For all you little green bar addicts… a Google PageRank update!
Christmas came early for the millions of Google PageRank (PR) addicted webmasters out there!
Somewhat unexpectedly, Google toolbar pagerank (what is actually shown publicly) updated on November 7th, 2011. Many are rejoicing in the streets because there is now some quantifiable metric associated with all the hard work that’s put into marketing your website! For others, a rather grim day and the realization that Google can giveth and taketh at any point.
I’m pleased that we are exactly where we usually are, a strong PR5 with all sub-pages at PR4, even many of the blog posts are PR3-4… which is where a 10 yr old site SHOULD be. We actually were a PR7 at one point when there was 2 dmoz listings for recycled-traffic, somehow they got removed, bastards… Anyway, I await the comment spam to get more aggressive. Although, BadBehavior and captcha combined have really made most of the comment spam go away. But, there’s still a few pesky Russian IP’s that always slip through GRRRRRRRRRRRRR.
All the PR transfer happened pretty nicely on this site because I spent the time making proper 301 redirects to the new pages and got rid of the “www” prefix so all PR is now consolidated to the root domain without prefix. Even though PR means nothing more to me than something to look at, it still gives me that warm fuzzy feeling inside!!! It may not mean much to the ranking algorithm, but it’s still a powerful internet monetization variable.
When it comes to ranking right now, the most powerful attribute I’m seeing is AGE OF DOMAIN. I have a few 10+ yr old domains that are dominating rankings with only a handful of links.
How did you all do?
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I’m concerned if the rankings go down not if they go up. I did so-so. Went from 2 to 3.
I noticed a jump in serps the same day as the PR update too, not sure if its coincidence or if there was an algorithm update to go with it… PR aside, I had some old domains jump up a few spots but still have low PR1-2′s.