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Made In Sheffield

3:36 pm on Sep 24, 2003 (gmt 0)

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PR updated today, just got to 8 which is nice :)

martinibuster

1:50 am on Sep 25, 2003 (gmt 0)

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People in some locations see the update, and others don't.

I'm noticing that a lot of folks who were at pubcon, including Brett, didn't notice the PR update on Sunday, and are late arrivals to the party. ;)

But I also notice that jimbeetle noticed the uptick in traffic on Sunday, which I did as well. However, I didn't see the PR start bouncing until later in the evening. My PR has stopped bouncing, it's consistent here in Northern California.

How about your PR elsewhere? Do you still see bouncing or is it stable?

caine

1:50 am on Sep 25, 2003 (gmt 0)

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> No significant changes on the usual ones that I check to see if anything might be up.

try www1 and www2 - term 'microsoft'

rfgdxm1, you may notice a slight distinction in the numbers - around the 20 million mark, but hey thats not significant to you i suppose.

Dave_Hawley

2:02 am on Sep 25, 2003 (gmt 0)



I give up too. How does one check PR across different data centers? I have found the SEO Chat site but that's no help.

Dave

caine

2:06 am on Sep 25, 2003 (gmt 0)

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I am seeing some change in PR. But its the shift in SERPs that i am watching, they are big which means G is upto something - rolling out a new twist - will have to watch.

Dave,

check your top term on www1 / www2 and see what differences there are in the number of listings coming up. (top right).

martinibuster

2:16 am on Sep 25, 2003 (gmt 0)

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How does one check PR against the different datacenters. It's buried within the one or more of those horrendously long Google update threads.

I've never checked my PR against different datacenters. I don't check my serps against the different datacenters. I don't check my serps against www1, 2 or 3.

I'm too lazy and prefer to have cocktails at a bar until things settle down (helps to have bars within walking distance).

I bet rxthxll38 knows how.

wmburke

2:22 am on Sep 25, 2003 (gmt 0)

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Hi all..

As a "newbie" let me ask a newbie question?

I see references to "PR 8" etc. etc.

How can i get a numerical PR value on my site?
Isn't it some kind of search you run?

TIA, all

rfgdxm1

2:22 am on Sep 25, 2003 (gmt 0)

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No caine, I don't consider that significant. Take a look at the SERP for "microsoft" set at 100 per page. The number of results the page says varies by a million. However, the actual SERP is almost the same. When a lot of listed sites move dramatically is when I consider it significant.

jdMorgan

2:24 am on Sep 25, 2003 (gmt 0)

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pchristensen & Dave_Hawley,

Setting up to check toolbar PR during updates: [webmasterworld.com...] - msg11

Jim

kiril

2:40 am on Sep 25, 2003 (gmt 0)

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I've seen a couple mentions in this thread about traffic increasing after the PR update. Why would this happen if most Google users don't even know what PR is? Does it imply a simultaneous change in the SERPS? Are some sites getting most of their traffic from other SEOs who are in the know about PR? Help me out here. Thanks.

[edited by: kiril at 3:49 am (utc) on Sep. 25, 2003]

martinibuster

2:52 am on Sep 25, 2003 (gmt 0)

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Does it imply a simultaneous change in the SERPS?

Yes and no. The way I see it, (and this is my observation) Google is dampening some PR benefits in favor of other factors. However, if you have the "other factor ducks" in a row, then the PR upgrade will help.

steveb

2:53 am on Sep 25, 2003 (gmt 0)

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"Before posting something like that you should check to make sure it has updated on all datacenters...which is hasn't."

Um, no.

PR was updated days ago. Thread title is incorrect. When it spreads to all the datacenters and pops in and out of the default on the toolbar is frankly pointless to even talk about among professionals and interested amateurs.

The updated PR info has been available for days, and those who think there is anything to learn from the updated info should have learned it by now and moved on.

steveb

2:56 am on Sep 25, 2003 (gmt 0)

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And more to the point, significant change in the serps in the past few hours (not huge, but significant) and the effects of Sunday's PR update can be seen in these results.

johnnydequino

3:05 am on Sep 25, 2003 (gmt 0)

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Easy tool to check datacenters, I find anyway:

<snip>(sticky mail for tool)

type this in: link:http://www.yourdomain.com

You can then see where the backlinks are updating.

To check your PR on the datacenters, you have to update your hosts files:

c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts

Comment out your local hosts, add this for the -ex data center:

216.239.33.100 toolbarqueries.google.com

Note: If you are unsure about what a host file is, don't try this at home.

jd

[edited by: johnnydequino at 3:51 am (utc) on Sep. 25, 2003]

johnnydequino

3:07 am on Sep 25, 2003 (gmt 0)

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PR is now almost across all datacenters and google.com.

