature of the recursive calculations they must be doing. its hard on us because we see a positive PR change and then it drops again..

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  6. Dennis Edell (46 comments.) says:
    October 7, 2008 at 4:13 am

    I remained at 2. I don’t see any here now.

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  7. Anonymous (1 comments.) says:
    October 7, 2008 at 7:12 pm

    Guess what.. You got your PR4 again :)

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  8. Christopher Ross (15 comments.) says:
    October 11, 2008 at 8:13 pm

    I’ve been stuck at 4 for years It makes me sad inside.

    Christopher Rosss last blog post..Google Changes the Way SERP’s are Displayed

  9. Dennis Edell (46 comments.) says:
    October 12, 2008 at 4:24 pm

    “Stuck at 4″ How I wish. LOL

    Dennis Edells last blog post..Do Advertisers Judge You By Design? What Do You Think…

  10. Om (6 comments.) says:
    November 7, 2008 at 12:35 am

    The PR update has some good news for me in the sense that I had a site with no PR and in the update, it got a 4PR and another site with no PR got a 2PR. Well, I have heard that google has made some changes in its search algorithms and people are anticipating some more surprises in the next update.

  11. Gerald SEO Tips Blog (3 comments.) says:
    November 29, 2008 at 8:57 pm

    I have not seen any change in my PR

    Gerald SEO Tips Blogs last blog post..7 Deadly Blogging Mistakes

  12. Jonathan Meager (4 comments.) says:
    January 13, 2009 at 12:08 pm

    Has anyone been affected by the latest PR changes?

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