Where’s Our Google Pagerank Update?
I wrote in this space back on July 25 that a Google Pagerank update was underway. Guess what? It’s not finished. Updates usually take a week or three. There’s a lot of buzz on the “internets” about what’s going on … everything from the update still being underway, to Google actually deciding to do away with Pagerank (or at least the displaying of Pagerank).
I don’t see Google actually eliminating PR altogether. It’s supposedly the backbone of the search engine. If they did away with it, they’d have to rebuild the entire house of cards. However, eliminating the *display* of PR is a possibility. As we know, Google is on a crusade against link spam, and much of link spam is based on getting links on the sites with the highest PR.
The most likely explanation for the delay is that Google is reconfiguring their search matrix somehow, but I have no evidence of that. With Google, you don’t learn anything about what they’re doing until it’s already done … and even then, they don’t tell you much.
And so, this blog’s PR remains at zero.
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Page rank used to be updated around once a month. Then it changed to once a quarter. Many seo experts now think it will be every 6 months.
Is this good or bad? For a webmaster who has a high pr site it is very good as they will be able to sell links for a longer period. If you have a new site it can be very frustrating as you wait to see if your link and seo efforts have been rewarded.
Google are attempting to do away with paid links and are no doubt hoping that by only updating twice a year will damage the market. With a lot of people buying on a month by month basis this could actually work.
Another idea is that page rank could be replaced by a trust rank toolbar.
This would be a great idea in my opinion.
Steve
it did used to be consistent but now it seems that after each update the next one takes longer to come around than usual, however it has now been 6 months and it is now updating i have had some positive result so far and also at http://www.googlebugs.com there are stats/results that show this is now happening!!!!!!!!!!!!
thanks
aks
Personally, I’m getting rather impatient. This blog has been sitting at PR0 for quite some time, while the rest of my domain is PR3 or above.