Google ‘Toolbar’ PageRank is updating this week, in what seems to be the first PageRank update of 2008. Barry points to this Webmaster World thread about sites being penalized and dropped down to a zero.
Some of the webmasters are reporting that the issue may be because of duplicate content. For those of you who remember (most readers should) there was a major toolbar PageRank update at the end of last year where Google lowered the toolbar PageRank of some sites that were openly selling links.
Personally, I have not seen any of the sites I visit or work with change in PageRank, but some of the members of this Digital Point thread report that their PageRank is also increasing.
Any changes in your Google Toolbar PageRank?
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22 responses so far ↓
Pablo Palatnik on Jan 10, 2008 at 9:39 am
Loren, I believe the pagerank update is heavily being weighted and affecting sites with duplicate content.
One of my sites, not recently, but about 2 months ago, went from a PR 4 to 0.
This may be a cause of a few things though but duplicate content could be one of the main issues.
Website Optimization - Terry Reeves on Jan 10, 2008 at 10:55 am
I have been waiting for this update! I have been doing a great deal of work on many sites and I look forward to the token reward that Google hands out periodically.
SEO on Jan 10, 2008 at 2:07 pm
Nothing here…maybe will happen this weekend. Not very excited about this anyway
Ray Blanchett on Jan 10, 2008 at 3:26 pm
Pr update!
Well done everyone who received pr reward.
My personal website received 19 pages of pr3, the same as the homepage well before the October 2007 update, possibly for unique content and deep linking. No clear evidence of a major update at present for 2008. Maybe this is an adjustment before the periodic update. Big word maybe! As an academic this topic makes me laugh as much when webmasters talk about how to get edu links.
Prashant Kumar Pracheta on Jan 10, 2008 at 5:00 pm
Hello Friends………
Its a gr8 news for us………
its time for seeing updation in page rank .
Jacqulyn Richey - Las Vegas on Jan 10, 2008 at 11:06 pm
Just transferred from a template provider to a drupal based site, so I’m seeing quite a few of the new urls showing page rank.
John on Jan 10, 2008 at 11:35 pm
I do not know Google’s PR had updated, i will check my sites later.
Kevin on Jan 11, 2008 at 4:45 am
I’ve been reading a few different reports (one of my sites included) where the internal pages of the site have been updated but the homepage has not as of yet. Honestly I’m not sure what’s going on. I’ll just wait it out, see what happens in a few days I guess ….
Roy on Jan 11, 2008 at 10:47 am
My site are experiencing large jiggles in SERP’s, I think there’s a GoogleDance going on as SERP’s are updated into the index results.
No PageRank change noticed yet and no new Google backlinks either for me!
Saeed Ashour on Jan 11, 2008 at 4:13 pm
Hi all
Still my PR is 8 !! and nothing changed
Abi Bakar on Jan 12, 2008 at 6:05 am
Yes it changed, my PR went up from 4 to 6
Amy on Jan 13, 2008 at 8:01 am
Two of my sites’ PR changed.
one from PR0 to PR3
the other one from N/A to PR2
Good thing the new year PR update had some positive effect on my sites :)
inside-marketing on Jan 13, 2008 at 8:30 am
Site PR went down form 5 to 4 … i hope the falling stops now :(
SEO Expert on Jan 13, 2008 at 1:34 pm
my blog went down from 2 to zero and couple of other webpages as well though i hav’not change any thing on those pages from last update, it confused me first it come very sson as compare to the last one and second y they are putting down even i hav’t change any thing
World Wide Webs on Jan 14, 2008 at 2:47 am
Sorry for ya guys.
I am happy to have all my websites growing with pagerank.
Most of them are PR3 but is ok.
I was happy to see that most of the site i created have the pr grown, but i was upset when i sau my site http://www.bay2sell.com at PR1 from 3.
I also didn’t done any modifications to this site.
I believe that PR its based on the trafic.
because i have the same site, but i didn’t managed it for almost 6 months and people stoped to join it .
lee johnson on Jan 14, 2008 at 9:14 am
Here at Customer Street we have not really noticed any change in our main directories but the blogs for each department have gone up from 2 to 3. I think it is still being rolled out so lets wait and see.
Mirco on Jan 15, 2008 at 11:11 am
I haven’t noticed anything. Still all the same.
Priceblaze on Jan 16, 2008 at 10:47 am
Hi,
Yes I have increase in BL and the PR for one of my web site.
Himanshu on Jan 17, 2008 at 3:21 am
My ranking has been dropped from 4 to 2 :(
Lewis on Jan 20, 2008 at 11:24 pm
careerdiagnostics.com is a new domain name (Aug 07) and gets flow on ranking from progressenterprise.com. careerdiagnostics.com still showing as a “3″. Several tools suggest that progressenterprise.com will go from 3 to 5 at the next update, but I have yet to see this. Presume that careerdiagnostics.com will continue to get the flow on benefit.
Planet Earth Webs on Apr 11, 2008 at 7:10 am
Any clues to the next PageRank toolbar update please
sigit triyoko on May 11, 2009 at 11:14 am
thank you News Tutorial hacking
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