How long does it take to get Pagerank?

[Ronald Regging]

I know Google does a Pagerank update once every 6 months and I know I just missed it, which sucks, but is there a rolling pagerank that is in effect? I just got a link on a PR 6 site that's extremely relevant to my content and was wondering if this will increase my search rankings anytime soon? My site is PR 0 right now, so I'm assuming this will help alot, but am I going to have to wait 6 months before I see any benefit from this?

 

[mis_chiff]

I don't know how it works really but when I put my first
"health info" site up it received a pr3 within a month. (and still a 3)
And just this week past I took 3 sites from free hosting (godaddy) to
my own hosting and within 2 days, the 3 of them went to pr1.
So for the life of me, I cannot understand how it works.

 

[McDot]

Page ranks are updated 3 to 4times a year. The last update was on September 29, so the next update is expected for December or January. You can only get a PR if your site is indexed at Google, and is backlinked from other sites that allready have a PR.

Normally the PR you will get is one less than your highest rated backlink.

 

[rkahn144]

McDot - Does that mean that PR does not fluctuace between now and Dec/Jan?

 

[McDot]

Correct.
No changes until the next update.

 

[whitebark]

I know Google does a Pagerank update once every 6 months

They seem to be doing it every quarter now.

 

[McDot]

It's 3 to 4 times a year. The intervals are not regular in order to make it unpredictable.
There are indicators though and if you search a little, you will find services that try to predict the exact date of the next update. These recognise special crawlers that do some indexing jobs quite some time before the actual update starts.

The update takes about 7 days in total and during this time google shows very diverse results. The reason for this, is that the different servers need a while until they are synchronized. These fluctuations are known to webmasters as "google dance".

 

[Ronald Regging]

Thanks everyone for the help, I really appreciate it. Rep added!

 

[bluearrow]

well sites i had PR5 back links got PR3 and this happened in 3 months. it all matters is backlinks which already has a PR value

 

[Amnezia]

I know Google does a Pagerank update once every 6 months and I know I just missed it, which sucks, but is there a rolling pagerank that is in effect? I just got a link on a PR 6 site that's extremely relevant to my content and was wondering if this will increase my search rankings anytime soon? My site is PR 0 right now, so I'm assuming this will help alot, but am I going to have to wait 6 months before I see any benefit from this?

You should see benefit in ranking within 28 days if the link gets picked up by google.

 

[Templatechicken]

I have something to ask in this category as well:

I know that google loves linking from high pr sites.

but what if one site has like 4 links off all pr8 sites,
and another site has 1000 links off pr 1 sites.

which site then comes better out of the test??

thnx

Marien

 

[gymosphere]

I would say the site that gets 4 PR8 links is more worthy. It is not easy to get link from PR8 sites. And it is not a linear equation. Getting from PR7 to PR8 is like 1000 times the effort of getting from PR4 to PR5.

 

[Ronald Regging]

but what if one site has like 4 links off all pr8 sites,
and another site has 1000 links off pr 1 sites.

which site then comes better out of the test??

It's kind of like having kids... would you rather have 4 kids that are all really great, or 1,000 kids that kind of suck?

 

[gymosphere]

It's kind of like having kids... would you rather have 4 kids that are all really great, or 1,000 kids that kind of suck?

Great analogy!