Exactly 3 months after the update in August, Google PageRank has been updated again today on November 08, 2011. The update has eliminated all recent doubts that Google PageRank could be killed in the near future. I imagined about the death of Google PageRank but it won’t happen, it was just an update in the URL to query PageRank. Therefore, I write this post to notify all bloggers about the PR update and the new PR of my site.
Higher Pagerank for TechWalls
The update has brought good news for TechWalls as the 8-month-old blog keeps increasing in the rank. It had PR2 after the August update and now the number has turned to PR3. I am very happy as this is the highest PageRank I’ve ever had for all my blogs, it must prove that I am on the right track in developing the tech blog.
Although the PageRank is not as important as it was a few years ago, this is still a big encouragement for me at the moment. For the last week, my blog has been affected by the Google’s freshness update and the number of pageviews has dropped to about 2,400 views each day. I was a little disappointed after losing some important keywords on Google’s SERPs, however, the increase in PR shows that Google doesn’t downgrade my site and I still have many chances to get higher ranking for those keywords.
Apart from TechWalls, I own about 9 other websites including very new ones. It’s great as most of them have PR1 and PR2 now although I didn’t spend much time on building links and improving search engine ranking. Some bloggers even claimed that their 2-week-old blogs could have PR3 without any works, the situation happened to my blog once but that blog’s PR has decreased to PR0 now, I guess it is just a bug or mistake from Google and they will fix it soon.
Benefits of High PageRank
I often complain about the accuracy of Google PR in evaluating a website. Having said that, I can’t deny the importance of the green bar as most advertisers still consider it as one of the most important metric in offering prices for ad slots. Besides, I have sold 2 websites on Flippa and realized that it is very difficult to sell PR0 websites whereas higher PR websites could be sold much easier. It seems like buyers still look at the rank to determine if this is an established website or not.
Therefore, I can sure that my revenue from this blog won’t be affected even when the traffic could be lower than last month due to the Google’s algorithm update. The PR update has really become my savior this time and thanks Google for that.
Have you seen the PageRank update on your website? Let us know what’s your new PageRanks and how it will increase your revenue.
TumuTanzi
My pr is still 3, no any changes. and my site has been accepted by dmoz, it is a good news for me.
Tuan Do
Wow, that’s awesome. Congrats, mate. I suggested my URL a long time ago but it hasn’t been listed yet. Do you need to do anything else?
TumuTanzi
I contacted the editor after I submitted my site.
You can also have a try.
Tip4PC
May I have the contact of the editor, thanks
ichael Aulia from MCravingTech.com
Congrats for the PR3! It’s definitely not easy and especially yours is only 8 month old! My PR doesn’t seem to change (still in PR4) but I’m happy compared to having it lowered heh heh
Tuan Do
Thanks Michael.
It appears to be very difficult to get to PR5. Going from PR2 to PR3 is absolutely easier than from PR4 to PR5. I’ve seen you keep the PR4 in the last 2 updates, maybe you need a few more inbound links and the number will go up next time.
Anyways, congrats for not having lower PR.
B.Patra
Congrats Tuan Do.
Yes, PR update happened today, I can see my website PR has updated from PR1 to PR2
Diolt
I noticed it is just a internal page rank and a minor update. No change for my websites
Charles Chua C K
Yes, My site has also gone up from 2 to 3
Liz Money Web
Such a good news. I’m wondering how much I can sell my website if it’s PR1. Do you have tips in selling sites in Flippa? Thanks!
Tuan Do
It depends, I’m going to sell one of my PR1 site for $500. If your site has good potential, you can even sell it for much higher price.
HIgh PR Backlinks
It would be difficult if it has no revenue.
It would be much easier to sell a site with revenue, even if it is just making a few bugs each months.
Jenn from Harmonic Mama
Mine dropped from PR3 to PR2 even though I’m getting more traffic than ever.
Tuan Do
Yes Jenn, the Google PR has nothing to do with the ranking and traffic to your site as well. You shouldn’t worry because traffic is much more important than the number.
Aadil
This page rank update is only for few sites as my few of the websites have got effect of new PR Update but some didnt..
Tuan Do
Hi Aadil,
I think this is a major update because I can see new PR on my sites and most other sites as well. You couldn’t see PR update on some of your sites possibly because they didn’t change at all.
ball valves
Our PR went up to PR5 just from a PR4 – great update, thanks for sharing the news.
True Traveller
Went from PR4 to PR5 today.
