my blog got PR 0 from PR 3 because its all out going links! no backlinks coming from it! The PR update this time won't do such impact compare to last update!
I cannot even say if PR update started for me as none of my 5/6 sites show any changes. Well they do show a tendency of disappearing from serps and then returning back when big G wishes them to see there. One of my sites disappeared 3 days ago and am still hoping for it to come back one day.
Only on one of my sites but that one has a site, forums and a blog on it but the blog and forums are ranking the highest even though the main page has 10x more backlinks to it than the blog or forums.
I don't have a clue why you people seem so obsessed by PR here but as far as serps are concerned, it seems to have stabilized and everything back to normal on my side.
Probably because PR is one of many factors, used by Google, to determine where ones pages appear in the SERPS. Source: http://www.google.com/corporate/tech.html
The two unnecessary evils in selling advertising on your website are PR and Alexa rank. Let me also remind you that the vast majority of webmasters covet PR and if you don't believe me that PR is important, go try trading links with a PR3+ site using a PR0 site and see how far you get. btw, I don't think anybody on this thread is "obsessed", please take a look at the thread title again and notice this discussion is not specifically about PR but about the sloppiness and unpredictable results from this update.
Ive noticed exactly the same thing Well, its not a new site but its never been SEOd and is a hobby forum. It was PR 0 last time I checked and now its a PR5 Another site I have worked very hard to SEO, is stuck on a poxy PR2 maybe Google is now giving lots of love to unoptimised sites?
I have website with unique content and Google either adds or deletes backlinks once a week. SERP constantly changes. I guess Google has unstable random from some list
I meant the fake entertainment green bar you see in your toolbar, the one that does not reflect your true "link popularity". You will never really know your real PR(tm) "Page Rank" is just rhetorics, things that google is good at it seems. A nice-sounding name that sounded nice a few years ago. MSN, YAHOO and almost all other search engines base their serp algorithm on backlinks. But of course
I agree and have had countless experiences with this issue. It's quite sad, when you think most webmasters running after a fake green bar instead of 'relevancy'.
To me it makes little or no sense to judge trading a link with an appropriate site because their current pagerank is PR0 or less than yours. From my experience, when my sites were PR0, I tried to get a few PR2-4 sites in my niches to trade with me and 90% of them refused. Now, after my the same sites of mine are PR3 and PR4, I'm finding the same people who refused to trade with me previously wanting to trade with me now because I have a higer PR than them. Personally, if I like a particular site, I'll trade a link with them. Why not? I don't care what PR they are or what Google rates them, I like to provide my visitors with relevant information and links. This way, you build community and friends.
This was a very sloppy pr update. I have some sites with higher pagerank, but Google never finished updating pagerank for some high level internal pages.
Somebody from Denmark just commented on my blog that they're still seeing updates in progress so that makes me wonder if it's over yet?? Is anybody in the US seeing any fluctuations still ? I haven't seen any changes since the weekend before last.
Thats interesting to hear Bryce.... Im uk and Ive not noticed any change since yesterday when once site gained pR. but the sites I expected to go up, have not!!! yet..
Yes we are still seeing updates, im currently experiencing them. I have come to the conclusion that the sloppy updates are just tweaking by google. And there will be a big PR update within a couple of weeks.