Google Pagerank and backlinks updated
July 14, 2006 – 6:03 amThis particular one has been a long time coming. Google has done a backlink and PR update, but it doesn’t appear all websites or pages are affected. Websites that already have PR now have PR on internal pages, and new domains have their first PR, but pages that already had PR didn’t appear to change. A number of people who reported inflated PR values in February indicate their PR was reduced.
What does it all mean? As with any dealing with Google, it’s open to intrepretation. One thing a Pagerank update doesn’ mean: more money. You can’t spend this green at the bank, so what good is it anyway?
I’m not sure if this update will continue, or if it’s done. I’m still expecting to see something that fixes the troubles of 6/27/2006.
Is anyone out there still excited about this PR update?
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2 Responses to “Google Pagerank and backlinks updated”
I got first pr for my new web developers resource site, and got 4 on the homepage, 3 for various other pages.
I’m not sure the update is complete - I am still seeing lots of gbot activity on the site.
IMO, PR is still pretty important and its a good method for determining how many backlinks you, and the quality of them.
I have a feeling that Google has implemented a new ranking feature which dictates how many pages you can have indexed on your sites, and I think its directly tied with how much maintenance you make to your site, e.g. how many new pages you add, how many pages you update etc. The more you maintain the site, the more pages get indexed.
This might just be nonsense, but it seems that everytime i update my g sitemap and re-submit it, 2 days later I have more pages indexed. If I stop, they start dropping pages.
By n2k on Jul 14, 2006
Congrats on the PR 4. I’m sure that updating has something to do with it.
And blogs get higher PRs than normal sites. Web’s Best Directory Blog has a PR 6 and the root home page is a 5. Google thinks blogs are something else.
By Darren McLaughlin on Jul 14, 2006