Manuel Garcia
Thanks for the news. I just look for my new pagerank since my blog is 4months old and luckily my blog now is PR4 in just 4months. Anyway, thanks for the updates
SEOOrlando
PR is indeed still important for many reasons. The number of pages of your site that Google will crawl is directly proportional to your PR.
David from seo professional
Congratulations on the PR boost. I was very pleased to see that a couple of my sites got a nice PageRank lift, and a new blog that I have out of the gate already has PR2. You are right that PR does not mean very much in substantial terms (such as SERP rankings), but Google PR and to a lesser extent Alexa Ranking are the two easy metrics that people can use to visualize the strength of your website.
Tuan Do
Thanks David,
You are right, Alexa and Google ranking must be the first metrics that all people will look at to evaluate a website. It will take a long time to change the thought.
Congrats on your success with PR, I can see your site has PR4 now.
Bella
Hi , I was impressed as you are, but in my case I was jumping up and down, because my blog went from a PR 0 to a PR 3 , and it is just 3 months old. So today I discovered that Google love blogs that talk about opensource, even better if you are promoting them and trying to help the community. I think everyone should include reviews of opensource software in their blogs, the community is huge and they love to help each other.
Tuan Do
Thanks for your tips, Bella. What a pity because my blog didn’t focus on opensource softwares, I will give it a try for sure.
Congrats for your PR increase.
Bella
Thanks!! congrats to you too, excellent blog by the way
David from seo professional
Congrats Bella. My PR2 blog is first posted on September 19, with just 6 posts so far, and aside from some social bookmarking, a couple blog carnivals and occasionally using that as my URL in blog comment, I really have not done any promotion. Feels good, doesn’t it?
Buy youtube views
I had pr 6 for my site… PR6 and now pr 3.. what happened.. damn..
Liz Money Web
I better sign up with Flippa then to have some of my sites appraised.
Emily
Sad! mine went from 3 to 2.. Very painful. I’ve always been on 3 until now
George Fuller
Holly Cow.. are you serious? PR6 to PR3? that’s a lot of PR decrease.. but it happened to my site also.. From pr 4 to pr 3.. I hope the update is still on going.. but my mind plays if I fail on my site. but to be honest I used to link build quality post, quality links, and quality content only.. I’m still wondering why it Drop to 3.. BTW congrats to those site that increases their PR.
Shiva from Blogging Tips
Hey Tuan, congrats on your Pagerank update, I to got to PR4 from PR3. Best of luck for future PR updates
Tuan Do
Thanks Shiva.
Great to see Google still love our blogs. I will try to catch netchunks in the next update.
Keep rocking!
Don
My PR went from PR0 to PR3! I was surprised this morning when i noticed it. And my site is only less than a year old! Alot of my inner pages got PR1 as well.
What does this mean for me now, I’m already ranking #2 on google for my main KW. You said this should help with traffic, can you explain how? Im really excited that my site is now a PR3 and has some trust.
Solicitor
I have noticed PR update at my all legal websites .
I wouldn’t say that it is so important – however most of visitors ( SEO oriented ones )
still categorise website importance by their PR .
Sol
I get gooood result from the update today from pr3 to pr 4 and pr 1 to pr 5 yessss
Jam
I noticed the update today. No major changes to report. I agree that PR counts less than it did a while back.
Make Money Blogging
Yes! Mine went from 0 to 1 in 3 months! I am very happy now
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David
Hey Tuan
Stumbled across your blog when searching for Google Pagerank Update’. I was just curious to see if others had experienced changes to their PR as mine had rised dramatically when I checked today… PR1 to PR4
I had done a lot of on page Seo about 6 months ago, but in the last month have focused on obtaining quality on theme links, with a real emphasis on selecting sites that have average PR but more importantly with few to none outbound links so I gain full benefit of their PR. what has been key was to go for quality rather than quality. I did submit my site to about 30 directories that I definitely knew would list, so I didn’t waste my time.
I would say I owe much of my success to SeoMoz – I signed up for about 5 months just to use their tools, now I just revisit their blog and follow them on twitter for updates.
Keep up the blogging
Nasif
My PR is now 4
kuldeep bansal
Yes…. Mine went from 0 to 1 in 3 months! I am very happy now
Html5 Conversion
Google PR is definately not dead, I think it gives more of an indication of whether a site has quality content or not than say social media, ie. tweets or likes.
ger
i personally think PR has no importance
VCAdirect.nl
Don´t push your luck immediately. There will be some tweaking in the coming couple of days with the PR. I saw that with our website we had a PR 5 and 6 for a lot af pages but after a while this were degraded to PR 4.
