PageRank dropped??

by Joost de Valk on 5 October, 2007 at 08:19 25 comments

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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25 Responses to “PageRank dropped??”

by Karl on 5 October, 2007 at 10:23

http://www.buydomain.com/blog/302hijacks_and_domain_name_spam.html

Worth taking a look at.

by Joost de Valk on 5 October, 2007 at 11:40

it didn't affect my rankings btw.

by Richard Hearne on 5 October, 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...

by André Scholten on 5 October, 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.

by Gary on 5 October, 2007 at 12:40

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

by Richard Hearne on 5 October, 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?

by Joost de Valk on 5 October, 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? :)

by Mirco on 5 October, 2007 at 13:30

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

by Joost de Valk on 5 October, 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.

by Richard Hearne on 5 October, 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.

by Joost de Valk on 5 October, 2007 at 13:40

yeah think so too.

by Nicolas on 5 October, 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

by Joost de Valk on 5 October, 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.

by Alain on 6 October, 2007 at 09:14

http://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-pagerank-update-this-weekend-backlinks-and-pagerank-changes-reported/5777/

I had one site loose over 800 backlinks. No changes in PR on any of my sites, tho.

by Champi on 7 October, 2007 at 12:16

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

by Wiep on 7 October, 2007 at 13:07

"it didn't affect my rankings btw."

Ok, so what's the problem? ;)

by Joost de Valk on 7 October, 2007 at 13:12

Who said there was a problem? :P

by David Hopkins on 7 October, 2007 at 13:21

John Chow has also dropped from 6 to 5.

by Wiep on 7 October, 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?

by Joost de Valk on 7 October, 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...

by SEO Carly on 10 October, 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.

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by web on 29 September, 2008 at 00:59

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

by DemoGeek on 25 June, 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?

by sms on 25 August, 2009 at 22:18

i need info on how this ranking thing works.