Yes, Google called me and told me the same. The next update will happen when it happens. Knowing when it will happen changes nothing.
Well that's not true. If you know when it'll happen, you wouldn't have to keep wondering when it'll happen, and you wouldn't have to go on boards to ask when it'll happen, i.e. you wouldn't stress about it anymore. There's a very big difference. If you're going to dismiss people, you should probably try to be a little smarter about it.
For now, build plenty of inbound links. Develop content that people will want to see and then when the next update occurs you will be glad you did.
I agree with Worldwid, if you get streesed out wondering when the PR update will be you seriously need to learn more about SEO
This type of comment always cracks me up. The only person you could have heard this from is just another person speculating when it's going to happen. 1 hour worrying about when the PR update is going to happen is 1 hour wasted on creating quality website content or marketing your website or enjoying life! No offence
I do actually. October 17th at 22:49 GMT The backlink update is coming September 6th at 01:12 GMT Good luck everyone.
What? I think you missed my point. Knowing when the update is changes NOTHING. You should still be SEO'ing, building links, etc, constantly, not just right before an update or whatever the logic is behind knowing when a update is. SERP(s) change every day, not just during an update. Fryman Said it best on the first page -
Everyone assumes that the poster is stressing out on when the update will be. I am sure the poster is stressed, but it could be an investor, client, or worse - mate - asking 'When are we going to start getting vistors from Google' or 'Why is this not making any money?' And an answer of 'Just let me keep working on content and backlinks' is probably not good enough.
Even if either of those are the question, the anwser isnt going to be "The Next PR Update". I have a site with a PR of 5 still stuck in the sandbox....
My point was that we don't know why the person wishes to know, which is why I hate posts like this one. Knowing the decision to be made based on the information would probably result in more helpful answers rather than guesses as to the date of the next update. It could be that the poster wishes to know if now is the time to add products for Christmas or if waiting until September or October would be better, if it is too late to buy some links and have them affect the next update, should we launch a redesign now, etc. When the last one was is important for decisions such as these, and we know it takes a certain period of time for Google to make the calculations needed to reorder the serps. If the reason was Christmas inventory, my answer would be that there is likely to be only one more update before Christmas. Since we just had one, and it seems to take at least 3 months, October is a good guess. I would start adding items in early to mid-September to get serps based on them. Nothing turns me off in a brick and mortar store like seeing Christmas items showing up about October 1, as seems to be happening more and more. The same would go for a website, I don't start shopping until November anyway. But you have to provide for lead time in either situation, the difference is that on a website you are basing it on the search engines that bring visitors, not on when the visitors get their Christmas bonus. Scary Halloween masks next to Santa Claus. No wonder this world is sooo messed up. (Dad gestures generally toward seasonal shelves and says "That's the guy that comes down our chimney on Christmas...")
Actually, I am sort of new to this and wanted to know basically two things: when was the last one, and how long of an interval is to be expected between updates. Stressing out? No chance.
If I would know precisely when Google update would happen this time, perhaps, I would postpone big changes that I did to the website and therefore didn't lose high PR on the google bar.
I'd suggest you take your own advice, toocool. What worldwid says is absolutely correct. There is no way to predict when the next toolbar PR update will occur -- anybody who says "I predict it will be in {insert month of choice here}" isn't doing any more than taking a wild guess, and that and 2 cents will buy you absolutely nothing. As for stressing about it, as Fryman says that's a pointless exercise. Actual PR is being updated more or less continuously, as are the Google rankings, so the only thing that changes at the time of a PR update is the public display of the PR for a particular page. And that is going to be accurate only for a few hours to a few days, after which it is a pretty but inaccurate page attribute until the next time the toolbar PR is updated.