Google toolbar PR update

Peter · Oct 24, 2007

Not sure if people are aware but Google recently (in fact this month) carried out a toolbar PR update. This resulted in many site dropping in PR (suspected to be because of the paid links no longer being credited).

Well Google are updating yet again. This is I think unprecedented, when was the last time Google updated the toolbar PR twice in 1 month.

Bill · Oct 24, 2007

I don't see any changes to my sites. Google needs to lay off paid links. Maybe Google should drop it's own PR since they use paid links.

:hehe:

-Bill

mrizos · Oct 24, 2007

Since google is hammering links these days is there an updated "guide" for properly SEO'ing a site???

geb9696 · Oct 24, 2007

All of my sites are showing the same PR. Kind of makes me wonder if PR even matters since my one site gets over 1k visitors from Google a month and is a PR0 site while I have two other sites that are both PR3 and together they dont even break 100 visitors from Google in a month.

Peter · Oct 24, 2007

geb9696 said:
All of my sites are showing the same PR. Kind of makes me wonder if PR even matters since my one site gets over 1k visitors from Google a month and is a PR0 site while I have two other sites that are both PR3 and together they dont even break 100 visitors from Google in a month.

It is widely speculated that PR has been superseded by something dubbed as trust rank. This of course is speculation as Google will not make the same mistake as they did with PR.

The pagerank reported by the toolbar isn't the true representation of what Google think of you more an indicator, internally the PR isn't on a scale of 1-10.

mrizos said:
Since google is hammering links these days is there an updated "guide" for properly SEO'ing a site???

It is fairly simple there is nothing wrong with trading links but ensure you trade with quality related sites. Also try and gradually increase your links. If you suddenly for example double your link count then your link count stops growing for some time this looks suspicious to Google and may be caught by the algorithm.

Of course also ensure you have quality unique content on your site, if your content is good enough people will link to you naturally.

tritrain · Oct 24, 2007

I'm just fascinated that Google is still bothering with updating PR.

Although, if they really wanted to mess with those selling and buying text links, they could randomly change the PR every day. That would really mess us up!

Peter · Oct 24, 2007

Bill said:
I don't see any changes to my sites. Google needs to lay off paid links. Maybe Google should drop it's own PR since they use paid links.

:hehe:

-Bill

As far as I am aware Google do not buy links from other sites and if you are referring to adsense/adwords then you should know that Google (and most other search engines) do not index and count such links especially as they are contained within javascript.

arejayell · Oct 24, 2007

peter@flexiwebhost said:
As far as I am aware Google do not buy links from other sites and if you are referring to adsense/adwords then you should know that Google (and most other search engines) do not index and count such links especially as they are contained within javascript.

Google would like you to think that, but then a new domain that I have , which was on adwords for 1 day, now shows those paid adwords links as links to the site

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=tattoodesigncenter.com&btnG=Google+Search

I dont get it

Peter · Oct 24, 2007

tritrain said:
I'm just fascinated that Google is still bothering with updating PR.

Although, if they really wanted to mess with those selling and buying text links, they could randomly change the PR every day. That would really mess us up!

What benefit would they have from annoying webmasters?

geb9696 · Oct 25, 2007

It would annoy webmasters but it would also may stop people from buying links from high PR sites.

Keral_Patel · Oct 25, 2007

Humm.... Yes many people are seeing changes But Don't know why I am left out this time :D

Lets see

I will post any updates here if there is a fluctuation in PR of my sites.

quyloc · Oct 31, 2007

The same for me, nothing happens with my site PRs with many paid backlinks.

shockie · Oct 31, 2007

my new sites went from 0 to 2... hurrah! lol

psalzmann · Oct 31, 2007

after 4 months my site went from PR 0 to PR 4 just two days ago

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