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Most likely depends on who you are. I'm not. And I have not read anything in this thread indicating that the other posters are. But I reserve the right to occasionally check the PR of some pages. PR is a usefull tool if you interpret it cautiously.
<and also some who don't but that is another story>
That certainly justifies people being concerned with when PR will update, particularly if it's new site just starting out. Some people *still* go about getting their links the old-fashioned way. For those folks it matters - the ones who are not manufacturing their own. ;)
anallawalla wrote,
I can't be bothered looking up data centre IPs but the site I saw as PR4 from Australia was PR0 to a US viewer, then the next day it changed to PR3, then PR4. It is now PR4 from a third country. A few days ago it was PR<1.
I am also facing the same problem, my site is sometimes PR5 and sometimes PR2, my site cant be PR2 at any cost, we have some very good incoming links and we have added few more. So whats happening, is it another hard update?
Whats happening , please tell me, I am worried , SERP is still unaffected.
Aji
The higher level pages have remained the same.
What is funny though is that I just recently did some direct linking from high-PR-pages within the same site to those pages in question in order to birng them from PR3 up to PR5. It seems to have had the contrary effect...
Nice :(
The Keyword over here was - SO MUCH
I know SEOs would always be behind that Green Stuff as long as its there on Toolbar and there is even 1% chance that google is using it here and there.
but i mean SO MUCH :-)
Also seeing a bunch of greybars that return to normal after clicking links to the page a few times.
No PR changes though.
IMHO the most important aspect of a PR update is that a lot of new (and some old) pages will get a PR after having had none. Making the step from no PR to actually having a PR of any value is - again IMO - symptomatic of a general change in the status of a page.
I have about 1000 pages and I estimate that more than half of them right now do not have a PR because they are new or because they have been moved to a new address. Many of them will get a PR now which makes this particular PR update fairly interesting for me.
So much? No. Do you remember - or have ever seen - the SciFi movie Soylent Green? Then you'd know that that green stuff is our life blood ;-)
No, seriously, a little bit of green lightens up your day, but aside of that it is only interesting to know that Google visits pages with higher PR more often, so changes you make get into the index faster. And links from such higher PR pages to other pages get detected faster and therefore result in the new linked to pages being indexed faster as well.
That's all. For me at least.
Mozart
[edited for spelling mistake]
Lets keep thread on topic.
1. In IE, if you have the google bar running, search for your site.
2. Click on your link.
3. Check your temp internet folder for something similar to the following (where mysite is generic for your site in question).h**p://66.102.9.104/search?client=navclient-auto&googleip=O;66.102.9.104;406&ch=62087353465&freshness_check=49cZQZd8f-KQpG7IeZGWK&dq=mysite&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&start=0&querytime=KE&features=Rank&q=info:http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Emysite%2Ecom%2F
Fclark thank you for the hint!
It obviously seems to show different results for one of my urls in 66.102.9.104 & [64.233.161.99...]
WebFisher:
you're welcome. Now, if I could just figure out how to make those grey boxes appear in my posts...
I have not seen an increase in PR as such on any of our websites. However, these was a drop from 2nd to 5th position for a couple of websites.
What does this incur?
Prash_seo
> What does this incur?
Difficult to say. Positions in SERPs keep changing all the time for all kinds of reasons.
Your website can have 3 links in from pr5 sites but how many links are on the page is what counts.
If a pr5 page has, lets say 100 links, this will spread very little pr to your site.
How long as your website been around?
Bek
Marcia: shady, about when do you think it changed, how long ago?
Sorry not to reply sooner! The link change was requested on 9th April and I think it was updated about 1 week afterwards. I have been waiting until now for this PR to transfer.
However, I do have other PR0 sites which I would have expected to have received PR in this update and nothing has changed, so it seems like a rather odd update (if indeed it is completed).
Regards
Shady
ARE WE STILL SO MUCH BOTHERED ABOUT PR?
I have read senior WW members posting here that PR is not much into play now to impact SERP.
Not bothered as such, but a sudden appearance of PR for the first time is an indicator that the site has advanced within the Google indexing system. It's a reassurance that one is moving in the right direction.
Just waiting for the update to happen, why is so much tension this time on a PR update, I can smell google cooking some bad dish.
*taps fingers on desk in anticipation*
It's a reassurance that one is moving in the right direction
It appears that the PR update that I mentioned earlier has now reverted back! The PR now shows on my page which currently has no inward links!
How bizarre!
Regards
Shady
