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.
my site is balikesir haber and it is pagerank is so low, this post is very usefull for me thanks for this great share
I think I was overlooked by google… btw great blog,I enjoyed reading it and I hope that I will continue to
Thanks for this article.
Some of my sites dropped their PR while others got higher PR.
But i have soled out them now and im staring a new beggining, evrything for me iss less. 🙂
I think there is always a kind of hype created about Google’s page rank, although it is not that important in my personal opinion. And probably this is the reason that Google has stopped updating the toolbar page rank quite often. Nevertheless, it’s a nice article! For my site though, I didn’t see any change in the toolbar page rank.
Thanks for the update. I don’t know that Google has updated PR only one time in 2010. Looking forward for more than that in 2011.
it is a structured architecture which has a base with page rank
nice article thanks
Im excited to see when I get pass PR 0 hihi 🙂
I am wondering if anyone is familiar with Mozrank? From what I understand SEOMOZ rank is very similar to pagerank and yet I have a zero pagerank and 4 Mozrank. Does anyone know that difference?
Wow really only 4-5 times a year? That sucks, I thought it updated a lot more often. Ohh well 😛
Congratulations on the increase in PR of your fellow websites! And too bad that your PR slipped a bit but I don’t think its that bad. I’m sure it’ll increase next update 😀
Thanks for the update. The Page rank tool is very useful, especially to those building their own sites. I think I should check my pr more often. Thanks again for the post.