Google PageRank is Updating
April 29th, 2008 by CourtActivity across my sites is showing that Google is currently updating toolbar PageRank, which is the PageRank that we can see with the Google toolbar.
I’ve seen updates in about 50% of my sites so far, including an update of my keyword sniping case study, the Colorado Lasik Surgery Guide. The site went from PR0 to PR3:
Unfortunately, Google seems to have squashed most of the PR checkers that allow you to check across multiple data centers, so many of you might not be able to see the changes quite yet. If anyone knows of a multi-datacenter PR checker that’s working, please let me know so I can post it for everyone.
The biggest winner so far is Daily Blog Tips, who is showing a PR7 on my toolbar:
Watch for a new lesson on preparing for the next update within the next few days. Subscribe by RSS if you want to make sure you don’t miss it. 
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April 29th, 2008 at 10:16 am
[…] Personally I have not seen any major changes yet, but some readers emailed me to let me know about a possible toolbar PageRank update (thanks Court). […]
April 29th, 2008 at 10:23 am
Hmm, interesting. My toolbar has been acting a little glitchy (WP-Dashboard showing as a PR9) so it might be that.
We’ll have to wait and see, I guess
April 29th, 2008 at 10:48 am
If my site is only a couple weeks old, will it be included in this round of PR updates? Not that I’m expecting much, but moving from unranked to 1 or 2 would be great!
April 29th, 2008 at 11:40 am
Probably not muscle! It could happen but for you an update right now isn’t the best timing. You’ll see something on the next update though.
April 29th, 2008 at 11:03 am
I am still seeing a PR5 on DBT, but I hope your toolbar is the right one :).
I am seeing a PR5 for your site, what was it before?
April 29th, 2008 at 11:42 am
I was a 5 before Daniel, so it doesn’t look like mine has changed. I’m still showing you as a 7, but those of us that have seen the cross-datacenter checkers that used to work know that some datacenters show one thing, and others show another. After a few days they all settle in on one thing - I hope for you it’s a 7 or at least a 6.
April 29th, 2008 at 11:53 am
I just noticed one of my keyword sniping sites I started 3 weeks ago inched up to PR 1. Hopefully some article marketing will boost it even more. Is this the first PR update since January?
April 29th, 2008 at 1:32 pm
There was actually a small update in February!
April 29th, 2008 at 12:13 pm
I found your site today and have spent ages going over the articles - thank you for giving so much helpful information.
Can you tell me what is the best PR checker tool? Something nice and simple please!
April 29th, 2008 at 1:22 pm
I would just use the Google toolbar Nicola. All of the other tools seem to me broken right now!
April 29th, 2008 at 12:17 pm
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April 29th, 2008 at 1:40 pm
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April 29th, 2008 at 7:25 pm
…sure enough, at home I show a page rank of 4 using the Google Toolbar. Weird… but aren’t we all the obsessive lot!! LOL
April 29th, 2008 at 1:43 pm
PageRank updates are quarterly? Does that mean every 4 months? Or how do they do those?
Thanks.
Heidi
April 29th, 2008 at 1:48 pm
Heidi there actually is no schedule. It happens three of four times per year though.
April 29th, 2008 at 4:28 pm
Thanks Court,
It does not surprise me about your answer.
Heidi
April 29th, 2008 at 2:09 pm
I haven’t seen a change over at onemansgoal.com yet. This does however make me excited enough to devote this upcoming week to link building to be ready for next update.
Court - how much of an increase you search engine traffic did you gain when your site went from a PR 4 to a PR 5.
Thanks in advance.
Marc
April 29th, 2008 at 3:23 pm
Well PageRank actually updates gradually - this happens every single day. The thing we call a PageRank update is actually the time when Google lets us know what PageRank is, not when it actually updates.
Since my PageRank actually updated over time, it’s hard to say how much traffic increased, but I can tell you that it did increase.
