Google Update: PageRank Dropping
Recently Google seems to be updating the pagerank for website. Its being discussed a lot on many webmaster forums. What most of them are seeing is drop in page rank of the websites.
Why the drop?
There may be 3 main reasons for it:
- Google is getting harsh on link buying
- Google is getting harsh on cross-linking
- Google has increased its standard for getting each PR (re-calibrated), so getting each level is now more difficult (more back-links)
But those are just my thoughts. I have seen many websites loosing their pageranks like:
- Statcounter from PR8 to PR6
- Engadget from PR7 to PR5
- Auto Blog from PR6 to PR4
- phpbb from PR9 to PR6
and so on…
On the forums most of the people reporting a pagerank drop but there are hardly any who has reported pagerank incrase. For my own 200+ sites, around 10+ sites has lost some pagerank but none of them gained any pagerank. For me, the reason can be either link selling or cross-linking. Need to work on that.:)
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Jim Karter on October 24th 2007 in General, Google, Link Building
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12 Responses to “Google Update: PageRank Dropping”
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GettyCash responded on 24 Oct 2007 at 9:46 am #
PR for my blog still N/A. It’s bad for that many sites got a pagerank drop.
Ron responded on 24 Oct 2007 at 10:34 am #
But have you seen any drop in rankings? Not the PR, but rankings, because I am concerned if Buying links might be also cracked down. It seem like there are only cracking down on link-to-bad-neighbourhood type sites.
jimkarter responded on 24 Oct 2007 at 11:24 am #
No. No drop in ranking because I think it is just a PR export to the toolbar. Thats it. It has actually occurred quite some time back.
Adi Moga responded on 24 Oct 2007 at 2:43 pm #
is there any public information from google ?
jimkarter responded on 24 Oct 2007 at 6:31 pm #
Na. Google is keeping quite as usual.
Amit responded on 24 Oct 2007 at 11:30 pm #
Lets stop caring less about the toolbar PR as its just for display purpose no monetory benefits from it
jimkarter responded on 25 Oct 2007 at 6:01 am #
Except for directory owners.
Greg responded on 28 Oct 2007 at 4:58 pm #
I have two relatively new sites that jumped from Page Rank N/A to PR3 and PR4. Surprising, considering I dont have a great amount of back links.
Dave (The Other One) responded on 08 Nov 2007 at 4:05 am #
I made out like a bandit on this last toolbar PR update. Sure, a few of my older sites I haven’t been updating got dropped, but all the sites I’m making effort to get the word out have all experienced huge jumps in not only PR but SERPs as well. I don’t go by PR, I go by SERPs.
Puneet responded on 19 Nov 2007 at 1:25 am #
i saw few dir’s too falling from high to low (very low) like u can say gii dir.
i too had started few dir’s and got PR 3 for those without any expense on it…
hotel responded on 20 Nov 2007 at 11:37 pm #
PR calculations based on number of all sites, known by Google (let’s say this number is some divider)
More sites = less PageRank of single site.
At the other hand - last PR-related events could means that Google attempts to get rid of PR in SERPS.
Russian SEO experts believe so
smasra.com responded on 01 Oct 2008 at 5:11 pm #
my PR was N/A now it is “0″ sorry big Zero so i will wait the new update