Boys and Girls,
Let's get it STRAIGHT! All we have to do here is resolve different "positions":
There are 2 different
PR updates! Let's call them: "Public" and "Private".
GOOGLE's "Private" update happens in their
Directory very often (approximately monthly by some accounts). It really isn't that "Private" since they have a "Green Bar" to the left of every listing in every category!
The "Public" update is supposed to happen "once a quarter or every 3 months. This is the one that has been the most infamous and is in more public view, because it is the one that shows up in everyone's GOOGLE TOOLBAR. I hope by now that most Site owners and Webmasters know that the "Public" representation of “PageRank” is not anything but representative of the more complex "Private" or "Internal" model.
The "Public" Toolbar representation of
PR is not near as exacting as the "Internal" model, which isn't so "Private" after all, because anyone that knows how to find their listing in the GOOGLE Directory can find their more frequently updated, more comprehensively based "Internal"
PR at any time!
The "Public"
PR (that damn toolbar) representation of the more comprehensive model causes a lot of grief, but herds everyone into the "performance corral". It would be real short-sighted of GOOGLE to toss aside a "Marketing Tool" that has become a "Holy Grail" for the "Unknowing" (General Populus) like that, wouldn't it?
There must have been a million threads on the difference between these 2 distinctly different PageRank representations at WebProWorld and all the other Webmaster and
SEO forums out there!
You know what though?
Neither "PageRank" ranking matter too much!
What matters is real-time Marketing Data!
Neither
PR representation is "Real-Time".
What you want is a consistent and relevant method of monitoring SERPs and SERP results vs changes made in “REAL TIME”!.
"Public PageRank" is updated 4 times a year.
"Internal (Private
PR) is updated about once a month.
SERPs are updated constantly.
Which do you want to base your change results on?
Let's don't get lost in this "Hash" here!
I hope everyone has access to daily and even minute-to-minute server stats, wherever you host yourselves and your clients!
Otherwise you are just wondering around NAKED IN THE DARK”!
Ken