Were You PageRankled?

Posted by Jozzua on Oct 25, 2007 in Uncategorized • 11 comments

So the phenomenon I saw yesterday has actually more than just my site. As Abe indicates, the PR update actually hit a lot of the major websites. I was surprised to see these sites get hit:

http://www.autoblog.com/ PR6 PR4
http://www.engadget.com/ PR7 PR5
http://www.problogger.net/ PR6 PR4
http://www.copyblogger.com/ PR6 PR4
http://www.joystiq.com/ PR6 PR4
http://www.tuaw.com/ PR6 PR4
http://www.searchengineguide.com PR7 PR4
http://www.searchenginejournal.com PR7 PR4
http://www.johnchow.com PR6 PR4
http://andybeard.eu PR5 PR3

Elliot describes a possible solution - by loading your non-important hyperlinks with the nofollow tag. He shows how he now distributes links throughout his website.

Aaron indicates that it hasn’t affected rankings though.

SERoundtable was on the list of sites which saw their toolbar PageRank scores reduced, but I just looked at some of the terms they were ranking for, and they are still right at or near the top of the results for everything they were ranking for, even the competitive terms.

It seems that this PR update started two weeks ago. It may actually still continue. I’ll make sure to look a the PR movements today.

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  1. Junelle on Oct 25, 2007, 6:12 am:

    I am still on PR4 … I hope it wont go down …

  2. ManuelV on Oct 25, 2007, 8:57 am:

    Other bloggers with links that look like paid links on their homepage are still hanging on to their PR6 (even if they’re not using nofollow tags).

    What sets them apart? Their traffic isn’t as high as the popular blogs.

  3. Eugene on Oct 25, 2007, 9:21 am:

    I’ve checked… all of my websites don’t seem to have moved at all. Some PR0 sites are still PR0, PR3… same. PR4… same as well. Weird.

  4. Miguel on Oct 25, 2007, 10:56 am:

    I think it’s just a cosmetic change to scare off Pagerank sellers and mess up the buying/selling rates. To drive Text Link Ads and other link sellers out of business, perhaps.

  5. Let’s Talk About PageRank - Macuha.com | Make Money Blogging About Anything Interesting on Oct 25, 2007, 11:32 am:

    [...] A lot of blogs were affected by the current PageRank update. Fortunately, none of my blogs got a downgrade. They all remain the same. Now, let me answer some of the questions being asked by some people to me, as if I’m an expert on this. Hehehe. Ok, these are just my opinion and might be wrong. Just share your thoughts on the comment section. [...]

  6. leo on Oct 25, 2007, 2:25 pm:

    Is PR thing really that valuable? As long as my earnings doesn’t change, it doesn’t seems to bother me at all. Oh, I don’t sell links anyway.

  7. Miguel on Oct 25, 2007, 2:32 pm:

    Exactly the point, Google wants to disrupt the link trading community by devaluing their currency.

  8. Junelle on Oct 28, 2007, 4:55 pm:

    I lost my PR 4 … now on PR 3 … guitarchic.net however increased her pr4 to pr5 :(( waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhh natuluyan nga ako Jozzua …

  9. Junelle on Oct 28, 2007, 5:06 pm:

    Hala … ang bago kong blog na ginawa ko noong September 12 lang … PR 3 na … ano ba to …

  10. Sonnie on Oct 31, 2007, 8:12 am:

    Mine got an upgrade to PR 5 :-)

  11. SONNIE’S PORCH » Blog Archive » Sonnie's Porch, A Notch Higher (PR 5) on Oct 31, 2007, 9:03 pm:

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