Good luck all - jd

einaryun

3:21 am on Sep 25, 2003 (gmt 0)

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I found PR update few days ago.my website PR4 got to RP5,But back links less than before.why?

pmac

3:41 am on Sep 25, 2003 (gmt 0)

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Hi johnnydequino,

you might want to do a quick edit of that post.

From the charter [webmasterworld.com]:

No Tools sites or urls please The explosion of Google related free and commercial site tools has opened a flood gate of url dropping to "tools" sites. Therefore, we request you don't post links to "Google tools" (there are dozens if not hundreds of them now as a result of the Google API).

Dave_Hawley

3:47 am on Sep 25, 2003 (gmt 0)



PR was updated days ago. Thread title is incorrect. When it spreads to all the datacenters and pops in and out of the default on the toolbar is frankly pointless to even talk about among professionals and interested amateurs.

The updated PR info has been available for days, and those who think there is anything to learn from the updated info should have learned it by now and moved on.

Why? Because you say so? Were you born arogant, or have have worked up to it?

Dave

Kratzy

5:19 am on Sep 25, 2003 (gmt 0)

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Hmm. this is nice, the other day, my PR on my main site went from PR6 to PR7, then it went back again. Now, its just changed from PR6 to PR7 again, and it seems to be sticking, I like this :)

martinibuster

5:28 am on Sep 25, 2003 (gmt 0)

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Why? Because you say so?

The volcano has erupted, the lava is flowing down the hill, your village that is in the lava's path is as good as gone.

I think that what steveb is trying to say is that if you you need to feel the heat on your back before you run then you should really start to question the extent of what you know.

Ok, it's not too diplomatic, but it's the truth.

tigger

5:39 am on Sep 25, 2003 (gmt 0)

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steveb

it's an easy mistake to make so lets calm down a bit, we don't really want to turn this into a slagging match

Dave_Hawley

6:32 am on Sep 25, 2003 (gmt 0)



It simply annoys me when posters here make statements that implies, 'I know what I know and you should too'. We all here have varying levels of knowledge and varying knowledge of those levels. It is simply ignorant to jump in and tell someone they have no need to ask certain questions etc.

The volcano subsides :o)

Dave

Dayo_UK

7:16 am on Sep 25, 2003 (gmt 0)



OK, I am seeing consistent new PR now.

So, if PR has changed on all/most datacentres what is going on with www-ex (data has been on here for a number of days - and possibly longer as the dance tool was not showing the same results as going direct to www-ex) - the results on their have not moved accross to any datacentres (well on and off on www-sj).

Reminds me a bit of Dominic when www-sj was showing different results for about a month.

steveb

8:56 am on Sep 25, 2003 (gmt 0)

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Unfortunately some people will never be calm as we see. They would rather slag than learn. The point should be that the updated PR was information that became available on this board a few days ago, and some folks have put that information to good (if limited) use. If some folks want to not pay attention to the messages, that's fine, but there is a lot of cool information to be found here.

Dave_Hawley

9:03 am on Sep 25, 2003 (gmt 0)



If some folks want to not pay attention to the messages, that's fine, but there is a lot of cool information to be found here.

Surely you are not really that arrogant? Are you a DMOZ editor by chance :o)

Dave

killroy

9:51 am on Sep 25, 2003 (gmt 0)

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All I' interested is that my traffic jumped by 80% on monday, and my income did so too. Been steady high since. Just sweet :)

SN

newsphinx

10:01 am on Sep 25, 2003 (gmt 0)

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Yes. More links to my site are brought in as GoogleGuy said! PR has risen to 7! :) But seems still up and down. No ranking position change.

Marcia

10:26 am on Sep 25, 2003 (gmt 0)

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That in and out up and down can be a little disconcerting, but there's a lot to see in the differences.

drsam2000

11:03 am on Sep 25, 2003 (gmt 0)

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excuse my stupidity but, how do you calculate PR into a number? Are just matching that silly bar rank meter with the letters above it?

Dayo_UK

11:06 am on Sep 25, 2003 (gmt 0)



drsam2000

Download the Google Toolbar - visit the web page - hover your mouse over the page rank bar - read the page rank :)

Welcome to WW.

eztrip

11:43 am on Sep 25, 2003 (gmt 0)

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I posted this the other day in a similar thread but didn't get a response. Did Google change the criteria for a backlink to include relevance? I had and lost 3 PR5 links (with very little outgoing links besides mine - one was a programming related personal home page that's linked from a SourceForge project page). All 3 happen to be not relevant topics which is why I'm wondering. Anyone else notiice this?

Mike

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