Could this have anything to do with the canonicalization update (http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/canonicalization-update/) or is this a real PR update.. Feel sorry for Htmlhelp, if it's true
Well thats true, I found another site that has dropped from a PR8 to a PR7.. but I don't see any changes on any of my sites.. I hope I wont meet the same harsh fate as a few others has..
What possible difference does it make as to what the Toolbar Pagerank says your site is? It has absolutely NO seo contributions whatsoever. It is a 'gimmick' it updates every 4 months, it is not owned by Google it is copywrite to Larry Page hence Page Rank - it shows out of date information, it does not tell you anything even vaguely to do with how well your site is optimized - it does not tell you about traffic, yet everyone and their dog asks -Why am I a PR4 and not an 8 - well congratulations, you have been had. It's a Gimmick. Now, Internal pagerank that's a different ball game, but Google guards its secrets.
I see no change for my sites as yet--all the same. But have been experiencing lots of fluctuations of backlink counts by iwebtool's tool.
Well that may be true but there are still very few signs we web masters have on have we preform in the eyes of Google. Rankings and Page rank is two factors that we can measure to see if we are doing something right or wrong. the toolbar pagerank is snapshot of Googles internal page rank and even tough it's outdated when it's published it's still a good measurement of how Google value a site. If you are more trusted in Googles eyes the less you have to worry about making changes that may or may not effect your rankings in an negative way.
I can confirm that there is no update going on yet. `What he meant was (by that pic): "God freaking damn it! stop it with these threads already, dont make me get my laser guided spear gun!" at least i do
i also donot see pr updates on any of my sites.but when i check backlinks ,number of backlinks have been decreased
i have seen that many people are telling that back links are updated and some of member have experienced in pr change. i think it is on the way.
I thought i should share this. cannonocolization is when google runs these processes, where they see which of the urls on a domain is more popular the one with www or the one without the www and clean out the less popular results, thats why backlinks go down and in some cases pr too.
I think the PR update started. I've noticed changes to few sites i am familiar with, and although my home pages stay still, some of the inner pages gained/lost PR. Additionally, very strange(cos i hadn't much time for SEO these months) but last 3-4 days the traffic to most of my sites has doubled....while the back-links google shows are now twice less!
Just wait patiently GUYZ and GALS. It will happen when and where at the right moment. Your just experiencing the TWILIGHT ZONE at the moment.
I can confirm that about a week or so ago there was some very minor changes on a handfull of sites, this is not the main export though, we saw this last time a bit of a staggered start update.