Google PageRank Update

[theseoconsultant]

For all you SEO professionals and enthusiasts alike; there has been a reported Google PR update: https://twitter.com/#!/search/pagerank & http://www.seroundtable.com/pagerank-update-may12-15097.html

 

[AlexBailey]

Thanks for the update!

 

[helloworld]

Yep noticed my main site is now pr 3 instead of 2 which is good! Looking forward to finishing my new design, should get another boost with about 10x the content

 

[theseoconsultant]

Did anyone else receive any "rewards" from the big G?

My site jumped from a PR0 to a PR3 (12 weeks old) and had very minor work done to it.

A client of mine jumped to a PR7 - very happy with that!

 

[DavidL]

Few jumps around for me. Unfortunately one PR6 moved to a 3 and another PR6 moved to a 5 (although how the hell the first one was ever a PR6 is beyond me - had a weak-ass backlink profile as far as I could see!)

 

[theseoconsultant]

My client mentioned above managed to take on a couple of government contracts in and around the Sydney area; backlinks from those websites are a mint! Being a .gov.au and all..

 

[James]

Yeah few up and down, don't really worry about PR too much like I did 5 years ago, still an ok metric for crawl rate and overall page evaluation on the fly. But I tend to mix it up with various metrics these days.

Yeah if you have .gov/ .EDU even .MIL contracts you can make some good acquisitions, even if you don't you can come up with a strategy to acquire these high level target links, but its not easy takes a lot of back and forth.

 

[vilsonkarl]

ya i agree with James that PR is nothing with SEO now..it is DEAD.

 

[theseoconsultant]

I'm not saying that PR is as good as what it was 2+ years ago. However it's a great way to measure a websites authority with Google.

In all honesty, I still use PR as a factor with building links, but it's obvious that PR is not as important as what it was.

 

[DavidL]

I'm not saying that PR is as good as what it was 2+ years ago. However it's a great way to measure a websites authority with Google.

In all honesty, I still use PR as a factor with building links, but it's obvious that PR is not as important as what it was.

Yeah I agree - certainly shouldn't be dismissed. Show me a PR8 that isn't a kick-ass authoritative site or a PR0 that is a authoritative site.

BTW if anyone has a few hundred (or thousand) sites they want to run a PR check on, PM me and I can put it through a tool i have and get results back in a few mins.

 

[James]

Didn't say PR wasn't still a decent way to look at authority on the fly, but in the overall scheme of things I wouldn't limit myself just to PR. But as I said 5 years ago people were more concerned with PR, people use to go on about it all day.

 

[seolyka2]

I also don't worry much about PR because it's not as important as what it was. Though when building links, I still consider it along with other factors such as domain authority, content quality, the relevancy of the page, how the site/page is optimised, the quality and quantity of the outbound links of the page etc.