Pr differences

[Thez]

Hi

Dmoz just updated the directory my site is in. Of 140 sites 13 remain, rest were moved to subcategories or removed. Lucky enough, my site is among those 13, both in dmoz and google directory.

My question is that in google directory it shows my pr is 6, yet my pr currently is a 5. I'm unaware when the next update is, my guess is it should be in a few days, but I can't wait to be sure. Will my pr raise to a 6 now that the directory shows it as such?!

[Thez]

plz :)

[BillyS]

How do you know your PR is 6 in the Google directory? The granularity of the green bar is not that fine.

It's been told here many times that PR is calculated constantly, but becomes visible from time to time (quarterly?). If you've got a big boost in PR, then the SERPS already reflect the change.

The only other value of high PR (visible) is for link exchanges and quite frankly I'm not all that interested in that subject.

[Thez]

I thought the directory pr reflected the actual pr 1:1 ... Oh well

So even though pr appears as 0 the actual pr is already in effect? That could explain my new pages showing up even on 1st page of results with pr 0...

[kartiksh]

PR in directory and PR in tool bar may very. I dont able to recall but some where i heared that PR in directory is diffrent then pr in tool bar.

[SFReader]

BillyS, if you hold your cursor over the green bar, a little message comes up with the exact rank, saying something like "PageRank is Google's measure of the importance of this page (6/10)"

[Jon_King]

It's been so long since I've looked at... or anything dmoz...

There are geo-category consolidations and much less crap. Someone has put in a bunch of OT cleaning and sorting. Any idea what's up?

[walkman]

Thez,
unless you are selling links based on PR, you really shouldn't worry. If the PR is 6, Google has already taken that into account and the SERPs are already adjusted accordingly.

[Thez]

No I'm not selling links, it's just that I thought if a page had a pr, it would show immediately, and given the fact that many of my pages show 0 I thought they were at 0. :)

Seems like I'm still a 5 then even though directory says 6. Otherwise majority of my pages would propably rank better than now.

[kartiksh]

i am not sure but sharing my experience as mentioned in my previous post in this thread, one of our client's website remain on PR7 in toolbar and the value of the smae URL remain PR5 in directory for about one year. In the recent PR update the site is now PR5 at both location.