New PR algo?

[whipnet]

Sorry if this has been discussed already.

I know that Google Page Rank does not mean a lot, and what you see in the greenbar is not what google has internally, and so forth. But I had 3 of my sites go from PR4 to PR5 and a bunch of 3's go to 4's. The PR5's I am obviously thrilled about, but did I earn them, or did google change it's algo for PR and it is now easier to obtain a 5.

Has anyone else noticed a sudden PR jump?

Any input appreciated.

[sjk]

I'm seeing it on some sites. Little green pixels are changing again.

[scanmonkey]

It "may be" or "may not be" the case that it is eaiser to get to PR4 or PR5, but, there are still only ten results on the first page of the search results.

[ryanforbes]

I noticed my internal pages jump from PR0 to PR4 but my homepage stayed the same PR1. Ive noticed other sites even msn.co.uk jumping up and down lately.

[DMC_34]

My site jumped to a PR6

[incrediblehelp]

PR0-PR5 in 6 weeks? Something doesn't add up.

Already a thread on this.

[greeneagle]

Congratulations David (DMC_34)!
You manage that business and website well.
It's been a long time coming.

Ken

[incrediblehelp]

I agree! I for one can say his gift baskets made a couple of my clients really happy over the holidays.

[idano]

My family web site went from 0 to 4.

You can read about it here -

http://www.idano.net/themastersfamil...-rank-4-29.htm

[scanmonkey]

Originally Posted by idano

The theory as to why this structure is even better is that Google assumes that anything within the root of a site is more important then something in a folder which is one level down.

Interesting Theory.

[scanmonkey]

Christmas Gift Baskets is a good site.

I'm wondering if good internal linking and good navigation are helping some of the sites that are getting a pr boost.

[idano]

scanmonkey -

Interesting Theory.

I worked for a large company where my boss was in charge of SEO for our sites.

This theory was the basis for all the naming conventions that we gave our various pages.

[whipnet]

Originally Posted by incrediblehelp

PR0-PR5 in 6 weeks? Something doesn't add up.

Already a thread on this.

?? This thread was started weeks before the one you link to. ??

[incrediblehelp]

But the one I linked to has some decent discussion on this same topic, unlike this one. Just trying to help.

Like I have said before this PR jump is basically valueless.

[rosiee007]

I noticed some of the internal pages get equal PR as the home page of the website. The PR5 website i'm working on stayed at PR5, but some of the recently added pages got PR5 during the PR update, whereas the old pages with PR2, PR3 and PR4 remained unchanged.

Also, i noticed that some of the internal pages of DMOZ dropped to PR0, but the home page remained unchanged.