Mahendra
I was so much excited about PR update but its not beneficial for me as my PR is same as it was before
NuBrilliance Review
This is one of my many websites that have been affected in a very positive way by the Google PageRank Update.
I am now at a PageRank 5 wohoo!!
Technomela
I had a new blog which I had started in September after the page rank update it has moved to PR1 which is the first time as I have 5 other websites which has not movement still. Lets hope they do in few months.
prateek
August was the most painful month. My pr went from 3 to 1 directly in aug, in next 10 days it was 2 and its still 2.. my blog is 3 yrs old, so again u can imagine the number of inbound links i have.. they are pretty good. God knows how its gonna be up again..
Mushfique
Congratulations Tuan !!
My PR has increased from 0 to 3 !
jacouh
Very Interesting discovery of new Google update.
My site is still PR3 since years. One of sites had PR5 for somes days but dropped down to PR3 now.
When would be the next update ? as my predictive PR is 4.89 according to seomastering.
GADEL from Catholic Fiction
My PR dropped from 4 to 3.
too bad for me for now.
rIyAnGsHu from PPC Tricks
Hi Tuan , Congrats for getting PR 3 . This update brought PR 2 for my blog , which is really a good sign for a 5 months old blog !
Samuel King
Hi Tuan, I have definitely benefited from the recent updates from google (PR and the new google freshness). I have seen my blog gone from PR2 to PR4, many internal pages got PR3 (including some posts that were published less than two weeks ago). But my biggest joy has been the massive increase in traffic from SE. Google freshness has given me a major search engine traffic with many of my posts been indexed less than 2 hours after publishing and ranking as well.
My hard work in quality content has started to pay off.
Very happy chap here ^_^
Tuan Do
Congrats for your success, Samuel.
PR4 is my blog’s goal in the next Google PR update. I am posting new content everyday and hopefully the efforts could gain more traffic to my blog.
Btw, I often see my posts indexed just a few minutes after published. Is it a good sign?
Samuel King
It’s pleasure mate.
From my personal point of view, I’m yet to experience any negatives from early indexing from google, in fact I see it as a sign of vote from google. I have opened up guest posting on the site and my next step is to start guest posting on other blogs too. Hopefully this will help bring in that more needed authority in the blogoshere.
Thanks
Diego - Blogspc
I noticed a positive impact of this update on my blog as my blog moved from Page rank 2 to page rank 3.
alman from STech Blog
Truly said, though PR is not important, it is encouragement for many of us…. Congrats on getting PR 3
Randi Judge
Since I started my blog, not only to have a place to express myself, but to also get involved in paid blogging opportunities, I am hoping that my jump from 0 to 1 will help with that. Seeing this post made me realize that it isn’t as sporadic as I originally thought. (I guess I should read more about SEO) I assumed it just jumped whenever it felt like it and I’ve been working my butt off to get it up. Now that I know I have approximately 3 more months to get myself to a 2, I can rest a little easier and possibly start a few more blogs to help me generate revenue.
umar from Technology updates
Hi,
I’ve just checked my site’s PR and I am amazed to see that my site is now PR3. It is only 4 months old and obviously it was pr0 before that.
Though now I’ve got a higher PR, I am still not sure how to make use of it.. any suggestions??
S7even Studio
it’s nice to know that you got PR3. Keep your good job bro….But I think, better SERP is the most important, so it still need a lots of work to do
Samuel King
Fancy seeing you here friend lol, yea SERP is mostly important. A nice PR goes along the way but there are more underground work that needs doing as well. And we also have to remember, this is not the internal pagerank that google uses.
Black Printer Ink
Pretty much everyone has noticed an increase, I think they’ve just made it easier.
For example a new blog of mine http://tubehack.co.uk is only 2 months old with around 12 articles and already has PR3.
Katherine
My site went to PR 4 in less than a year and then down to PR 3 and has stayed there. Kind of wish it could just go back to 4. :/
LaTisha from YoungAdultFinances
My site stayed at PR 2 but at least it didn’t go down.
Miss Wallstreet
My site was PR 1 at the last update but now it is PR 2! I’m excited but I am working on getting it to three at the next update.
sivabau
my website update google page rank=2 .iamworking s.e.o next update may be pr 3 or4
Nigel
I wouldn’t trust the November PR update, seems some very strange things are going on with Google (esp since the Panda updates). I created a brand new site in mid October and low and behold it got a PR3 after the update. It was barely 3 weeks old. I had hardly even started to build any backlinks to it.
