PageRank Shifts

Update Florida: Round Two

[HyperGeek]

I've noticed several PR shifts on sites that we manage. In fact, most of them that we've added content to and gained inbounds for over the past two months have risen to PR 5's and 6's within the last week or two.

The PR 6 sites seem to still be affected by the Update-F - so this may dispell the belief that no PR 6+ sites are affected by the new algo (or whatever may have cause such drastic changes in the Google SERPs)... that is, unless positions will be adjusted during the next big update since their pageranks rose during/after Florida.

[plasma]

No changes for any of our sites :(

[skipfactor]

PR updated two and a half weeks ago. Nothing new here since then; new sites are still showing white bar.

[drewls]

umm...our site is PR7 and it was affected by this Florida fiasco, so no, there isn't any truth to the pr6+ rumor.

[Stefan]

new sites are still showing white bar

Yep, saw that too.

I was wondering if Google might restore inherited automatic PR on new pages during the recent adjustments... guess not. The new pages are showing well in the serps, so the PR0 on new stuff seems to still have no effect. I thought the old grey-bar white-bar distinction was very useful... guess it had to go as part of the rolling update process.

It looks like they still don't have enough CPU's to calculate rolling PR, just do irregular updates of it. So it goes...

ADDED: I don't understand that... they obviously have a rolling PR of some sort that's part of the rolling update algo. Why do we only see it change occasionally now? Why do they keep their current calculations hidden away until the PR update happens?

[plasma]

Why do they keep their current calculations hidden away until the PR update happens?

Security through obscurity.

[Stefan]

Yep, Plasma, you might be right right. Maybe it's possible to game the serps if you can see PR changes within days - i.e. as soon as the new pages/sites show up from deepfreshbot, (or freshdeepbot or whatever you call the non-image bot these days).

On the other hand, maybe they just don't have the hardware. It doesn't seem to make much difference anyway.

[nakulgoyal]

I find almost all my websites fully indexed and good PR already. I am happy. My clients are happy. All have lots in sales. :-)

But I am also constantly working to maintain them. I feel that is more important, then just getting happy by looking at what is happening. :-)