Google Updating???
Seems that the much awaited Google pagerank update may be underway. Check out your website, especially if it is new at the various datacenters-: here.
A good example includes WebmasterWorld.com, which is moving from a PR7 to a PR8. Many sites, although unstable and unpredictable at this time, appear to be holding onto current rankings. JOAB, for instance, is still a solid PR6. Amongst the early losers, there appears to be some downgrades on some well known, recently sold blogs from PR6s to PR5s, but nothing too drastic as of yet.
Bloggy Network can be pretty satisfied with the first glimpses of this update. For its homepage, an out of the box PR5, as well as for some its related sites, like Bloggy Hosting. And out of the box PR4s for its newest additions, like: Charities Blog, Travel Blog and Hollywood Blog.
So hang on to your undies and watch those toolbars and SERPs!
[...] And ironically, since my post last week wondering Google was updating, Matt Cutts (more slobbering here, Quimby….) has, for the first time ever, recently posted a clarification on Google’s policy towards pagerank. To quote a couple of segments relevant to our own questions at JOAB-: [...]
Jack of All Blogs » Blog Archive » Tiger In the Tale said this on October 9, 2006 10:13 am