Some of my older sites didn’t change at all despite having loads of high quality high PR backlinks to them.
Google PageRank (and to an extent search results) seems to be getting less about the science of PageRank ‘flow’ and building backlinks to becoming more like a lottery.
It’s certainly made my life as an internet marketer much more complicated as nothing makes logical sense any more.
alan
hey dude
my blog also acheived from pr0 to pr3!!!
Waqaace
Does anyone has the knowledge as when the next G PR update will do done….??.
Am at PR 2 . I came from PR3 to PR2, someone told me , when ur PR comes down, it take more time to raise it to the higher level?….
Please correct me , if my know how is not correct!!
Q3 Technologies
This was a great update. All my sites increased PR.
Grupo profesionalActivo
Thanks Google for appreciating the effort and dedication. Congratulations ….
neo
my site stay with PR2
Home Based Business
Hey Tuan,I never noticed that PR update had occurred already. This is because there is no changes with my blogs. My business blog remains PR2 and its 1.1 year old. I am continuously marketing my blog throughout the Internet and I can even break the PR2 barrier. May I ask how you did it?Thanks and nice blog!
Tuan Do
Increasing PR is easier than you thought. The problem is just if you have enough time or money.
I will share some of my views to increase PR in a post next week. Stay tuned.
Home Based Business
Hey Tuan,Definitely looking forward into it. I am quite knowledgeable about some of the best SEO tricks like link wheel. Did you ever apply this method? Mentioning money, I availed the services of submitedge.com for directory submission, article submission, social bookmarking and Dmoz….fortunately, still no increase in pagerank. I am now concentrating on guest posting which I believed increases my traffic.Thanks Noah
Chitra from SocialVani
That’s great Tuan. I hope my blog will show some results too in the next month or two. PR is not that necessary, as you said, but advertisers still want to see PR of each website….
Tuan Do
I guess the next Google PR update will happen very soon, Chitra. I’m expecting for an update this January and I hope TechWalls will reach PR4 then.
Chitra from SocialVani
Anerok
How long it in general takes to achieve PR1,PR2 and PR10? Any ideas.
Outdoor Wedding Ideas
There is a whole industry behind the PageRank thing, backlinkage and everything, and they will be pretty pissed if G decides to kill it..
cake beater
Just don’t be happy about current update. Because this is mega update but I think Google will make newest update soon. Why? They perhaps passed a lot of site with low quality for high PR. Example, brand new sites got PR3+, with no traffic or inbound links. Then the owner sold links on fiverr, this happened today. Just beware because sometime this euphoria won’t last longer.
Some of good blogs decreased PR. This is so sad, after all hard work to create fresh articles and link building. Actually I have no idea why this update full with surprises. But newbies with new blog then suddenly got PR4, they always think this is blessing from God. Nope, this is just temporary..
My blogs still got PR2, but few of them with 5 months old got PR1, and 1 decrease from PR3 to PR2. Then I realize several blogs delete my links (I use link exchange manual with friends) so I delete all unused links. I saw their blog got PR3+ because I still put their link on my blogs.
But my personal opinion, I put my concentration to traffic, because those PR number will blind your eyes from creativity and will open your eyes just for money. GBU Tuan Do! Love your blog.
Data Entry India
Congratulation for PR3…………..
Karan Lugani from Unfollow Twitter Tool
Great.Congratz on PR3. That is a great achievement. I am waiting for the next PR update.
sunil
Bro i have 26 backlinks for my blog.But its page rank is zero in google…what can i do ???
Jon
Come on, I’ve seen websites with PR0 making a lot of money, and PR8 (personal pages mainly) making no money!
I think PR was an important factor 4 years ago, it is not so much now
ajmal
Thank you for such a great information, everyone are waiting for the next pagerank upate. I think it will be in this january
Tuan Do
Yeah, I am also expecting the upcoming Google PR update but probably it will happen later than we thought.
Adult Directory
It looks like Google has made a PR update today (6 feb 2012) and i just got an unexpected PR1 for my new directory.
Bloomtools
After November 2011 its the time for february 2012 update of google. Its just uncertain when the update will come.
Instant online cash advance
my website home page increase 1 page rank but inner page rank no improvement. most of the keywords appear in second and third page i want to see on first page so what are the main reason for this issues.