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.
How was your experience with this PR update? Do Share.
Good to see the updated page ranking by Google. Hope this year they come up with updated page rankings often. It will help us to compare the rankings and also help us to employ new techniques to improve the ranking.
try as i might, i cannot ignore the significance of PR. well, i can, but i LOVE to see that little green bar get bigger, even thought i know it is a metric i am not really concerned about.
it’s interesting that it took google so long to update though…
I think I was overlooked by google… btw great blog,I enjoyed reading it and I hope that I will continue to 🙂
PageRank is not everything hopefully. And that was just a toolbar update anyway. I’m mad because my 2 websites didn’t go up 🙁
Unfortunelly my PR was dawn last year to 2 PR, and this year PR is 3. What is happened ?
Page rank is certainly the single most important ranking device for all sites and yep, what a relief to all webmasters out there. We look forward to good days in the future.
didnt get an upgrade this time round. oh well
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Nice article to share, I think the most impotant think is content of your site & more quality backlinks inside to have great pagerank..Goodluck
my pr was 0 it is 0 and i think it will remain 0 in the next few years