PageRank dropped??

05 October 2007 Joost de Valk 25 comments, leave your own!

Although I don't see a PageRank update going on, somehow, the PageRank on my frontpage suddenly dropped to 5... Seems they're dropping PageRank on linksellers, JasonD was hit as well...

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24 Responses to “PageRank dropped??”

  2. By Joost de Valk Fri, October 5th, 2007 at 11:40

    it didn't affect my rankings btw.

  3. By Richard Hearne Fri, October 5th, 2007 at 12:26

    Never sold a link in my life - my site seems to be showing the same drop fro 6 to 5.

    My take - there may be about to change the entire way TBPR is calculated and reported. They'd take it down altogether if they could...

  4. By André Scholten Fri, October 5th, 2007 at 11:37

    I checked some local Dutch portals (startpagina and clones) and it looks like they are dropping too. But I'm not 100% convinced I'm right.

    If it is a hit on links sellers, especially linkportals, I would love to see the results.

  5. By Gary Fri, October 5th, 2007 at 12:40

    Looks like Phoenixrealm has dropped from 6 to 5 as well!!

  6. By Richard Hearne Fri, October 5th, 2007 at 12:54

    Here's an interesting issue - while the actual TBPR displayed seems to have dropped by one point, the PR displayed in SERPs via SEObook tool shows the higher figure.

    I know you're familiar with grabbing PR Joost - any ideas on whether there are multiple sources for TBPR?

  7. By Joost de Valk Fri, October 5th, 2007 at 13:06

    All the datacenters are showing the same PR, yet the rankings haven't changed at ALL. I'm guessing this is just to poke a bit.

    Richard: perhaps you've been buying links? :)

  8. By Mirco Fri, October 5th, 2007 at 13:30

    I can't see any changes on the Pagerank. All sites where I remember the PR have still the same.

  9. By Joost de Valk Fri, October 5th, 2007 at 13:32

    Yeah it's not an update, posts that were made 1 day after the previous update haven't gotten PR yet. It's just selectively on sites, though I see a LOT of Dutch link selling sites loosing PR.

  10. By Richard Hearne Fri, October 5th, 2007 at 13:40

    I take it all back - it must have been a relic from going from your site to mine. Still PR6 across all DCs.

    Moi - buy links? Perhaps late last year, but these days I don't need them (too much ;-) ).

    I think it's fair to say we can expect some further changes in an attempt to offset the surge in SEO Google is observing.

  12. By Nicolas Fri, October 5th, 2007 at 13:54

    Apparently, Google has rolled back their index due to spam - end of june / early july?. See http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/10/01/google_spam_infiltration/ for info, and blog from Matt Cutts:
    http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/still-chugging/#comment-113783

  13. By Joost de Valk Fri, October 5th, 2007 at 14:12

    @Karl: btw I looked at it, and they're indeed stealing content and doing some sneaky flash based redirection... The domain is banned though.

  15. By Champi Sun, October 7th, 2007 at 12:16

    Many sites already dropped with one point. A lot of talking at the forums. Mine too :(

  16. By Wiep Sun, October 7th, 2007 at 13:07

    "it didn't affect my rankings btw."

    Ok, so what's the problem? ;)

  17. By Joost de Valk Sun, October 7th, 2007 at 13:12

    Who said there was a problem? :P

  18. By David Hopkins Sun, October 7th, 2007 at 13:21

    John Chow has also dropped from 6 to 5.

  19. By Wiep Sun, October 7th, 2007 at 14:03

    I didn't, but I noticed you changed your blogroll's set up.
    Or did that happen together with the other layout changes?

  20. By Joost de Valk Sun, October 7th, 2007 at 16:59

    Yeah that was part of the overall change. However the "penalties" are quite specific, so for now it's just toolbar PR, basically just FUD, in a while it might be more...

  21. By SEO Carly Wed, October 10th, 2007 at 05:42

    I think it's FUD as well, these PR changes havn't propogated through the DC's like a regular update which is highly odd.

    If any recalculation has gone on due to link selling, one would assume a deep crawl to identify all possible sold links within a website. Then the new dataset pushed to the first DC, followed by a propogation between the other DC's over a day or two.

    This hasn't happened, it's been instant which is quite odd. Also Google Directory appears to be showing the new -1PR values. I can't see them updating this the other week then again for this when it took nearly 2 years for 1 update.

    Almost seems like a glitch.

  22. By web Mon, September 29th, 2008 at 00:59

    Can someone please tell me why my website http://www.spiralteck.com page ranks keeps alternating between pr3 and pr4

  23. By DemoGeek Thu, June 25th, 2009 at 14:41

    I had a page rank of 3 for a while now...but very lately it has dropped to 2 and is impacting the traffic quite a bit. Any thoughts on why this must have happened? Any pointers on how to get back to that 3 level at least?

  24. By sms Tue, August 25th, 2009 at 22:18

    i need info on how this ranking thing works.

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