Google Announces PageRank Update

Google's Matt Cutts announced Google is pushing out "new toolbar PageRank values," over the course of the "next few days."

Yes, I keep saying toolbar PageRank is really all that not important. You can read my thoughts on that over here, but I honestly think this toolbar PageRank update is the most important one ever. Why?

Matt Cutts said, and I quote:

I figured the SEO industry could use something to discuss, so I thought I’d give people a heads-up about the toolbar PageRanks.

Yes, we 100% need something to discuss, other then ourselves. It has been a very rough week for the SEO community and this distraction will hopefully set things back on track. So, thank you Matt and Google for that.

Matt also notes that he is "expecting that also in the next few days" that Google will "be expiring some older penalties on websites." By penalties, we assume he means the Google Toolbar PageRank downgrade for selling links. Some were hit by this toolbar PageRank downgrade and have not yet seen an increase in their PageRank.

Forum discussion on the Google toolbar PageRank update at WebmasterWorld and DigitalPoint Forums and we have additional discussion at WebmasterWorld specifically on the topic of Google "expiring some older penalties on websites."

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posted rustybrick in Google PageRank/SERP Updates at July 25, 2008 8:24 AM Comments (11)

Comments

Are you expecting your pr7 back?

Posted by Peter at July 25, 2008 10:00

Peter, no I am not.

Posted by Barry Schwartz at July 25, 2008 10:03

My blog has only been online for a month therefore I doubt if it will have any page rank just yet.

Do you think using no follow on your ads would affect the sites revenue Barry?

Posted by Steve at July 25, 2008 10:42

Steve, yes I do.

Posted by Barry Schwartz at July 25, 2008 10:45

I expect pr3 or pr4 for my website, but i will see soon!

Posted by No Name at July 25, 2008 21:54

I expect pr6 or pr7 for my website, but i will see soon!

Posted by Suresh Choudhary at July 26, 2008 02:37

I expected nothing and still it has fallen down 4/3 :\

Posted by realest at July 26, 2008 06:58

Well this is my first page ranking ever... After 2 and a half months my pagerank is 3. IS that pretty good for a first time blogger? Also will this increase my search engine traffic at all?

Posted by Julian at July 26, 2008 12:05

Julian, it would depend what your keywords are. Personally, I think a PR of 3 is good for a first time blogger. Looks like you are running a focused blog.

I'd say keep on track and eventually, the search engine traffic will come.

Posted by Brad Isaac at July 26, 2008 22:33

The page rank of my blog goes down to PR0. What seems to be the problem

Posted by No Name at July 28, 2008 04:15

I have heard many people saying their PR went down this update, maybe it should be called a downdate :-)

Posted by No Name at July 30, 2008 19:43