PR has arrived!

Thanks Seoforumz. I’ve been working on websites since 1995 and did some low-level seo stuff as early as 1998 with AltaVista. Honestly, I’ve focused more on building websites since then as SEO kind of faded into the background until Google came about. My recent entry into the gambling industry gave me the inspiration to get back into SEO, so I’ve really only been doing it since maybe September of last year, but I’ve read a ton, have a friend who works for an SEO company providing advice, and tried some things out on my gambling site as well as other sites I manage.

In relation to this thread, I did see a PR5 early this morning, though it’s back to the PR4 I’ve been staring at for the last 3+ months. Google needs to get on monthly updates or something, 3 months feels like an eternity online.

Webber286. You are exactly right about your findings during this PR update. Things are a changin’ over at the Googleplex and it looks like they are trying some new things with some of their features. I guess we will have to wait for a formal ‘update’ from Matt Cutts or the Google blog before we have an indication of what’s going on.

I have been reading your posts for awhile now and am impressed at your level of knowledge regarding SEO. How long have you been in the game?

Most of the best SEO’s do not work for other people, they usually have their own sites either affiliate or some other niche. They are good at what they do, so most rely on their skills for their own sites and do really well on the Net. I am guessing you fit into that category, but either way you know your stuff and give genuinely good advice.

It would be cool to have you stop by my forums sometime and share some of your knowledge in our SEO tips category! :drunk2:

weird, now its all gone, also from other sites I checked, could be because they are in the middle of the update?

I heard of one site that got a PR=5 and is only 5 weeks old (wish it was mine). I hope the rest of the members here get good results this PR update and that at least some of your hard work is paying off in search results pages and traffic to your sites.

Hey from PR0 to PR3 in the 4 months I’ve been around. Not too shabby!

Well, we got PR3 for about 70% of the site and the rest got PR4. Index got 3 though.
All pages started off at 0 so I guess it is good.

thanks for the info!

It usually takes just a few days to sync completely through all DC’s, but Google has been doing things a little out of pattern as of late so there is really no way to tell how long THIS PR/BL update will take to show up on all DC’s.

Keep an eye on Matt Cutts blog, he will probably update us all Monday or Tuesday depending on if he recognizes PREZ day and is working or not.

I estimated that this PR/BL update was going to happen on Valentines day, so I guess I wasn’t that far off (only 4 days).

I didn’t see any PR or BL all day on my sites, but now it looks like it is showing on the TB nearly every time I open a new window or refresh the page.

It’s kinda strange, my homepage got PR=3 and is 3 months old. Some of my internal site pages got PR=4 which is weird as usually the sub-pages and directories have less of a PR than the index page.

Well, another 3 months or so until we see another PR/BL export from Google (unless they change again). If you are not happy with the changes this update brought you, keep building links and promoting and hopefully next time you wont be disappointed.

How long does the update usually take?

During a Google update it is hard to actually “SEE” anything for a long period on Google or the Toolbar as results are spread through multiple data centers.

In order to have a good indication of what your PR and BL’s will be after the update it is best to use a tool that check multiple data centers on Google.

Keep in mind the tools are not always accurate and should be used as a guideline and not a definite check.

Here are some tools to check Google PR and BL on multiple DC’s (no particular order):

http://dl7.info/pagerank/index.php

http://seologs.com/pagerank/current-pagerank/currentpr-dc.html

http://www.seologs.com/pagerank/prv1/pagerank.html

http://www.wmtoolkit.net/seo-tools/pagerank-checker/

http://www.seochat.com/?go=1&option=com_seotools&tool=9&url=

http://www.mcdar.net/Q-check/datatool.asp

Once the update is finished, you will see the changes in your Google Toolbar and on Google by searching for your url with “link:” before the www.

Don’t forget to keep an eye on Matt Cutts blog, as he is usually the one to report on these things once the cat is out of the bag.