Google Confirms PageRank Update (New Years 2009)

Over Christmas and the holidays, we reported early signs of a Toolbar PageRank Update. Those reports have now been confirmed by Google's Matt Cutts via Twitter. Matt said about 6 hours ago:

Yes, Google updated our toolbar PageRank values today. Consider this the confirmation.

You can then see other Googler's like JohnMu, "liking this" on Matt's FriendFeed page.

Of course, we have a whole new slew of PageRank update threads and posts now. They include:

The folks over at the brand new Google Webmaster Help section are happy to see their new forum reach a PageRank of 7, in a matter of just weeks.

So there you have it, as expected, the Toolbar PageRank update has been confirmed.

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posted rustybrick in Google PageRank/SERP Updates at December 31, 2008 7:58 AM Comments (13)

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Happy new years

Posted by Rajendra kumar at January 1, 2009 01:19

Thanks for the confirmation, we've been seeing it for the past several days too.

Posted by Arnie K at January 1, 2009 11:31

Yes, The big G has done it again. Happy New Year!!!!

Posted by fred at January 2, 2009 03:40

Many say that Google PR is irrelevant, but I for one am here to say that the psychological bump of we just got from and increase in PR is sweet. Makes a guy want to get that darned web site better and better for the next PR review.

Posted by Jeff at January 2, 2009 09:30

Hi,

It's getting hard to pass over PR3 here :-)

Happy New Year 2009,

José

Posted by José at January 2, 2009 20:07

For those that think that GPR is irrelevant - have a look at this - we have gone from a PR1 to PR3 and our (organic google) visitors have gone from around 100 per day, to around 3/400 per day now! Obviously this is also translating in terms of registrations and of course sales ;)

Posted by ck at January 3, 2009 07:01

This is a good news for most of website which employ SEO for their website and for me too. Bcoz my website has revieved one more PageRank i.e. 3 --> 4 :)

Posted by No Name at January 9, 2009 01:43

It kicked my PR back to 0..wonder why..haven't subscribed to any link farms.
What a bad start!

Posted by Fanatika at January 10, 2009 09:03

I am listening from so many SEO's whose websites have been dropped on Google this month. All those sites had one thing in common, the keywords stuffed pages. I wonder how Google can delist whole website for some pages.

Posted by No Name at January 12, 2009 03:42

Yeah, and also i read another post that the PR algorithm of this year is very much complicated. Wonder what are the new changes been made

Posted by No Name at January 26, 2009 11:28

Is there an offical database anywhere that tells the upcoming updates, or how do people know? Just keeping up with their PR boosts and drops?

Posted by Raptorak at February 17, 2009 22:31

Can you tell me that when the next update will take place??

Posted by No Name at July 9, 2009 14:06

I read another post that the PR algorithm of this year is very much complicated.This is not a good news

Posted by KPOP at October 6, 2009 22:38