Comments on: November 2009 Google PR Update

By: JR

JR — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 07:33:40 +0000

I am not aware of any updates in December, sometimes Google does update sites at random times.

By: liderazgo

liderazgo — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 03:43:10 +0000

are u sure the update was by the end of november? i had several changes by the end of december and 2 o 3 webmasters said the same..
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By: Michelle Sterling@Summerlin real estate

Michelle Sterling@Summerlin real estate — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 14:45:57 +0000

PR is not important for your ranking? That’s new for me. I mean i know about how to increase your PR, but didn’t know its effects on search engine rankings.

By: JR

JR — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 22:59:42 +0000

@Alfred,
Are you still ranking in SERPS? Cause if you are who cares about PR?

By: Alfred

Alfred — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 22:24:13 +0000

hmmm my blog is almost 3 years old still now PR. Lost my PR3 2 years ago, guess it was because of TLA inlinks. After this months payment guess its time for it to go.
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By: JR

JR — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 04:44:56 +0000

@Michelle Mangen
Lol, thanks. Yes it is easy to not think of those things, it’s always good to link to your promotional material that links back to your site. The links back to your sites within those articles or other promotional material will lead the SE’s back to your site to crawl it, which is always good

By: Teknoloji haberleri

Teknoloji haberleri — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 21:59:43 +0000

And I always thought that PR is the most important thing for Google.
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By: Michelle Mangen@Your Virtual Assistant

Michelle Mangen@Your Virtual Assistant — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 17:48:09 +0000

JR – you rock – I had not thought of Digg/Mixx for my Ezine articles!
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By: JR

JR — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 16:06:44 +0000

@Michelle Mangen,
You definitely get links from both Digg and Mixx. Digg recently implemented all links to no follow, unless you’re story goes popular (then you get a do follow), and Mixx has always been no follow.

However, these are valuable links and have a lot of authority in Google’s eyes, always go for them. If you have a new site, getting a Mixx link to it causes super fast indexing as Google crawls their site a lot. Also, when your site is new and not ranking in SERPS, these links can get you some traffic.

Overall social bookmark links do not hold the biggest link juice, however, they are an important part of an overall link building strategy, and if your story goes big on Digg, then you get the do follow. A good idea is to Mixx and Digg any articles that you have written for article marketing as well.

By: Michelle Mangen@Your Virtual Assistant

Michelle Mangen@Your Virtual Assistant — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 19:51:47 +0000

Glad I saw the link to this post from Dennis’ site. I don’t know what my PR was before as I didn’t start checking it until after Google made their change. I’m at PR3. I’ve noticed I’ve been higher in SERP and have had more traffic as a direct result of having my posts tweeted & RT’d on Twitter. Particularly RetweetMeme seems to have an overall good impact on SERP (though not sure how as I haven’t researched it).

That being said I’d almost prefer to have some of my posts RT’d that way vs. through other available methods.

One thing I noticed recently was that although reportedly we don’t get backlinks from Mixx and Digg I saw a number of both on my site through Google Webmaster tools. So that leads me to the desire to find out if what I read/heard before is indeed true or not.

Any idea?
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By: Garden Netting

Garden Netting — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 16:40:36 +0000

Pagerank is just vanity – ignore it and concentrate on quality content updated regularly

By: Colleen@Kennewick Real Estate

Colleen@Kennewick Real Estate — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:56:18 +0000

I guess we fared well in the update as I did not notice a change in our pr. PR isn’t what it used to be, as Google seems to place much less emphasis on links these days.
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By: JR

JR — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:36:05 +0000

@Equipment Lease Calculator,
This is probably a result of the Caffeine Update they are working on, I do not believe it has been finalized yet.

By: Michael @ High PR Link Builders

Michael @ High PR Link Builders — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 19:11:37 +0000

I agree with you that too many people put too much emphasis on PageRank and not on the quality of a website. I have one site which is PR0 but yet I rank quite well for my targeted keywords. Funny enough, it used to be a PR3 but dropped to a PR0 with the latest update. Not sure why but I get more traffic now than ever. Go figure.

By: Dennis Edell

Dennis Edell — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 22:44:11 +0000

@Primus,

Oh that, you’re right. Google did say something about 100 max is preferred. I think it was just for the homepage though…including all the sidebar links.
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