PR Update Underway?

DreamingEagle · #1 (**permalink**) 07-14-2005, 09:35 PM

Swore I would never do this, but my site appears to be going from 5 to 6. Could the update be underway?

jacobwissler · #2 (**permalink**) 07-14-2005, 09:36 PM

There has been an update here of both the green bar and the number of backlinks. Looks great!

steve_avs · #3 (**permalink**) 07-14-2005, 10:04 PM

I can confirm, backlinks increased from 233 to 918, but PR dropped from 6 to 5....uuuhhhh??

Steve

beanstalk · #4 (**permalink**) 07-14-2005, 10:11 PM

This one's definitely an odd one.

Raised the bar again did they?

cbp · #5 (**permalink**) 07-14-2005, 10:27 PM

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but PR dropped from 6 to 5....uuuhhhh??

There is a general downward tend of PR for everyone at every update. PR is a finite amount, so as the www grows, the amount available for each site decreases --- so you need even more links to maintain PR, let alone increase (unless its a new page/site). Your previous PR could have been 6.00000000001 and is now 5.99999999999 - not much of a difference.

CBP

**brian.mark** · #6 (**permalink**) 07-14-2005, 11:57 PM

Since we had done a wide-scale restructuring just before the last update, it's nice to see that our pages (other than the homepage) now have PR. What an improvement. Maybe we won't have so many people refusing to link to us now.

Brian.

petermas · #7 (**permalink**) 07-15-2005, 02:58 AM

YES! My site went from PR5 to 6! Links still not counted tho...
Looks like all the pages linked to the home page got a PR5 and those under PR4 etc... Only exception my page
http://www.annamariavolpi.com/how_to_eat_spaghetti.html
that jumped from zero to 5.
Things started to pick up when I started adding new pages, original articles and content. This doesn't look like just an algoritm. Couldn't some humans be looking at the sites?
Pietro

maxseo · #8 (**permalink**) 07-15-2005, 04:18 AM

It could be true. There might be some human at Google fitted with 1000 999GHz processors checking out all 8 bilion pages

DMC_34 · #9 (**permalink**) 07-15-2005, 09:03 AM

The logic of PR doesnt make sense to me anymore. PageRank was supposed to measure IBL's vs OBL's. My new site has been through 2 PR Toolbar updates. The pages with the least amount of IBL's have PR 5's. The pages with the most IBL's have 4's. Even a 1 month old page with NO outside IBL's now has a PR 5. I find that amusing.

DMC

onelife · #10 (**permalink**) 07-15-2005, 10:23 AM

Around a year ago I was very interested in PR, but once I realised how little impact it made on my sites traffic I quickly forgot about it and removed
the google toolbar.

For well over a year we have been a PR4 site, starting with 30 visits per day and now to over 7,000 per day and all with the same PR4. Our traffic really boosted once we stuck on adsense, don't know why because it's not supposed to biased but we went from 500 visits per day to 4,500 per day in around three weeks and it keeps on going up.

I'd love to have a higher PR than my competitors but only to say that I have. Even though I still beat them in ranking terms even with there PR6 sites.

Maybe one day I'll be allowed into DMOZ and all will change?

dburdon · #11 (**permalink**) 07-15-2005, 10:33 AM

It seems to me that the variation in page rank between pages on the same site is much lower than previously. Maybe the Google algo has changed again?

kerer99 · #12 (**permalink**) 07-15-2005, 01:07 PM

Yay - finally! I've been waiting soooo long for this.

Hope the updated benefited all of you. :)

derrickcm · #13 (**permalink**) 07-15-2005, 03:38 PM

Hi All,

Does anyone know how long it usually takes PR to fully adjust during an update? Inbound links from one of my sites increased from 32 to 268 at last check, but the PR4 of the home page hasn't changed... although I noticed that all new pages now have PR. Should I assume everything is finished? Thanks!.

markhallgate · #14 (**permalink**) 07-15-2005, 04:56 PM

my site has been updated and it seems to make more sense this time, previously my highest pr pages were the gallery pages and the lowest were actually usefull free information pages. This time it has swaped round and most of my pages have increased a little in pr.

montytx · #15 (**permalink**) 07-15-2005, 07:08 PM

My main site went from a 3 to 4 and another from 2 to 3.So Im pretty happy. I just wish they would find my BLs.

cbp · #16 (**permalink**) 07-15-2005, 09:41 PM

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Does anyone know how long it usually takes PR to fully adjust during an update?

It dosen't - the PR that Google exports to the toolbar for public display would hae been incorporated into the search results as long as two weeks ago .... thats why its such a non-event.

CBP

wavedancing · #17 (**permalink**) 07-15-2005, 10:06 PM

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Originally Posted by montytx

My main site went from a 3 to 4 and another from 2 to 3.So Im pretty happy. I just wish they would find my BLs.

About 10 of my sites from 0 to 2 or 3. 1 site from 0 to 5 and one from 0 to 4. A couple of my other sites went from 4 to 5 or 3 to 4. No PR drops for all of my 25 sites. And all brand new sites get PR at least 2. It seems like I have no reason to be unhappy but I still wish it increase more. Then I remember that PR is not important. So ...?

flood6 · #18 (**permalink**) 07-15-2005, 10:55 PM

Wow. My first PR7 site... I registered the domain a while ago but only put it up a couple of months ago. It's the site with the Firefox extension in my sig; mostly a patchwork of stuff I had hosted elsewhere (so a lot of 301's from established pages).

I'll be the first to point out that PR is becoming less relevant to SEO but it's still somehow satisfying to see all that green.

cspelts · #19 (**permalink**) 07-15-2005, 11:31 PM

Congratulations flood6! I want a PR7 too!

DreamingEagle · #20 (**permalink**) 07-16-2005, 01:52 AM

This update appears stuck, however. http://www.thisisouryear.com/?p=predict. This tool shows 18 Google data sources.

My site went to PR6 on 8 of the 18 centers over 24 hours ago. It stayed stuck that way until just now when suddenly I have slipped back to 5 on one of them.

I've never seen any kind of a rollback, but am getting a bit nervous.

DreamingEagle · #21 (**permalink**) 07-16-2005, 01:57 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by derrickcm

Hi All,

Does anyone know how long it usually takes PR to fully adjust during an update? Inbound links from one of my sites increased from 32 to 268 at last check, but the PR4 of the home page hasn't changed... although I noticed that all new pages now have PR. Should I assume everything is finished? Thanks!.

It's usually done in 36 hours, but I've been stuck at PR5 on 10 of the 18 data centers I'm monitoring, and just backslid by one, now reporting PR5 on 11 of them. The other 7 are reporting PR6.

Hard to celebrate until what's done is done.

punith · #22 (**permalink**) 07-16-2005, 06:15 AM

pr of our site increased from 6 to 4 but ther is no backlink updation for me

DreamingEagle · #23 (**permalink**) 07-16-2005, 10:48 AM

This is the one they should have called the Bourbon update.

mystic · #24 (**permalink**) 07-18-2005, 06:32 AM

ok i don't get it. I've had a pr0 ever since i had my website untill today! I've got a pr3 on my home page and pages on my link bar and each category page of my directory r pr2's now. I'm happy. But I thought once this happened i'd actually get that much traffic, but i realized i haven't got one hit from google all of today or yesterday even with a pr3.

So what exactly am i supposed to do, to get tons of traffic from google if PR doesn't mean anything?