Google PR Update

I don’t trust on the PR. My site http://www.sharpgambler.com is online since August-September and PR was updated from 0 to 1, a few days ago. I expected to get more than that. There are a lot of sites that were updated from 0 to 4.

Looking at MarketLeap: http://www.marketleap.com/publinkpop/default.htm I have a lot of links for a page with PR 1. Doesn’t make sense to me. :unhappy:

Is the update complete? My site has PR for only 15 of the 18 data centers. Is this normal?

Hey f&p — how old is your site?

I use to think that it would take a month or so for new pages to see visible PR updated but that wasn’t so for this one. On one my sites, an interior page went from PR 0 to PR 4, and it was put up 2-3 weeks ago. Maybe because it is a new site. I really don’t know.

Pretty much the same for me :bigsmile:

Thanks for the tool Randy!

The serps seem to update constantly.

I’ve read in seo forums that they do update daily, but sometimes it doesn’t seem that way.
:crazy:

As far as PR goes, the way I’ve heard it is that the page rank you see on the google toolbar (the little green indicator) is never up-to-date, and whatever attempts you’ve made in the past 6 weeks or so won’t show up until the next update – in another 3 months.

There are online tools that give a more more accurate measure of a site’s link popularity, such as this one at Marketleap.com: http://www.marketleap.com/publinkpop/default.htm .

I can’t vouch for it’s accuracy, but it’s fun to play with. :1circling

It’s my understanding that the “displayed” PR is updated on a quarterly basis. How often are the serps updated? Daily?

One thing to keep in mind is that the only thing that’s updating right now is ‘visible’ PR; Google has a running PR on their backend that affects your SERP’s. They’re not making it visible or current through their toolbar for the same reason they’re not showing accurate backlinks: to block attempts to manipulate their SERP’s.

i.e., just because the toolbar says a site has a PR of 1 doesn’t mean that the site has a PR of 1 right now. It means it had a PR of 1 last time Google updated their display.

Boo! Mine went down too, after working to improve, this is what I get- screw you Google! lol :flamer:

The thing to remember is that, at least in my opinion, PR doesn’t matter – it’s the SERPS that count! I’ve found that the only time my PR ever meant anything was when I tried to get links. I’ve pretty much been ignoring the PR of sites that want to link to me – I’m going after the serps, not the PR.

That’s how I see it, too.

I fully expected a higher PR this update, but remained the same. I’m happy enough that my interior pages are gaining PR. I lost a lot of interior pr when I made all my interior – and most of my incoming – links point to my url WITH the “www”.

Last update my rank was evenly split between: http:myurl.com and htp://www.myurl.com. Both versions had a PR of 5. I lost one pr rank for the “www”-less url, but I imagine in the months to come it will transfer to my “www” url.

(I could obviously use some better terminology than “www” and “www”-less LoL)

The thing to remember is that, at least in my opinion, PR doesn’t matter – it’s the SERPS that count! I’ve found that the only time my PR ever meant anything was when I tried to get links. I’ve pretty much been ignoring the PR of sites that want to link to me – I’m going after the serps, not the PR.

It’s all fun when there’s an update, though – just another stat in this big game of “Sim Website”. :1circling