Entries from Search Engine Roundtable tagged with 'google pagerank'

There seems to be a Google Toolbar PageRank update going on right now. We have threads on the topic at WebmasterWorld, DigitalPoint Forums and HighRankings Forum. The update seemed to have started sometime yesterday afternoon and many SEOs and webmasters...

Posted on October 30, 2009 9:30 AM

tweetmeme_url = 'http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/020960.html'; tweetmeme_service = 'bit.ly';Google has removed the PageRank section in the crawl statistics in Google Webmaster Tools. This has gone mostly unnoticed, with the release of the labs feature, until now. A Google Webmaster Help thread reports...

Posted on October 15, 2009 9:27 AM

A few weeks ago, we ran a poll asking Will You Remove The NoFollow Attributes From Your Pages? Why did we ask SEOs and webmasters this question? With the recent update from Google on how they handle the nofollow'ed links,...

Posted on August 13, 2009 8:22 AM

Many webmasters and SEOs are reporting seeing an issue with the PageRank distribution report in Google Webmaster Tools. If you login and click on crawl stats, and then scroll to the bottom, you may or may not see data. I...

Posted on August 11, 2009 8:34 AM

With the latest on how Google handles the nofollow attribute, I know of many webmasters who are removing them completely from their sites. Instead, they are either not linking out or linking out without the nofollow attribute added to the...

Posted on July 21, 2009 9:03 AM

It seems like there are several threads around the SEO forum space that have discussion on a recent PageRank update. Yes, even more recent then the June PageRank update. There is a WebmasterWorld thread, a few DigitalPoint Forum threads and...

Posted on July 3, 2009 8:31 AM

There are hundreds of reports across the web about a Google PageRank update. Most of you know, I am not a fan of the PageRank score displayed in the Google Toolbar, but I report it anyway, because I report what...

Posted on June 24, 2009 8:20 AM

A couple weeks ago, the news that Google treated the distribution of PageRank for pages with nofollow links differently then they would other pages. As explained then: If you have $10 in authority to spend on those ten links, and...

Posted on June 17, 2009 7:23 AM

Yesterday we covered the news that SEOs are wasting PageRank by using the nofollow to sculpt their PageRank. In short, if you had 10 links on a page, and nofollowed 5 of them, the 5 that are followed only get...

Posted on June 4, 2009 9:48 AM

Last night at SMX Advanced Matt Cutts of Google reportedly dropped a bombshell on the SEO community when he said that using the nofollow to PageRank sculpt might not work like you (SEOs) thought. Danny Sullivan explained it well: If...

Posted on June 3, 2009 8:55 AM

Starting yesterday afternoon, people began noticing the little green pixels in the Google Toolbar began updating. Yes, there was a Google Toolbar PageRank update last night and many of the forums are buzzing about it. Yes, a Toolbar PageRank update...

Posted on May 28, 2009 7:34 AM

A Google Webmasters Help thread asks, what does it mean when the Google Toolbar PageRank indicator is a red color, as opposed to green? Here is a screen capture: So what does that mean? (1) Maybe this image was photoshoped...

Posted on May 22, 2009 9:02 AM

We rarely cover Google updates these days, since it appears Google is in a constant flux. But I have noticed a dozen or so threads at DigitalPoint Forums and an updated WebmasterWorld, plus a few threads at Google Webmasters Help...

Posted on May 12, 2009 8:27 AM

The last time we discussed the grey PageRank Google toolbar indicator was just about two years ago. It was then when the gray/grey color changed from meaning banned to having no clear meaning. Back then, there was a blank white...

Posted on April 21, 2009 8:52 AM

About a week ago, we wrote a piece about getting PageRank without links. In that write up, we wrote how Google may give pages temporary or artificial PageRank to make up for the page being new. We decided to poll...

Posted on April 16, 2009 7:34 AM

A WebmasterWorld thread has interesting discussion around the topic of pages earning Google PageRank with little or no links to those pages. The discussion was started by a webmaster who asked, how can his page have a PageRank score of...

Posted on April 6, 2009 8:42 AM

Yesterday, as well as today, I spotted dozens of threads on Google updating their site's toolbar PageRank scores. I didn't want to post the details until today, simply because it was April Fools. But the PageRank update seems to be...

