Google PageRank Update is in Progress

Saturday, July 26th, 2008 at 9:58 am

Image via WikipediaI woke up this morning, put on the coffee and booted up the ole PC and to my surprise Google is in the middle of updating the PageRank on my blogs again. I was wondering when they were going to get around to it again. I guess I should mark the dates down so I can have a better idea of just how long it’s been since the last update.

I don’t get as excited as I used to when the updates happened. I guess it’s because my sites don’t flucuate quite as much as they used to, but it’s still nice to see when I have new sites waiting for the PR update.

There was a time, not too long ago when I put a lot of focus on pagerank and would get royally ticked off at Google, and a little depressed, if they put my PR down. Fortunately my stress level went down considerably when a good friend, client and fellow marketer pointed out the fact that Google PageRank isn’t quite as important as I was thinking it was.

We talk quite a bit and he pointed out the fact that one of my sites has a PR1 and yet it makes more money for me than most of my other sites that have PR3. So as he says, ‘who cares’, as long as you’re making money online.

I still get excited when I see my PR rise though and today was no acception. I was very pleased to see a few of my domains increasing in PageRank, even though a few others dropped

I did browse to a few of the sites I follow in various niches and see that Google is really coming down hard these days and I am sure there is going to be a few marketers crying in their coffee over the next few days.

I have a feeling we are going to see a flood of Google PageRank update posts from not so happy marketers.

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3 Comments

Tom At The Home Business Archive says:

July 31, 2008 at 5:00 pm

I noticed that Google don´t think my site is any important anymore, they ranked my site as PR 0. However, it doesn´t have any effect on my traffic because I use a lot of different techniques to get traffic to my blog,like social marketing for instance.
webmann says:

July 31, 2008 at 5:14 pm

Well that sucks Tom. I would say that something very strange is going on Google.

I can’t believe you were dropped to a zero, you have such good content on your site.

I have noticed some sites that have had high PR for years are feeling the pinch from Google dropping PR all over the place.

Another thing I notice Google doing is decreasing the amount of backlinks. I went from 126 backlinks all the way down to 20. As that was happening I was sure my PR would drop to zero as well.
Search Engine Optimisation UK says:

September 3, 2008 at 4:29 pm

Is pagerank as important as it used to be? Not sure… many other seo/sem factors can be a more stable place to put your eggs rather than putting them all in the pagerank basket…