I cannot believe these type of threads are already starting again! Pagerank updates REALTIME behind the scenes, the visual Pagerank you see is not a real-time value and therefore useless.
Nobody can predict the updates. Google does them whenever they want to. It can be anywhere from a couple of months to six months.
Yes, the visual Pagerank everyone can see is updated every 3 months. Your web page(s) real Pagerank is updated real-time behind the scenes.
In a search engine optimizers perspective, yes. It's a waste of energy and time to worry about Pagerank. Worry about search engine results positioning before you worry about Pagerank. Every notice how low PR sites still out rank high PR sites? Get with it boss
I'll be the first one to say it, as we all know it's a 100% guaranteed post coming any moment now... My aunties daughters boyfriends dogs girlfriends sisters pet hamsters old owners 19-year old daughters step-brother told me it will be on April 29th:| Ironically enough, this type of post is guaranteed to be made on DP at least 10 times a day, and you'll always get somebody who 'knows' when the next update will be. Further to that, the next PR update will be tomorrow....tomorrow never comes
Umm sir, I know how pagerank works thanks very much. And I already got my answer from the fellow who said it is within 3 months of the last update (if that's correct, and that's what I was looking for)
You got an incorrect, inaccurate answer then. The real answer is - [answer here]. There's no correct answer, nobody knows except from a select few from within the Google Corporation. The PR on the Google Toolbar was exported last April, then no updates until October 2007. 3 months later - there was an update in January 2008, and again at the end of February 2008. Now, this 'Quarterly' PR rumour is a load of bollocks. Google haven't - yet - exported the Toolbar PR four times in any year, it has been randomly, at least 5 times a year, as shown here. Have fun with that.
Pagerank is not pointless. Google's entire concept of a search engine was based around the concept of pagerank. If I have a website that has a pagerank of 6 optimized for "Yellow Rubber Duckies" with well written text following accepted page formatting rules. One could expect this to rank higher from a page with a Pagerank of 1 optimized the exact same way. It is true what you see on the toolbar is not the pages exact pagerank though. I like to think of it as a hint to what it may be. Honestly, the greenbar may just randomly fluxuate now to screw up link sellers. Pagerank is not pointless. I'm sure google treaks their algorithm all the time to change which values are deemed more imporant on scoring to keep us all guessing. Focus on everything you possibly can on a site. 1. Link Build with industry or related websites 2. add content to your site everyday 3. (Page Activity) update your homepage everyday or build a process to display new content on the homepage if deep in site. 4. Page Formatting - alt text in images - Title Tags - Meta Desc Tag (useful for telling users what to expect on the page - helps increase clickthrough through more info) - Comments - Keywords near beggining of body tag, middle, and end of boddy tag - bold main keyword in content - H1, H2, H3, H4 tags when needed - URL rewrites 5. Good Internal Link Structure with keywords in links to your landing pages There are more factors out there, just some that are easily managable from a user stand point.
I think you need to review the whole concept of Pagerank and it's purpose when valuing web pages via their algorithm. What you and majority of the internet think Pagerank is are very incorrect. Please read before you decided to reply, many many many people have this horrible misunderstanding of what Pagerank is. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PageRank#Algorithm
Save your typing strength, most people refuse to listen to reason and want to only hear what they want.
The misunderstanding continues. The periodic, visible toolbar export/update will generally be virtually identical to the real-time, internal PR number that Google computes frequently ... unless your pages' PR is in the process of going up or down at least one number in consecutive toolbar exports. If you experience no up or down movement in your toolbar PR from one export to the next, then your internal, more frequently computed PR was practically identical to the toolbar PR, even if that toolbar PR was months old. Run the math and think about it. If my home page was PR5 in the last toolbar PR export and is still PR5 in the next toolbar PR export, then it is a near certainty, mathematically, that it was a PR5 in between those two toolbar exports. The toolbar PR is a fairly reliable indicator for a stable-PR webpage.
First, you took out of context the quote you made of me, second if you reviewed the link I provided you and others in consecutive posts you would understand Pagerank value is not a whole number. Just because your "web page" remained a PR5 doesn't mean it's at the same "value" as it was during the prior update. Please take time to review the sources I've provided you before you attempt to "degrade" what I've said as you've already done, I've read your posts and know you understand what your talking about, and should have no problem researching and providing cites to your own conclusions. But to "assume" that if your "whole" number didn't change your web page has the same value is rather silly. Your opinion is still respectable and I await your reply http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PageRank#Simplified_algorithm |- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PageRank#Damping_factor http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probability_distribution http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/whats-an-update/
Woohoo another pagerank thread! I have to agree with previous posters, nobody but the big G knows when the update will happen. Pointless or not, pr is always a fun way to monitor your website's popularity. Usually they update every 3 months but these last months the pr got updated monthly so you can't really tell anymore
I think many of use are excited about the next page rank update but only google knows when this will take place.