Posted on April 2, 2009 8:06 AM

Over the weekend, I have seen tons and tons of threads in several forums with webmasters and SEOs complaining that their PageRank score in the Google Toolbar took a dive. I will just list two threads, because I cannot list...

Posted on March 2, 2009 7:48 AM

Last night at Search Engine Land I reported that Google Penalizes Google Japan For Buying Links. In short, the Google Japan team took on a marketing initiative to of paying bloggers for reviews, that turned out to be paid links,...

Posted on February 12, 2009 9:10 AM

Marcus Tandler blogged about a discovery in a German SEO thread at my old time friend's forum named ABAKUS Forums (translated version over here), about a weird loophole that seems to allow you to check if a site is penalized...

Posted on January 20, 2009 4:48 PM

Over the weekend, I noticed many reports from a wide array of search forums, where webmasters are noticing their PageRank scores drop in the Google Toolbar. We have threads from WebmasterWorld, two from DigitalPoint Forums, and a Google Webmaster Help...

Posted on January 19, 2009 8:10 AM

On Tuesday, we ran a poll asking if Google's PageRank data reports in Webmaster Tools useless or useful. The results are in and the majority of SEOs believe those reports are completely useless. I am one to agree with the...

Posted on January 9, 2009 8:46 AM

A WebmasterWorld thread asks just how accurate is the table in Google Webmaster Tools that shows the details of "Your page with the highest PageRank." It is found under "Statistics" and then under "Crawl stats" at the bottom of the...

Posted on January 6, 2009 9:19 AM

An older WebmasterWorld thread has been updated to share the time frame it took this webmaster to transfer his Google PageRank scores from old URLs to new URLs. In summary, he set up a new URL structure (possibly a new...

Posted on January 6, 2009 8:23 AM

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....

Posted on December 31, 2008 7:58 AM

Over the weekend, I have noticed several threads mentioning updates to Google's Toolbar PageRank scores. The reports are not as widespread as a typical Toolbar PageRank update warrants, which leads me to ask, is this a true Toolbar PageRank update...

Posted on December 22, 2008 7:57 AM

A WebmasterWorld thread has discussion around how Google seems to not be promoting the PageRank indicator on the latest version of their toolbar. In fact, no longer is Google showing the PageRank score in the marketing image used on the...

Posted on November 4, 2008 7:56 AM

A week or so ago, there was a Google toolbar PageRank update. I am now seeing several reports at DigitalPoint Forums and updates to a WebmasterWorld thread that Google seems to be rolling back that toolbar PageRank update. Honestly, I...

Posted on October 7, 2008 7:49 AM

Over the weekend, Google updated the toolbar PageRank values. In fact, Matt Cutts of Google basically confirmed the update before it happened, saying: I wouldn’t be surprised if new PageRanks started showing up this weekend or so. I figured, since...

Posted on September 29, 2008 7:42 AM

I cannot tell you how many times we see threads that are either reporting or questioning if there is a Google PageRank update. We try to document all "real" toolbar PageRank updates here, but often, very often, there are smaller...

Posted on September 16, 2008 8:13 AM

Google's web browser, Chrome, launched two days ago and it was missing one major feature that SEOs took notice of. That feature is the PageRank indicator found in the Google Toolbar. But why is it missing? Is it just a...

Posted on September 4, 2008 7:53 AM

In May, we blogged about Google VP of Engineering Udi Manber's post where he introduced search quality. In the same post, he says that Google has "made significant changes to the PageRank algorithm in January." Last week, Matt Cutts told...

Posted on July 28, 2008 10:19 AM

Google pushes out toolbar PageRank updates every 3 months or so. The most recent one was over the weekend, which helped generate some buzz. But the reality is, what Google shows as PageRank in the toolbar is way out of...

Posted on July 28, 2008 8:01 AM

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...

Posted on July 25, 2008 8:24 AM

The incredibly popular NewsDay.com was at a PageRank of five recently, and Google specifically confirmed that NewsDay received this PageRank penalty due to "selling links that pass PageRank." But when I look at the Google Toolbar now at www.newsday.com, it...

Posted on July 11, 2008 6:02 AM

A Cre8asite Forums thread has a member who is a bit concerned that the page listed in his Google Webmaster Tools, crawl stats section for "highest PageRank" is not his home page. Instead, an internal page is listed as having...

