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…
PageRank dropped??
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http://www.buydomain.com/blog/302hijacks_and_domain_name_spam.html
Worth taking a look at.
it didn’t affect my rankings btw.
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…
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.
Looks like Phoenixrealm has dropped from 6 to 5 as well!!
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?
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? :)
I can’t see any changes on the Pagerank. All sites where I remember the PR have still the same.
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.
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.
yeah think so too.
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
@Karl: btw I looked at it, and they’re indeed stealing content and doing some sneaky flash based redirection… The domain is banned though.
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.
Many sites already dropped with one point. A lot of talking at the forums. Mine too :(
“it didn’t affect my rankings btw.”
Ok, so what’s the problem? ;)
Who said there was a problem? :P
John Chow has also dropped from 6 to 5.
I didn’t, but I noticed you changed your blogroll’s set up.
Or did that happen together with the other layout changes?
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…
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.
Can someone please tell me why my website http://www.spiralteck.com page ranks keeps alternating between pr3 and pr4
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?
i need info on how this ranking thing works.