Does anyone know exactly what PR levels Google classes as Low, Medium and High in Webmaster Tools? I've attached a screenshot of one of my crappy article directories as an example. On the Google Webmasters Tools page, if you view the source code it tells you the % of each green indicator. In this case i've got: High 0% Med 2% Low 76% Not Assigned 23% A site: command shows i've got 331 pages indexed, so from this we can conclude approx 76 pages will get new PR, a total of 251 pages will have some form of PR and 6 of these will have Medium PR. So... This post is both a question to who knows what exactly Google defines as Low, Medium and High PR plus it's demonstrating a trick some may not know about.
From what I've seen they just classify pr5 as the average. We all know that's not really the average, but that's what they say is average. So the 2% that's at pr5 means that your homepage is probably pr5. Low is the rest that does have PR. Non assigned is obviously the pages that don't have PR for whatever reason (either not indexed or banned).
I agree with this. When I started to get some green in the Medium bar my site went to PR5 after the next update.
Looking at my account it looks like PR6 is counted as medium. My directory has a PR6 home page, and PR5 top categories. Webmaster tools is reporting only one page as medium pagerank, so that would be 6.
Hi, I have looked over this area of the tools this week and am still so confused. I like the way you have explained some good points, thank you. This week is the first time there were even any results showing up in this tool area for me. Finally I was able to tell Google YES, okay I like the tool I am looking forward to analyzing the numbers here, but am studying hard to figure them out. For some reason, everytime I click on "download this data" it will NEVER let me. what's up, lol. My results show that I have some with zero, some with low and others with medium. Thank you for sharing this with me (us). (newish)
I have a website which has got some green in the "Medium" two days ago. Before that it was showing green in only "PageRank not yet assigned". This website is N1Q Link Directory and it has got PR3 in the last 28 April update. Directory has 2100 pages indexed in Google. And according to the source code of page: Medium %2 Low %64 Pagerank not yet assigned %34. But I have another website which is also PR3 and it does not show any green in "Medium", only shows in Low and PR not yet assigned. I am really confused about it. If the Medium means PR5, why does Medium have some green for N1Q? Will it be a sign for a new PR update in early June or even May?
I'm of the opinion that this is the closest we can get to real time PR. And it probably means that since the 28th untill now you have recieved a PR5 for your homepage.
I find that this tool is pretty inaccurate, I seen my pagerank value the same through various updates from PR3 to PR4 to PR5, the figure in webmaster tools never changed.
Ditto that it is not that accurate. In fact, I've seen the "page with highest page rank" change from one day to the next ... for the month or two prior - D'OH! ;-)
What that means is that the webmaster tool has a different timing as to when pr is assigned - it's probably more accurate then toolbar PR. So yes, I'd say it's a sign that in the next toolbar PR update, your first site will have a higher PR (say pr5 or pr6).