Google Theories

This PR update (if is done) is the weirdest one. Sites that got more BL cached stay or dropped PR. New sites got some PR. Majority of people reporting PR0, 1, 2 and 3. Sporadic PR4.

Here is a few theories.

1) This wasn't a huge update and we haven't heard the last of it.
2) Google is planning to move to a more constant PR update and they are testing now.
3) They screw up the same as 2006 and begging of 2007.
4) Rumors are true and we are seeing the last days of the famous PR.
5) Google is cooking something with Yahoo to clean a little for the partnership.
6) They are smoking expired crack.

The one thing that is spinning in my head is that a few sites give me a link around the first week of July and they are showing on the BL capture. This BL snapshot is not that old and is not from June or May. This snapshot is around the 2nd week or so of this month.

 

it seems to me that there is some kind of "pr penalty" that they put in to the algorithm, because some sites that have backlinks are showing pr0... but they seem to have missed the boat on it because you hear of so many brand new sites that shouldn't be that relevant and yet they are getting pr2 and pr3

 

Yeah, I am moving more into the theory that they screw up and working to fix it. But let's see only they know.

 

funny thing is when we are already noticing some guys with 2 month old pr3 sites selling links on them lol

 

Indeed this was a weird update. Internal pages have lost rank and new sites are excelling.... while high, unique content sites, are not changing much.

 

I agree. This accurately describes what happened to all my sites in this July 08 update

 

In this PR update, I have not seen any PR of my pages being increased. Instead, few of my site's pages PR decreased

 

I believe something is not right. Yes they want to penalize directories, but why so many new sites from 1 week to 2 months old gain PR when older sites with natural BL from media coverage stay the same?

What is funny is that you could see this people selling links right away here on DP forums. OMG!

 

Just wanted to know what do you mean by 'more constant PR update'.....?

 

Just a theory, but want I mean is that they maybe planning to make the PR updates to run live instead of exporting every 3-4 months.

 

That 'live' PR update theory sounds interesting. Maybe the pagerank information would be updated like every week. It would kill the link selling business for sure. Let's say somebody sells a link on a PR 6 page on his site, and bam a couple of days later that same page is just PR 3. That would be crazy!

 

I believe doing business online can be from selling links to selling a product no doubt. But there is the people that manage to damage the industry. How? Simple they don't create quality.

Here is a nice example.

The guy builds a dog blog, fill it up with adsense. Goes to Google, copy the content from someone else. Then start spamming his website, fill the forums with crap just to get his link out. Then start doing pingbacks with nosense, fill digg with content from other people. PR update comes gets a PR3 of then you see them selling the links.

Yes, something like this a LIVE PR will make this sites worthless since imagine buying a PR6, 3 days later PR3. He will have to respond to the buyer. They will wont to give you the money back. Then you will see forums saying PayPal Sucks. Is true paypal sucks but it sucks more the people that just sweat copying others people content.



Any way is just a theory!

 

No idea, but I have a very fresh and new website that popped up with a PR3, while one older website with 4 times the backlinks (and same linking methods) dropped to a R3...and a medium aged website with 3x the backlinks held steady at PR2.

I don't know......

 

Ok from Matt Cutts

Either Google just apply the penalization and make so many sites drop or gain and we will see a new update soon when the penalization settle down. Or PR is seeing the last days of it.

 

i think this thread would be better titled "Google Conspiracy Theories"

 

No that's another topic where we will discuss how Larry Page will be using Google to become president of the US on 2012.

 

PR tends to be pointless and is so far behind the real algorithm that it has little benefit. The PR tool should just be removed. I have often had number 1 ranking sites with no PR beating out sites with massive PR. According to the tool. What a pointless tool.