Google’s Major Pagerank Update
Saturday, October 31, 2009 18:19
Yesterday, i.e. on the 30th of October 2009 was the year’s 2nd major Pagerank update carried out by Google. This is a ‘phenomenon’ seen once every three to four months where many of the webpages across the web get an updated PR. Infact our(Techfrog.org’s) Pagerank has been updated to PR1 from the previous PR0. Since there are billions of Webpages, the information is yet to be completely updated across all global Google Datacenters.
This move was awaited anxiously by many thousand SEOs and Webmasters across the globe after Google had announced that Pagerank would be removed. Though it has been removed from Google’s webmaster tools, the recent update means that it will stay for now. Google’s engineers denied that PR would be stripped off Google’s Algorithm, after all its among the most targeted factors by most SEOs though it may not determine your sites position in the SERPs.
One thing i noticed personally is that many high PR sites have lost their PR i.e. their PR has reduced, however this is not the case with all. The PR value of many of the backlinks i have been monitoring for quite some time now have been dropped. Infact 26 ‘PR5′ pages from three different high authority(at the IBM/MS level) sites have a Pagerank of 2-3 now. I guess the trust to pages from within high PR sites is being reduced. ‘Maybe’, just maybe some major algorithmic changes including the Caffeine update are underway.
Update : You can use the following to check the pagerank of a page :
- Searchstatus (Firefox Add-on)
- LivePagerank 0.9.6 (Firefox Add-on)
- Prchecker.info
- Whatsmypagerank.com
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Debojyoti says:
November 1st, 2009 at 3:22 PM
What’s a caffeine update? Anyways I got to 2 from 0.
Techfrog says:
November 2nd, 2009 at 7:46 AM
Congrats on your PR2.
The Caffeine update is supposedly Google’s major Algorithmic upgrade where many factors relating to the search algorithm would be updated.
To see where you stand once the update would be done, you can check for your keyword here : Google Caffeine.
For some more details you can check here : Will Google’s Caffeine disrupt search rankings?
Stephen Akins says:
November 2nd, 2009 at 8:18 PM
PageRank doesn’t mean anything at all anymore. See the following:
http://stephenakins.blogspot.com/2009/06/gumbozumbo-pagerank-experiment.html
Sydney M says:
November 2nd, 2009 at 8:28 PM
Hello Stephen,
Well, i won’t completely agree with you on this. The value of Pagerank has dramatically decreased in the past few years specially since ‘the year of Spam’(2004). I read your article, i completely agree on the fact that a PR0 page can outrank a PR5 page depending on relevancy.
But, Pagerank is still among those 200 mostly unknown factors that determine the ranking of a site on the SERPs, so also Pagerank of a page determines the value of a backlink of another site placed on it apart from the relevancy and authority of the domain.
scheng1 says:
November 29th, 2009 at 2:03 PM
I hope they do the next one in December. I hope to see my two blogs reaching PR3.
mas says:
May 16th, 2010 at 10:55 AM
I had to collect data.
Thanks for the information.
Andy Lie says:
July 11th, 2010 at 11:05 PM
I also do not agree with Stephen. Many people can make money because of their great blog’s pagerank. You can check it out at many webmaster forum out there.
Bijeeta says:
July 26th, 2010 at 9:29 AM
I was expecting pr update early this month but still checking… I hope I can pump up my sites pr like that of cartoon animation:-)
Stephen Akins says:
July 28th, 2010 at 2:21 AM
Andy: What do you actually mean when you say: “Many people can make money because of their great blog’s pagerank”?
I THINK you mean that many sites get lots of visits from having prominent listings in Google’s search engine results for targeted search terms. That’s not at ALL the same thing as saying those sites have good PageRank – as I demonstrated in that old post of mine.