Comments on: Real PageRank Update In Progress

By: mark

mark — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 09:20:40 +0000

Still waiting from june for my first google points …

By: Randy Roedl On Wordpress Blogs

Randy Roedl On Wordpress Blogs — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 03:52:15 +0000

[...] It looks like there might be a PageRank update going on as well, and several sites that used to sell text link ads experienced a drop in PR (e.g., Entrepreneurs-Journey). [...]

By: Deceth

Deceth — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 16:50:38 +0000

Still no sign of a change on any of my sites!

By: State of blogging and some | Interesting Observations

State of blogging and some | Interesting Observations — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 06:00:28 +0000

[...] If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Gosh.. The entire blogosphere seems to be pre-occupied with text-link ads and Google dropping page rank for some sites… [...]

By: Des Walsh

Des Walsh — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 02:00:39 +0000

Unchanged at 5 on one, 4 on another.

By: Anne-Marie

Anne-Marie — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 01:44:57 +0000

The song remains the same – no changes on any of my sites…yet. And yes, I heard about that paid link thing too. Seems they’re checking blogger’s “Advertise Here” pages.

By: Nelson

Nelson — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 21:16:00 +0000

I think most us won’t be seeing any pagerank changes for at least another couple of weeks, Well, that is according to Matt Cutts. but surely they are going after paid links and some other things unethical in the eye of Google, hopefully for those of us that have been good boys/girls to Google will have a reward….

By: Jon - Art of Money

Jon - Art of Money — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 15:17:13 +0000

To be honest, I'm still not seeing any evidence of a full page rank update. The best indicator being that well linked newer sites will have a PR. My guess is that your site, being quite prominent, has been tagged with a penalty for selling text links. Here's an article by Danny Sullivan that confirms that Google is doing this as a way to discourage search engine manipulation by devaluing paid links.

By: Colin McDougall

Colin McDougall — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 07:43:48 +0000

Hey Folks,

Colin McDougall here, I don’t really give a darn about Google PageRank (OK, yeah I do a bit but not much)

What I saw on the week-end was a drop from number 2 to 4 on the keyword credit card applications (Is it OK to mention specifics here???)

But saw that my traffic is actually way up on long tail search terms.

If you have dropped in rankings then consider what you have been doing to promote your site lately and do less of that.

What I have focussed on over the last 3 years is focus on branding a site and then these fluctuations in the Google algo matter less and less.

A little motivation for all reading this:

Do not panic – Do not get off track – Stay positive

I have seen my rankings plummet over night many times over the last 6 years and I have yet to return to the corporate world. In fact these fluctuations always ending earning me waaaaay more in the end.

Remember, Google have humans and humans make mistakes.

Action plan for those affected:

Produce more great quality content weather it be written, audio, images or videos

PS. That’s a hint to those that only have text on their site

By: David Airey

David Airey — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 07:39:47 +0000

Hi Yaro,

I was recently penalised for having paid links on my blog, and not having rel=”nofollow” in the link code. It’s something I think you need to be wary of.

My Google search positions plummeted and you can read how I reversed the penalty on my blog.

I hope your PR decline is temporary.

By: Japanese SEO

Japanese SEO — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 06:52:26 +0000

I have seen no change, too.
I wonder if there is anybody who has enjoyed increase?

By: Carlo Selorio

Carlo Selorio — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 02:08:28 +0000

Nope… Still no change for me.

It looks like the big boys that have tonnes of links to their site are dropping in Pagerank.

I wonder what googles benchmark for pagerank ratings.

I would love to know that.

Cheers,
Carlo Selorio

By: raj

raj — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 19:11:52 +0000

There’s been a penalty going on, on and off, for about 2 months. Several site owners are complaining of drops from PR5 to 4 and even to 0

By: Gnorb

Gnorb — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 18:34:50 +0000

No movement. Still at a PR5. Thanks for the heads up, though. I haven’t seen a major move since… March, IIRC(?). Of course, maybe my site’s just a very, very solid 5.

By: Brown Baron

Brown Baron — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 18:20:32 +0000

Live PR is showing no changes so far. I wonder if there’s an update happening or just a penalty sweep. I hope it’s an update heh.

By: Google Page Rank being updtaed. | Digital-Musings.com

Google Page Rank being updtaed. | Digital-Musings.com — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 16:53:51 +0000

[...] rank update, in various forums and many famous blogs are writing about it.Read about this first on Yaro Starak’s Blog. As far as I am concerned I am not very hopeful for a increase in rank, as I didn’t get [...]

By: Adnan

Adnan — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 16:24:25 +0000

No change for me, still at PR5. Man, that is a real bummer Yaro – hope it doesn’t affect your advertising income too badly.

Troubling times for us all.

By: Jacob from Small Business Lessons

Jacob from Small Business Lessons — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 15:14:50 +0000

No movement on all 5 of my domains.
Perhaps not updated yet for me.

By: Tim Broder

Tim Broder — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 14:49:52 +0000

No change for me, still unranked, hopefully I at least get a rank out of the update

By: Harrison

Harrison — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 14:37:17 +0000

No changes on mine though I wish to see some increase on the PR.

However, I found that PR is no more important. Just take TLA as an example, they measure your site using Link popularity and not PR. Reviewme.com also same. So I think we should consider the overall traffic ranking of our site rather than just care and concentrate on PR.

By: Ken Xu

Ken Xu — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 14:11:28 +0000

From Unranked to ’0′ zero. It happened last month and no sign of change until today.

By: Meg

Meg — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 13:21:56 +0000

After being “unranked” for 5 months I’m now enjoying a “0″. Hope it’s temporary. Noticed your drop over the weekend – bummer. Suspect it’s widespread…

By: Rob Schultz

Rob Schultz — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 13:15:17 +0000

No movement for me either…yet (I hope). I’m still up in the air as to whether or not Google is going to do away with the PageRank system. They’ve certainly evolved since the last round of updates (including changing to Universal Search). I’m wondering if this metric isn’t outdated?

By: Leigh

Leigh — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 12:28:10 +0000

Yup, I had a drop on my main site and the rest seem to have stayed the same.

Seems Google is taking page rank to penalise for paid links now instead of SE filters because too many people complained.

By: chica with issues

chica with issues — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 12:21:52 +0000

No movement for me either. My newer sites still have no PR and my older sites still have the same PR.

By: Fiar

Fiar — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 11:37:28 +0000

I don’t even really know how to know what my page rank is, or was.

By: WizCoder

WizCoder — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 10:48:20 +0000

Read from a lot of blog about their Pr dropping, must be algorithm change.

By: Caroline Middlebrook

Caroline Middlebrook — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 10:25:33 +0000

No movement for me – still unranked! Still, at least from this position the only way is up I don’t think many people find page rank all that important. Unless you’re buying and selling links based on the ranking, it’s just a pretty green bar.