Posted on July 3, 2008 7:40 AM

A WebmasterWorld thread asks a question most people who participate in search forums ask themselves. Does Google, on occasion, update the toolbar PageRank score of a particular web site between the major and mass toolbar PageRank updates we report? Why...

Posted on June 26, 2008 7:43 AM

A WebmasterWorld thread is suggesting that after his site was hit by the PageRank penalty from several months ago, he has been getting more qualified advertisers. Here is what this publisher is saying: I've noticed an increase in quality advertisers...

Posted on June 17, 2008 7:31 AM

On Thursday, we broke the news that the Yahoo Directory had no PageRank via a WebmasterWorld thread. Matt Cutts of Google quickly commented saying that the Yahoo Directory has a PageRank of 8. Matt was referring to the home page,...

Posted on June 8, 2008 3:34 PM

Just a few weeks ago, people started noticing that the Yahoo Directory lost Google PageRank. Well, not the home page of the Yahoo Directory, but the inside directory listing pages. The pages that link to your site and, in the...

Posted on June 5, 2008 10:28 AM

I am seeing reports from across the SEO forums that Google has updated or begun the update of the PageRank score found within the Google Toolbar. We have threads at DigitalPoint Forums, Search Engine Roundtable Forums, WebmasterWorld and Search Engine...

Posted on April 29, 2008 7:54 AM

A DigitalPoint Forums thread asks if PageRank sculpting, be it through the nofollow attribute, JavaScript or robots.txt file, can it penalize you in Google? Will Google ever look at that to penalize your site? And so on. I am 99%...

Posted on April 21, 2008 8:08 AM

I have been tracking a thread at WebmasterWorld where this webmaster is shocked to learn that the site he just acquired now has a PageRank score of 10. Before buying the site, it had no PageRank score at all but...

Posted on April 9, 2008 8:09 AM

Google has updated the PageRank bars within the Google Directory recently. The new update now matches the PageRank values of the Google Toolbar. For example, the Computers > Internet > Web Design and Development > Promotion > Weblogs category now...

Posted on April 4, 2008 8:02 AM

Have we beaten the Google Toolbar PageRank value dead yet? If not, here is yet another reason not to take too much insight to the value displayed in the Google Toolbar. Googler, Berghausen, said in a Google Group thread, and...

Posted on March 10, 2008 7:35 AM

I honestly wanted to avoid this topic, but due to the amount of attention on this topic right now, it is our duty to let the non-forum activists know about the controversy. Shari Thurow authored an article on Search Engine...

Posted on March 7, 2008 7:52 AM

After reviewing DigitalPoint Forums, I saw about 5 different threads discussing a PageRank update at Google. I am honestly not sure if this is a legit update but it doesn't really matter. A toolbar PageRank update has no immediate or...

Posted on February 26, 2008 9:00 AM

Some may have missed this and I tried to avoid writing about it again, but I figured it might be good to document for the future. Google has pushed out yet another PageRank update for those sites who sell links,...

Posted on February 19, 2008 7:11 AM

While everyone continues to stress about Google PageRank (and I, too, am one of those types at times... some people make fun of me often), it's rather easy to give up and hand it to Google for impacting your site...

Posted on February 7, 2008 9:02 AM

A DigitalPoint Forums thread reports that Google Directory also noticed an update from DMOZ and new PageRank bars. We reported last week on the first PageRank update of 2008, and as Andy Beard points out also, the Google Directory is...

Posted on January 14, 2008 7:03 AM

Today we are having our first Google Toolbar PageRank update of 2008. At least there are dozens and dozens of reports that PageRank scores on the 72.14.25.x data center has been updated. What does this mean to you? To your...

Posted on January 10, 2008 6:53 AM

We are getting reports from across the SEO forums that Google has done another toolbar PageRank update. The update seems to be, once again, hitting sites that sell or buy links. Many are seeing PageRank drops to a flat out...

Posted on January 8, 2008 7:01 AM

Ever since Google downgraded the visible PageRank scores seen in the Google Toolbar for sites that do not use the nofollow on their ads, people have been wondering how it has been impacting the Google search results and algorithm. Most...

Posted on January 2, 2008 7:20 AM

A topic most SEOs already know, but it is nice to have confirmation from Google. A Google Groups thread has Googlers responding to a Webmaster who's site dropped from a PageRank 4 to a PageRank of 0. It appears this...

