Early Page Rank Update For 1st Quarter 2008

The time of the year has come again when every webmaster will be sweating over their websites’ page rank. As you know, Google updates page rank of each site every quarterly. The last update was in early Jan, however these few days; I started noticing the page rank on all my websites behaving abnormally.

I have websites spread across a few web hosts and servers and surprising all the page rank start behaving abnormally at the same time. One moment, I have a site page rank down to zero and the next day, the website has its page rank increased.

I don’t recall experiencing such abnormities during the last update and after a quick check in various forums revealed that Google may have change its page rank algorithm and that might be the cause of my websites’ abnormalities.

Luckily, the change in algorithm did not affect my websites ranking that much. In fact most of my sites, old and new have seen an increase in page rank except for one blog which is penalized and has its page rank dropped to “0”. I suspected it may have to do with all those paid postings that I have been doing all these time.

Anyway, according to other webmasters, the updating is still in progress and may last until the end of the month.

So how did your sites fared during this update?

Google Page Rank Update – 3rd Quarter 07

It has been months since Google last did their Page Rank update. Talks have been going round in forums and blogs about the Google Page Rank update and when will it finished.

No one has any clear idea when their sites will be updated but according to news going round in forums and blogs, Google has started to penalize those sites that have been selling links. Many webmasters who have been selling links on their sites through ads networks like Text Link Ads have been slap with Page Rank penalty which result in lower Page Rank for their sites.

For me, this round of updating is a mixture or joy and disappointment. Although disappointment is a tad too harsh as all my sites have experience Page Rank increases. In fact most of my sites jumped from straight unranked to a Page Rank of 3 or 4 whereas the sites that I focus most on only have a slight increase in Page Rank of 1 to 2 places.

I supposed these sites are being slapped with Page Rank penalties as I have been selling links through these sites. But I can still take heart from seeing that ProfitablePoint has a slight increase in Page Rank to 1 even though this blog is less than 2 months old. In fact I was quite surprise by the increase in Page Rank as I did not do anything much except for updating ProfitablePoint regularly.

From this update, it seems that Google has changed its Page Rank algorithm and this is just the beginning according to some who said that the next coming update in 2008 is going to be more harsh on those selling text links.

But what make this whole Page Rank update so interesting and fun to watch is the way webmasters are all going crazy over the Page Rank update. Wonder how’s the next round of updates are going to be! Seems like real fun!