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Google updates Pagerank
By webmaster | May 1, 2008
The web search jumbo “Google” has updated the “PageRank”- Google’s proprietary algorithm of ranking web pages based on quality incoming links and content relevancy. Pagerank was applicable only for text links but recently there were news that Google has come up with a new technology that will assign PageRank for images also. Unlike the last update where many sites lost their PageRank, this PageRank update has brought smiles to many webmasters as their site’s PageRank has improved in the uptrend.
For those who are new to PageRank, it is a numerical weighting (0 to 10) which represents the value of a webpage based on the incoming links and relevancy. Most often new sites get the value of PR N/A or PR 0. Although PR1 to PR3 is easily achievable, PR4 and PR5 needs some work. For getting the value of PR6 one has to gain links from quality and authority websites. PR7 and above is awarded to authority sites which have huge number of backlinks and provide quality content. Google updates its PageRank once in 3 months, although its not guaranteed. Last year there was a big gap of more than 6 months. There are many free tools available in the Internet to find your website’s PageRank. For instance:Checkpagerank.net and Domainpagerank.com
As per the info found in Google’s Official Help Section (http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=49215), PageRank does matters in SERPS (Search Engine Result Pages). Google uses its sophisticated and obscure algorithm combined with PageRank in providing Search Results in google.com. There have been endless debates in regards to this. Some say that PR0 sites often rank well than sites with higher PR. But one should understand that the search results are not solely dependent on PageRank, the quality of content, text matching or relevancy also does factor in search engine results.
I also heard from few of the members in DP (forums.digitalpoint.com) that some of their new sites also got ranking (PR1 or 2) without gaining much links. The pagerank seems to have started updating from the last 2 days (April 28th and April 29th). The new ranking was visible only in few Google’s datacenters. It typically takes some time to propagate throughout all the Google’s datacenters. Today the ranking is visible in many pagerank checking tools.
Regardless of PageRank, if your site provides unique content and also to that of users-interest, your website will rank well in the minds of your visitors and grow dramatically!
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May 1st, 2008 at 1:24 pm
I’m glad that Google finally updated the PageRanks… But I’m somehow feeling embarassed since I boasted to my friend just the other day, I guess it was Monday… that I got my pagerank back after sending Google a complaint. Oh well.. that’s a long story.. but yeah thanks for the update.
May 7th, 2008 at 2:33 pm
and my blog still stuck on PR2. That sux big time man