Posted on December 18, 2007 7:56 AM

There is discussion at a DigitalPoint Forums thread that Google is updating the visible toolbar PageRank scores. I personally did not look deep into this. Because (1) Toolbar PageRank is not all that significant and (2) I am very under...

Posted on December 17, 2007 8:49 AM

Before beginning this post, I will be honest, I struggled if I should post anything at all, because I feel like I have been writing about this PageRank update way too often in the past three months. But I found...

Posted on December 6, 2007 8:01 AM

Many SEOs have been calling for Google to remove the PageRank score from the Google Toolbar for years now. Heck, we wrote dozens of articles on it, including these: Why Do Some SEOs Want Toolbar PageRank To Go Away? Google...

Posted on December 4, 2007 7:43 AM

With all the debate and discussion around paid links these days, some DigitalPoint Forums members are wondering how Google can get away with selling links that are not nofollowed. That is right, if you want a PageRank 7 link directly...

Posted on November 29, 2007 7:13 AM

Andy Beard has been tracking the Google PageRank changes like a hawk and he reported PageRank Zeros to many sites. There are also many people reporting PageRank Zeros at DigitalPoint Forums. Those reporting that they have a PageRank of zero...

Posted on November 16, 2007 7:38 AM

Google has updated the Toolbar PageRank score again over the weekend. Reports come from WebmasterWorld and a dozen different threads at DigitalPoint Forums. This seems to be a continuation of the paid link PageRank downgrades. Andy Beard documented some of...

Posted on November 12, 2007 8:03 AM

There are hundreds of third party PageRank tools that show Google's Toolbar PageRank score. Some of the more popular ones can be found by doing a search in Google for pagerank checker. Many of these tools are now not able...

Posted on November 9, 2007 7:12 AM

There is an excellent Cre8asite Forums thread brewing on the topic of Google's Supplemental Index. The thread basically asks if the percent of pages on a specific domain can be used to determine the overall site's importance in the eyes...

Posted on November 5, 2007 7:13 AM

The largest topic by far this week in the forums is the PageRank update that hit sites that are selling links. There are literally dozens upon dozens of threads at many of the webmaster forums on the topic. We covered...

Posted on October 30, 2007 7:37 AM

With all that is going on with these PageRank Scores, I am seriously amazed to see a DigitalPoint Forums thread with a poll that shows SEOs are still all over the board on the meaning of PageRank. The poll asked...

Posted on October 26, 2007 7:07 AM

Yesterday we reported about a 2nd Google PageRank in October 2007 which turned out to be a message from Google, at least most of us think so. At Search Engine Land I wrote in Google's PageRank Update Goes After Paid...

Posted on October 25, 2007 7:27 AM

A DigitalPoint Forums thread is reporting yet another large PageRank update taking place in the Google Toolbar. So you know, there already was a PageRank update this month and it is unusual for there to be large PageRank updates twice...

Posted on October 24, 2007 7:14 AM

Seems like Google rolled out some new green pixy dust to their Google Toolbar PageRank bar. There are threads at both DigitalPoint Forums and WebmasterWorld discussing the PageRank update. Here is my disclaimer on PageRank, before people start jumping on...

Posted on October 8, 2007 8:22 AM

Gabs from SEO Home reported at a Search Engine Roundtable Forums thread that the Google Directory PageRank bars have updated. There is a difference, sometimes, between the PageRank shown in the Google Directory when compared to the PageRank shown in...

Posted on September 25, 2007 6:47 AM

When you login to Google Webmasters Tools and click on your "Crawl stats" under the statistics section, you are suppose to see a screen like this: Notice it shows two tables, the first is for "The PageRank of your pages...

Posted on September 18, 2007 7:40 AM

Tedster, administer over at WebmasterWorld, started a WebmasterWorld thread with a proposal to remove PageRank from the toolbar. As he explains, the PageRank score in the toolbar is an out-of-date metric that is often misconstrued by SEOs and webmasters. Tedster...

Posted on August 8, 2007 8:06 AM

EGOL started a thread at Cre8asite Forums asking how using the various robots.txt command or META noindex nofollow commands will impact the flow of PageRank and link popularity. Several members go through some detailed examples and what-if scenarios. However, Ammon...