April 29th, 2008 at 2:17 pm
yeah, I went from a PR3 to a PR0!
don’t know why - except that I haven’t been post a lot. But other than that there isn’t a lot of advertising or outbound links. pretty strange.
April 30th, 2008 at 6:07 pm
Your PR is a 2 Wealth. Try using the www on your domain name to see the PR. I would 301 one to the other to avoid the confusion if I were you.
May 1st, 2008 at 4:49 am
Also, if you use Google Webmaster Tools, you can set the preference that you want for your site, whether it shows up with or without the http://WWW.
April 29th, 2008 at 2:19 pm
PR is hard to understand. I’m seeing a PR3 on one of my blogs that’s been going for 4 months with about 7 articles. It gets about 20 visitors a day from organic searches, and no regular visitors, and has two natural external links, and a bunch from one of my other blogs which is a PR3. My SERP hasn’t changed much, right from the start I was the 7th search result for my keywords. The only changes being that as I add more articles, I start ranking for different keywords, usually on the second page.
Boostranks is showing PR2, it’s newer and gets maybe 1 visitor a day from google. Has a bunch of external links from comments I’ve left on various blogs about blogging.
I can’t see the point of PR, it seems easy to get to PR3 and there’s little difference in SERP to an unranked page.
All my blogs are hosted from the one IP address, I wonder if that has some trust value in googles eyes. I’ve heard that links from the same IP address aren’t as valuable as from completely different IP/data centers.
April 29th, 2008 at 2:30 pm
Had a site that is 2 1/2 months old and it went from PR0 to PR1 today, so yes there was an update!
April 29th, 2008 at 2:38 pm
Weird. I’m not seeing a PR change on your Lasik site Court. I’m using the Google Toolbar which has it still at PR0
April 29th, 2008 at 3:25 pm
There are hundreds of Google data centers, and depending on where you live your toolbar will access a different one. Since they all update at different rates, it’s very common for us to see different PR. This will work itself out within the next couple days. It could still be a PR0, or it could be a PR1, PR2, or PR3. We just have to wait to see how it ends up.
April 29th, 2008 at 3:29 pm
Thanks Court. My site also doesn’t seem to have moved any. Hopefully it will at least improve to PR1 or PR2
April 29th, 2008 at 5:25 pm
I show it at PR3 in my toolbar.
April 29th, 2008 at 3:13 pm
I definitely see the PR update to 3 for Colorado Lasik Surgery on my end. Very motivating to see great progress in such a short amount of time!
April 29th, 2008 at 3:14 pm
I’m waiting to get out of the sandbox. Still showing PR0 as of thirty seconds ago. Who Links To Me seems to be working, although it shows no change in PR for any of my blogs today. 3,5 and 0, just like before.
April 29th, 2008 at 3:31 pm
It’s weird because I just checked two of my sites, one that had a PR1 and one with a PR0 and they were both showing PR3! I was excited that they’d both jumped up quite significantly.
But then I checked them again about ten minutes later and they’re both showing their original PR1 and PR0. I don’t know if that is a good thing or a bad thing but I hope they go back up to PR3 once Google has finished its updates.
April 29th, 2008 at 4:51 pm
Back down to a big PR0 for me. I guess that’s what I get for changing the comments to no-follow and playing by the Google rules. My site is almost a year old and 100+ posts. Court, I really don’t understand the PR thing. It just makes no sense at all. I was a 0 then 3 then 0 then 2 and now 0 again according to my toolbar. WTF??
Meanwhile one of my nothing niche blogs that has been live for 2 months is a PR 2.
April 29th, 2008 at 5:36 pm
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April 29th, 2008 at 6:10 pm
Hopefully my blog will jump to PR5, but I’m only dreaming
It’s amazing how DailyBlogTips is now PR7
-Mike
April 29th, 2008 at 6:14 pm
Hey… here’s a datacenter checker I found that is working, but slow…
http://oyoy.eu/google/pr/
This is LinkBuildingBible… but can you credit me with the datacenter checker find, as “DoFollow Diver” with the link i used for the comment.
