Phew! It was a long wait before the big G decided to update the toolbar PageRank this time. Webmasters had been waiting for this update with bated breath since April last year. Google usually updates the Toolbar PageRank 4-5 times a year. But 2010 proved to be an exception. The only update that happened in 2010 was in April.
There were rumours that the exclusive licence for the PageRank granted to Google by Stanford University (which is said to hold the patent for PR) was expiring in 2011, and Google may not get the license renewed unlike it did in 2003. SEO folks were busy guessing what would be the consequences if Google decided to ditch the PageRank.
However, January 20, 2011 saw Google updating the toolbar PageRank, with many breathing a sigh of relief. It was not much of good news for eZaroorat though. Our ranking slipped down to 4; it was 5 earlier (for the uninitiated, PageRank in measured on a scale of 10, and higher is better). But we are glad that PageRank of some of our network sites went up.
It was also nice to see some of our fellow bloggers join the elite club of PR7. Notable among them are Techline Info & ProBlogger whose PR went up from 6 to 7. Congrats buddies! That’s definitely not a small achievement.
How was your experience with this PR update? Do Share.
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Yeah it is good to know that google updated its pagerank and also might have renewed the license…. new bloggers like us got a big relief as we have something to cheerup, am sure ezaroorat will get back to pr 5 or 6 in the next update…. thanks for the information
Good to know that your network blogs got pagerank, keep up the good work, i hope ezaroorat will also get back to page rank 5 or 6 for sure in next update……
Ohh! Thanks for the update! Now I will have to check the page ranks for my websites. It takes a lot of effort just getting the ranks up!
Google, google, google, What we took from you.
Looking forward to see my site’s PR increase from PR0 to PR1.
thanks for the article, after all that pagerank rumors
It takes a lot of time and effort to maintain pagerank, hope its here to stay. Thanks
Wow didnt know there was only one update in 2010. Hope we;ll have many this year
Didn’t even notice that page rank was updated in January – bad sign for those of us with very low pagerank! All the best for next update this year
Great article. The PR must be followed with attention for this year…
Thanks, Paulie
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