Apr 30 2008
Google PR April Update
It is pretty certain that the next Page Rank update is going on. Many PR tools are buzzing with new numbers to excite the masses of webmaster. All the webmaster forums are pumping threads and threads about the current PR update.
I do not claim to have inside knowledge but I do believe Google has changed a few things in their algorithm again. I do not rely heavily on the PR number but it is a good measure of how well a webmaster has done when it comes to link building. I spent a good bit of energy and money to build links for this site. As of now, we have went from PR0 to PR2. This is much lower than I expected for all the back links that I have acquired. I have other blogs which are higher with a lot less links. I also think my links to this site were higher quality than the ones for the other blogs. This proves one thing, you can not figure out Google because their algorithm remains a secret.
Overall, some of my blogs were up and down. Some regained the lost PR from the last update and some remain the same and one loss ranking. This means nothing in the matter of traffic, my traffic has slowly increased over the last two months and I look forward to a bigger jump in the months.
How did your sites do? How important do you think PR is in the whole scheme of things? Please share you thoughts by leaving a comment.
Google is something else. I agree that they change all the time. As far as pr is concerned, I wouldn’t focus to much on it. I have found that many of my websites have loss pr but have gained unique traffic from the major search engines. I’ve studied a lot into SEO but I have found that many of my efforts have had to change because of google. With many websites trying to spam google. Google has pentilized some good websites that used some old basic SEO Techniques. I found this blog by a submission to one of my directories and I will be checking in often.
Thanks Duane for the nice comment. I hope to hear more from you.