I am happy to report that I won a nice fat jackpot in Vegas, $1400 from one spin on the slot machine with my last $20! Was planning to just take that $20 home and then my son said just play it, what the heck you got to lose, and bam, hit 4 wilds on the Wizard of Oz slots! And for those of you who remember my last trip to Vegas you know that dang machine owed me, plus it was my birthday trip so I guess my luck was good - Happy Birthday To Me!!
And then when I got back home last night I noticed there has been another Google Page Rank update, which was another nice surprise as several of my sites went up from PR2 to PR3 and they are all money sites. This blog stays a PR3 because I have not been doing any manual link building, been busy focusing on my money sites.
One of my sites went from PR1 to PR0, have no idea why, have to do some checking.
Remember that PR is all about link building and there is about 2-3 months till the next update to get those backlinks up and running.
Congrats to Matt for getting his PR4 back on Sacramento Weddings!
How did you guys do on the PR update?
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Wow, congrats on the $1,400 Jackpot, JR! That was $20 well spent.
My work from home site finally went from a long standing PR 2 to a PR 3. I’m very pleased.
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@Alan
Congratulations on that Alan, nice work!
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@JR, Thanks! You’re right, it’s all about link building, and I’ve been doing a lot of that.
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QJR: congratulations on your good fortune, and thank you for the link love!
@Matt
You are very welcome!
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Glad I’m subscribed to your blog, JR…I didn’t even KNOW there was a Google PR update! lol But I was happy to see that all of my sites went up 1 rank; i.e. I had one that was at 0, went to1. One at 1, went to 2 and one at 2 that went to 3.
Happy Camper!
@Eunice
Very Cool
Hey way to go with your winnings. Hope you did something fun with the money. My site went from a 1 to a 2 and another from 0 to 1. I really need to spend more time with a lonking strategy. Are your money sites Blogs – it’s suprprising that one of your sites went from 1 to 0 – Google can be confusing
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@Luca,
Half my money sites are BANS and some are blogs. I know Google can be a pisser, not sure why I lost the PR1, still looking into it. Congrats on your stats!
I had one go up and one go down.
All my websites stayed stagnant except one, which has attained a PR of 4. Good thing I don’t place a lot of credence in PR, or else I might be really irked.
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Congrats on both counts!
All three remained the same which is fine. I was quite pleased that 2outa3 I’ve been slackin’ on didn’t take a dip.
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My blog is upgraded from PR2 to PR3 too! I was surprised to see that actually Google did a Pagerank update in just a month, it was too fast.
Anyway, congrats on your other money sites too!
Regards,
Lee
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@Make Money Online,
I know I was surprised as well, sometimes they will do them every 2 months instead of 3.
@JR,
Yea, I thought it will be July but I was surprised to see the updated. My next target is getting PR4 on the next PR updates, perhaps July?
Regards,
Lee
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@Lee
I would guess August, at least I would hope so, gives more time to build those links
@JR,
Now no one knows how long will Google update our PR, it’s inconsistent. Haha, I’m working hard to build backlinks, I hope to see PR4 in my green bar on next PR updates. I wish you luck too JR.
Regards,
Lee
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@Lee
Thank you, you too!
Congrats on all the improvements (and the $1400 winnings).
I don’t know why but my 1½ month old blog went from a PR (nothing) to a PR4 and I have done very little linkbuilding. But I’m not one to complain
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@Mikael
That’s pretty much like hitting the jackpot
@JR, Well… even though it is nice I don’t pay that much attention to it. I’m more interested in the amount of visitors coming from the SE
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@Mikael
You are totally right about that, rank is all that really counts, and as we all know many times PR0 will outrank higher PR sites, it’s all about the links!
@JR, but as an “online geek” an increase in PR still calls for a little celebration
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@Mikael,
Of course!
I went from n/a to 0! I guess that’s what you get on a new domain. Time in the sandbox is fun.
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Alan its very nice work keep it up and Congratulations and best of luck of future.
I have heard that google does this often. i don’t follow it…it would absolutely drive me crazy!
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My blog was at PR 0 last week when the update first happened. Now today it’s a PR 2. A very pleasant surprise to say the least.
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I didn’t get much PR movement over my sites this time round, admittedly my linkbuilding has been pretty slow since the last one.
Luckily no drops in PR, and one or two small increases.
Rgds,
Rik
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pr updates become more and more often lately. however, one my sites dropped from pr3 to pr2 and two years ago was pr5. hope you all are doing better.
Congrats on winning big in Vegas, nice!
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@Dave
Thanks, it was pretty cool!
Not just by luck that the prize but also the opportunity to visit Las Vegas, a city that I would love to know.
In my case the latest update of PR has been negative, some of my sites have lost PR and I am very sad.
Hmm..well i don’t know about you guys but PR hasn’t updated for any of my sites. Nothing lower and nothing higher…
@James
LOL, that’s for sure!
My website also got PR from 0 to 2 When May 2009 Google PR update Took Place. I am looking forward to benefit from next Update.
Sohaib
I noticed a strange effect of the May update.
For some sites it dropped but the traffic itself from Google grew up. Other site’s PR got higher but the traffic from Google got smaller.
Something strange happens …
@Dennis
That is strange
I’m glad to see yours went up. Mine went from PR2 back down to PR1 even though my links have probably triple, but then 2 days later jumped back up to PR3, and then a few days later back down to PR2. So I guess I’m still a PR2. I wish google would make up its mind.
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@Jared
LOL, don’t we all, especially with SERP positions.
Happy belated birthday to you JR! Glad you won jackpot.. Not many people come out winning though, so you must be really lucky =)
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@Ben Pei
Thanks!