I made PR update for my directories list and here are stats of changes PR Previous count After update count PR9 1 1 PR8 9 8 PR7 26 16 PR6 136 126 PR5 479 406 PR4 1266 1030 PR3 1313 1580 PR2 514 902 PR1 172 366 PR0 1506 987 It looks interesting for me. Looks like to improve PR on PR3 is not problem, but gain higher PR is more problematic, and also it is difficult to stay on higher PR. What do you think about it? I am also doing PR update of my software archives list when I finished I will write results here.
Stats for software archives PR8 13 7 PR7 35 42 PR6 92 80 PR5 164 144 PR4 229 172 PR3 76 107 PR2 8 58 PR1 15 26 PR0 129 125 It looks similar like for directories
These are very interesting statistics, thanks for posting them. It certainly looks like PR5 and higher is getting harder to get. I would guess this is carrying on a trend that started an update or two ago. Thanks again
Thanks for posting these stats, it's very interesting. PR is definitely getting harder to obtain, and I don't see this trend changing anytime soon. I think it's significant that there a now a lot more PR1's, whereas before that was fairly rare. I wonder if Google will start bringing out more notches on the PR scale? I mean, if this trend continues, all but the most popular sites will end up as PR 1 and 2, and the green bar will lose its meaning.
Thx for verifying whats been going on and you are correct that this does seem like google have made changes to were its harder getting higher PR rankings and the devaluation off ALL sites in general NOT just directories. thx malcolm
Obelia, you have true with PR1. It looks like it was some hole in Google PR algorithm. Usually pages from PR0 go straight to PR2. Now it looks that pages are spreaded over each PR.
I wouldn't exactly call it a hole. I think it's more of a case of PR being spread more thinly, so PR1 is actually easier to obtain. I do wonder if this is having some effect on the indexing threshold, however? It used to be the case that if your page was PR1, the chances were high that it wouldn't appear in the index, or might go straight to supplemental, because it didn't have quite enough PR to hold it there. So perhaps these PR1 pages are on their way out of the index soon, or Google is planning to keep them in and slightly lower their threshold for keeping pages indexed?
Yes mate --I can VOUCH that for you. The most premiere site of our land -- http://www.rediff.com was PR7 before the update. Being from the land of Billion people --this site has great alexa and I believe its Alexa is not manipulated. This site is PR6 now. All forums with FOLLOW tag has also come down --DP, daniweb and many many more. And many other sites have lost PR1 from their previous PR. So G's algo is definitely different now and the benchmark has increased.