Posted on July 31, 2007 7:29 AM

This may be considered a continuation of the June 2007 Google Update but it has now been given a name. The Buffy update, as it is now called out of respect for Vanessa Fox leaving Google, is currently underway. Yes,...

Posted on June 18, 2007 6:54 AM

I'll be honest, I haven't been following the different shades of colors in the Google Toolbar. But Gabs, someone I trust started a thread at Search Engine Roundtable Forums noting that new pages now have a grey color in the...

Posted on May 2, 2007 7:29 AM

This weekend we has a PageRank update and many noticed a drop in their toolbar PageRank scores. Earlier, on Friday, we reported some were noticing possible buggy PageRank values. Where some noticed their PageRank drop from a number to zero...

Posted on May 1, 2007 7:58 AM

As much as you explain that toolbar PageRank does not show you a result that you can work with, people still tend to obsess about PageRank. Go ahead and read Danny's PageRank Guide once again. In any event, on Friday...

Posted on April 30, 2007 7:05 AM

Now that we know that toolbar PageRank does not mean all that much, in terms of ones ranking at this point in time - we can discuss a possible bug in the Google Toolbar. A WebmasterWorld thread has dozens of...

Posted on April 27, 2007 7:47 AM

I finally had time last night to read Danny's What Is Google PageRank? A Guide For Searchers & Webmasters. This write up is undoubtedly the best explanation of Google PageRank I have seen in years. Not only does it include...

Posted on April 27, 2007 6:58 AM

Ready for a laugh? A WebmasterWorld thread has someone asking if he is crazy that he is using Google's PageRank score as one of the factors in picking a business school for him to attend. I am in the process...

Posted on March 19, 2007 7:54 AM

Looks like we have reports via WebmasterWorld starting a few days back of a Google PageRank update. I am not getting in the debate of how important PageRank is or is not. I discussed PageRank over here so that I...

Posted on March 2, 2007 8:17 AM

In a WebmasterWorld thread, there is a question about how can one preserve the PageRank value they have on his pages and not spread it out to others too much. Of course, you know my rant on PageRank, but outside...

Posted on February 9, 2007 7:34 AM

After writing my piece named Why Do Some SEOs Want Toolbar PageRank To Go Away? I found a thread at DigitalPoint Forums asking members to vote if "PR is Overhyped." Here are the current results: 80% vote yes, PageRank is...

Posted on February 1, 2007 7:16 AM

Recently, there has been a lot of discussion over the PageRank score found within Google's Toolbar. So I thought I explain why I, and many other SEOs/SEM reporters would love to see the PageRank score disappear from the Google Toolbar....

Posted on January 31, 2007 6:55 AM

Last night, more new reports of PageRank changes have been reported at the various forums. Again, the PageRank score shown in the Google Toolbar is old, not up to date, and is basically for entertainment purposes only - but people...

Posted on January 26, 2007 7:46 AM

Just a quick note that there may be a possible PageRank update taking place right now. It is unsure to if this update is a new one or something called a PageRank rollback. Some even think that the earlier PageRank...

Posted on November 2, 2006 7:19 AM

According to Brett Tabke in this "WebmasterWorld thread, links within the NOSCRIPT tag are not counted by Google in terms of passing PageRank. Brett adds that "Google flips on/off support for noscript indexing from time to time," meaning Google may...

Posted on October 17, 2006 7:57 AM

Yes, an other Google PageRank update is underway. For example DigitalPoint.com has some data centers reporting a PageRank of 8, when it is currently at a PageRank on 7. Check the DigitalPoint's pagerank at this tool. The data centers with...

Posted on September 29, 2006 6:58 AM

Reports via WebmasterWorld that backlinks have been updated over night at Google. What does this mean? I suspect not much, just like it meant very little for the August 25th Back Link update. That update was coined "Pluto" but was...

Posted on September 14, 2006 7:55 AM

A WebmasterWorld thread reports that back links are being updates at some of Google's data centers. The data centers documented with the updated back links are at 64.233.187.104 and 64.233.187.99. What does this mean for SEOs and your rankings? Um,...

Posted on August 25, 2006 9:42 AM

A WebmasterWorld thread discusses, what they suggest to be, issues unique to UK based sites, within the UK only Google search results. One such example; A site:domainname search lists the pages in the site ok when performed in the default...

Posted on August 23, 2006 7:17 AM