Were You PageRankled?
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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October 25th, 2007 - 06:12
I am still on PR4 … I hope it wont go down …
October 25th, 2007 - 08:57
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.
October 25th, 2007 - 09:21
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.
October 25th, 2007 - 10:56
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.
October 25th, 2007 - 14:25
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.
October 25th, 2007 - 14:32
Exactly the point, Google wants to disrupt the link trading community by devaluing their currency.
October 28th, 2007 - 16:55
I lost my PR 4 … now on PR 3 … guitarchic.net however increased her pr4 to pr5 :(( waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhh natuluyan nga ako Jozzua …
October 28th, 2007 - 17:06
Hala … ang bago kong blog na ginawa ko noong September 12 lang … PR 3 na … ano ba to …
October 31st, 2007 - 08:12
Mine got an upgrade to PR 5 :-)