It would appear that Google updated pagerank on Monday July 18th, 2011. This is likely a minor update or tweak to the Google Pagerank Update June 27th, 2011 we saw.
It is fairly common for Google to follow up with a few minor changes and I actually expected to see this happen. There were a lot of sites that Google updated on the 27th that seemed a little too good to be true. While there were a few others that dropped that I wouldn’t have expected.
Google.com dropped from a pr10 to a pr9 after the update on the 27th. And, now after this one they are back up to a pr10. I am sure they didn’t like seeing Facebook beating them for a little while with their pr10 to Google’s pr9.
Are they done tweaking and updating? Hard telling I have seen them follow up with just one little minor adjustment, and other times there seems to be several.
So once again if you are interested in Google Pagerank you might do some checking and exploring of your website.
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Thanks for sharing this information. It just fairly show how Google looks for ways to be able to accommodate blog owners and web master.
It is kind of interesting if you are a Google, seo, and technology fanatic.
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I think they are done for now, and we wont see a new update before September.
But I could have been without this update, due to 3 of my sites got updated once again and all was one down in pagerank.! 🙁
You never know about Google. They like to keep us guessing.
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It would be so nice to know what there next move will be, damn you could earn a lot of money on seo.
But no you can´t just look at the panda update, and all those large and small sites that got hammered by it.
So the best advice has to be, keep your seo clean or else you will get hammered at one time. 🙂
It’s quite shocking to know that when they updated, Google’s PR was just 9, and Facebook’s was 10!:D
I find it really tricky to avoid obsessing about this kind of stuff. PageRank is only for people who need to have a score to know they are doing well! It seems to have much less of an effect over what website gets ranked about which other websites…
Whenever there is a ranking system there will be those that seek more. Same with traffic rank and other stats. As long as there is some kind of number system or ranking system people will go after it. Some more than others.
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Google is teasing us. A lot of the sites rose last update, but now drops again
I used to obsess over pagerank all of the time. It actually was very frustrating how it was rarely updated. My site dropped from a PR3 to a PR2 in the last update, but I noticed something interesting. Many of my internal pages were ranking higher than my home page.
That is when I really started to question the whole PR of the home page as a way to value the site. We always say my site is PR this or PR that, but really that is just the home page.
Now I don’t pay much attention to PR and use mozrank as a guide to see how valuable a site and an individual page are. Gives me more information and they update it once a month for the most part, which is nice.
I have a page on the main part of this site that is just a simple php sitemap and it is a pr3. It’s not really worthy of a pr3. Pagerank used to concern me more in the past. I still follow it to some extent, but not nearly as much anymore. Mozrank is a great alternative to pagerank. I have the Mozbar installed on Firefox and use it often.
Ya, I agree. Although SEOMoz just updated the rank a few days ago and I took a hit from 43 down to 35 for DA. It seemed to have not found all my domains linking in as the count actually went down. Several other sites I frequent also took a hit in authority. Did you notice any movement in yours?
My SeoMoz DA went down slightly. It wasn’t too long ago the SeoMoz bar said I had about 5-7 times as many links as it does now. Maybe they have changed something. I notice similar happening at other sites I frequent.
I find it funny that Google dropped to PR9. But at least we know that they are not hardcoding their algo to make their site look better than it actually is. But then again, we all know that Google is still bigger than Facebook so PR10 or PR3, Google will remain as your (and my) friend.