Thanks!
April 29th, 2008 at 6:18 pm
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April 29th, 2008 at 7:14 pm
Definitely a PageRank going on my blog jumped from a 0 to 5 and work site went from 5 to 7 hot damn! Feels good to know I’m actually doing something right.
@Do Follow Diver thanks for the link to the datacenter checker that one works much better than the iWebTool one I had been using.
April 30th, 2008 at 8:23 am
Dang Kyle that’s legit! Want to link to me with that PR7?? J/k dude but seriously that’s just sick - congratulations.
April 29th, 2008 at 7:31 pm
Ha! I’m still sitting at a PR5 but that’s okay. I just got it at the end of March.
April 29th, 2008 at 7:54 pm
Congratulations on the PR7- hope it sticks!
I have modest changes . Most of my newer blogs went from PR0 to Pr3, one went to in inexplicable PR5 with MAYBE 2 backlinks. My http://www.bigfootwebmarketing.com crept up to PR3.
April 29th, 2008 at 8:22 pm
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April 29th, 2008 at 8:25 pm
Mine has jumped from 3 to 5!
April 29th, 2008 at 8:44 pm
Congrats on the jumps in PR. I was shocked when Matt Ridout dropped a comment on one of my sites congratualting me for my PR jump. Yicrosoft Directory Girl, which I just began in February, went from PR0 to 6. I was in a state of shock most of the day. Too cool. My SEO site only jumped one spot PR3 to 4. Still sweet though.
Congrats again. (I Sphunn btw)
April 29th, 2008 at 9:06 pm
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April 30th, 2008 at 1:54 am
Nice post. Hope you will get 8PR and it should get at least 5 for me
April 30th, 2008 at 2:04 am
Hi Court,
I was pleasantly surprised to see my two blogs now at PR6 and PR5 (previously PR5 and PR0 respectively). A good start to the day.
I hope you’re keeping well.
April 30th, 2008 at 8:25 am
Very nice David, your site for sure deserves a 6. BTW, I love the new design for DoshDosh - looks amazing.
April 30th, 2008 at 8:28 am
I appreciate that, Court. Cheers.
I notice you add ‘nofollow’ to various static pages here, such as contact, archives etc. Perhaps I should give that a shot, placing a little more emphasis on my portfolio and less on my featured articles page for instance.
April 30th, 2008 at 8:45 am
My thoughts on that David are that there’s no reason to pass sitewide PR to pages that are never going to rank for anything. My contact, about, advertise, terms and conditions, and privacy policy pages will NEVER rank for hardly anything, so I choose to pass that PR to pages that will.
Nofollowing your contact, featured articles, testimonials, and subscribe pages could help you to pass just a little more PR to pages that can rank - you want to give pages that could rank for something a sitewide link (you can use your popular articles section for this).
April 30th, 2008 at 9:29 am
You make good points.
What worries me is my sitelinks. If you search for David Airey on Google, I have some sitelinks below the result. They show ‘hire David Airey’, ‘contact David Airey’ etc, which are the ones I want.
Do you know if adding ‘nofollow’ to those pages within my site structure will remove them from the search result sitelinks?
April 30th, 2008 at 9:49 am
Yes David it probably will and I would say that having those pages in your sitelinks is probably more important for you, because of the nature of your site.
I would definitely leave those two pages as they are, considering that.
April 30th, 2008 at 10:08 am
Thanks buddy. I appreciate your time.
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April 30th, 2008 at 5:00 am
mine still not updated, I can see PR 3 on the toolbar
April 30th, 2008 at 5:14 am
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April 30th, 2008 at 5:15 am
I was quite (pleasantly) surprised when I saw that Google PageRank had updated. Definitely a good way to start the day!
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