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I've checked other places and they say the old PageRank but maybe we're on the verge of another PageRank change?
Anyone notice this?
If this is a glitch or a temporary thing until the update is over then how long would it be before it is fixed?
Wht has changed this time which has brought down not just normal but high profile sites too?
Not exactly.
Some sites that I monitor in fact lost 1 point PR in the last updates or gained 1 point; other just mainained the same PR...
I think that at this time PR bar is not stable...
Here in italy, checking www.google.it it shows PR 0 in some datacenters..
I look after a few sites and have noticed the sites which have dropped to pr0 are only the ones which made a significant pr gains on the last update.
This is possible.
Mine went 5 to 6 last time...
Another thing: listed backlinks are up (1/4) this time maybe another consideration.
Does everybody think it is a temporary glitch during a PR update? or should I jump out a window?
Are they cracking down on directories?
EDIT ***SORRY! All directory pages have been zero'd.
Perhaps to stop people selling this kind of thing?
Although i am still seeing two different results (at least) using seo tools.
[edited by: sandpetra at 2:20 pm (utc) on Jan. 11, 2007]
Also, another site of mine was PR5 and has a subpage of PR6. When I checked, I found out that things are the same. But then again checking backlinks for this site I saw very strong backlinks that has to raise this site PR to atleast PR7.
Finally, a third site has its PR unchanged but got its inner pages PR, which wasn't the case before the update. Amazingly, some of the inner pages still has PR0 although very deep pages has PR4-5.
I think the backlinks update is stable somehow now in google datacenters. But it's obviously that the snapshot of the toolbar has a glitch.
<Note: the edited url pointed to the site of a new Google employee's famous father>
[edited by: tedster at 6:35 pm (utc) on Jan. 12, 2007]
This is very nearly the same thing that happened last year with bigdaddy. (cringing at the thought)
I just dont understand how our site (now 10 years old) solid natural backlinks, good traffic and unique content keeps getting the axe by google. We are completely whitehat we dont try to do SEO, but we do make it easy for our customers to find what they are looking for.
I'd sworn to myself I wouldn't look at PR after the bs that went on last year, but it so severly impacted business last year I nearly lost my job.
God how I wish google had a service (paid or not) where you could have someone manually take a look and evaluate your site rather than relying on programming of their algo to decide who stays and who goes.
We did, however, recently change our entire site using a CMS and applied the appropriate 301 re-directs to pick up the transferred PR. When I first noticed the white bar, I immediately came here because I figured if anyone else was talking about it, then it might not be too big of a problem.
Google has a big hand, but I bet it would be hard for them to spank all of us at the exact same time :)
I will watch with cautious optimism as this plays out.
I found that TBPR was of little or no help in guiding SEO decisions, long ago. My position on the SERPs and the volume of traffic to my pages bears no relationship to the value of my TBPR.
When I see so many posts to a thread like this one, I do begin to wonder...What is it that attracts so much attention to TBPR? Maybe I am missing something here?
[edited by: Endurer at 5:53 pm (utc) on Jan. 11, 2007]
When I see so many posts to a thread like this one, I do begin to wonder...What is it that attracts so much attention to TBPR? Maybe I am missing something here?
My TBPR is 0 but my rankings haven't changed so it must be a glitch.
TBPR updates, to my memory, have never had an effect on rankings. PR is updated all the time and this is just an indication of what PR was for a single moment back who knows when. Sort of interesting but of little use to people trying to figure anything out about current rankings.
Real PR is updated constantly, as are the SERPS.
I thought so and yet when I ping toolbarquerries it still shows the old IP.
This should allow you to use the new IP in your hosts file:
ipconfig /flushdns
When I see so many posts to a thread like this one, I do begin to wonder...What is it that attracts so much attention to TBPR? Maybe I am missing something here?
No you are missing nothing, because you indeed came and posted as well :)
I think the pr0 thing is a glitch for what it is worth and is only showing on certain DC's. Start worrying when your referrals and traffic from Google stop, otherwise its business as usual.
