Google PR Update - PR Drops to 3

Paul
#1. September 29th, 2008, at 9:04 PM.

The pr on our main page stayed the same, but has went up a little on some of our interior pages.

Roger Hamilton
#2. September 30th, 2008, at 2:03 AM.

PR has been dropping for many sites, however internal pages seem to be having a PR increase and better traffic via long tailed keywords. Could Google be focusing more on internal link building rather than link built towards homepage?

Tertius
#3. September 30th, 2008, at 8:23 AM.

I’ve had the PR on my main page appear, hopefully it’ll get raised soon enough. And still waiting for blog PR.

I also agree, I don’t see the effect of PR on SERPs at all. In some cases just coincidence IMO.

JBO
#4. September 30th, 2008, at 1:29 PM.

All of my existing sites dropped by one PR this time round - All of them have gained SERP rankings so i am not too worried.

I guess it is only an issue if you are trying to sell adverts on a PR based level which I do not!

Still, it makes you wonder if perhaps we are doing something wrong or that G doesn’t like?

Wayne
#5. September 30th, 2008, at 5:28 PM.

Hey! My PR went up one! Well, it’s only 2 now, but I’ll take it!

I really don’t watch or pay attention to PR on my personal blog, but I will be for sure since I created a Blogger blog and instantly my PR was 3!!!

Norhafidz
#6. September 30th, 2008, at 6:55 PM.

I didn’t even notice the dance, they are updating fast these days. They did nothing to my blog, it remain the same.

windyridge
#7. September 30th, 2008, at 7:02 PM.

It definitely affects the number and amount of $$$ that my text links get in my sidebar. Has no effect on traffic.

SoLinkable
#8. October 1st, 2008, at 1:44 AM.

I actually went up in PR to a PR3 (from no PR), although really, what difference does pagerank really make…

kouji
#9. October 1st, 2008, at 7:18 AM.

my blog finally got itself some pr. so for that i’m thankful. i also do wonder though how important pr is nowadays.

Joe
#10. October 1st, 2008, at 8:46 AM.

You’re right about these days PR meaning less, so don’t let the fall to 3 bug you. I had a few sites drop as well, but one of them is still beating sites with higher PR for a highly competitive set of keywords, so it doesn’t bother me one bit.

POTPOLITICS@DO FOLLOW
#11. October 1st, 2008, at 6:17 PM.

I don’t wan to say Cause your my homie and birthday Brother
but I really just came by to say hello and let you see where I’m at on stumble now.
I will mention that http://bloganese.com was made Aug 8th and is a PR3
right out the gate;)
I’m getting ready to blast my Alexa….
Let me know whats up I got a little add your social networking ID’s
post going on.
Peace Stumbled twit all that

bridal jewelry
#12. October 1st, 2008, at 8:07 PM.

Now-a-days there is a lot of competition… and getting PR rank as 1 or 2 is really great…i feel personally.

http://www.xaxe.com//bridal-jewelry-c-58.html

Michael Instant Cash
#13. October 1st, 2008, at 8:38 PM.

Yeah, I don’t really put stock in PR anymore. How could you if it’s only updated twice a year (at most lately). It might have some relevance IMMEDIATELY after an update. Other than that I don’t really put much stock into it.

Cheap DVDs
#14. October 2nd, 2008, at 10:29 AM.

My PR’s not changed in ages, though I tend not to look at it too much nowadays as it’s not really that important anymore.

It is nice to have a higher PR, but there are more important factors in attaining a higher ranking on Google.

http://www.best-dvd-price.co.uk

pays to live green
#15. October 2nd, 2008, at 12:24 PM.

My page rank went up from 0 to 3, but it hasn’t change my traffic that dramatically. My traffic is steadily going up as it should. Building links and continuing with good quality content is the key to getting more traffic.

Johnnie Debt
#16. October 2nd, 2008, at 2:00 PM.

Never used PR on my pages. And still thinking, should I do it or not…?

Nicole Price
#17. October 2nd, 2008, at 2:31 PM.

I have not been favored yet with a PR. Does not seem to have affected my readership.

votetheday.com
#18. October 2nd, 2008, at 6:52 PM.

Yeah, we will be partying this weekend - after working on our latest invention, the vote-blog, for about two months, we have PR4 after this reevaluation! Woo-hoo!
About lowered PR - looks like especially many personal blogs experienced it, some of ours too. Could it be another part of Google’s new blog-hate? They also banned AdSense from blogger.com (which is their owns) blogs, like they were doing all the time with Wordpress users…

votetheday.com
#19. October 2nd, 2008, at 6:55 PM.

By the way, PR really ha impact on traffic fro search engines, because SERPs are set not only by relevance to the searched word or phrase, but by PR as well - the higher you have, the better position you get.

Simon from Otooo
#20. October 3rd, 2008, at 5:48 AM.

I noticed and I so kind of care
Guess what - we are the same pagerank now

QuickPWN
#21. October 3rd, 2008, at 9:08 AM.

It wasn’t bad. I went from a pagerank of 0 to a pagerank of 5, and my website was less than a month old! Try to beat that.

website hosting
#22. October 3rd, 2008, at 1:47 PM.

my pr went up to 4, i’ll like it!

niknikboul
#23. October 4th, 2008, at 10:52 PM.

to QuickPWN: i went from 0 to 3 - and i`m happy

Web Development
#24. October 6th, 2008, at 11:29 AM.

Hi PH,
Yeah i have seen still 3 is also good PR, hope next time it would recover strongly, best wishes.

Affiliate Program Chaser
#25. October 7th, 2008, at 10:05 AM.

Good or bad, it doesn’t matter. Just keep up the good work and I’m sure that eventually you’ll get back to PR4 or even higher.

Best Wishes,
apchaser

Eva White
#27. October 9th, 2008, at 8:43 AM.

Some times I feel we give way too much importance to a PR.

chuck norris
#28. October 12th, 2008, at 7:58 PM.

I got some PR on few sites, and lost it on one or two. This update was kind to me.

Luke
#29. October 14th, 2008, at 2:51 PM.

Mine dropped recently from 4 to 2 on my main computer related blog. I think though that was because I started submitting to a bunch of directories and I think I diluted the link juice that was giving me pr4… oh well. I should experimented with directory submission on a different site, hehe.

Software Outsourcing Company
#30. October 15th, 2008, at 3:02 PM.

Google is still the undisputed king of traffic and, regardless of what’s on the horizon, Google is the major deliverer of the web’s traffic. That’s why losing your high Google PR ranking, sometimes overnight, can be so devastating for the struggling webmaster or marketer.

ASlacker
#31. October 16th, 2008, at 8:30 AM.

I had some sites that slapped with good pr.. though i am not a fanatic of page rank, i think it is considered as a trophy for a website… what matters for me is traffic. but hey, pr 3 aint that bad

cheers,
j

UpTake Suz
#32. October 20th, 2008, at 5:35 PM.

I too have seen the PR for deep pages rising with little or negative changes to the PR for the main site… Seems that the strength or weakness of one particular page on a site isn’t having as much impact as it used to.

Carpetbagging
#33. November 25th, 2008, at 4:52 PM.

My site has only been going 4 months and on the last update was given a PR2 so the next update will be interesting for me as an increase wouls show i am doing at least something right.

John @ Curious Cat Investing Blog
#34. January 1st, 2009, at 3:10 AM.

I had most of my sites stay the same or go up this time - yay But yeah it doesn’t really mean much, it is just fun. I wrote about some of my pagerank results.