After 6 months Google are finally in the process of updating the visible stats of websites PageRank. This is the longest wait between updates since Google started.
This is good news for those with new blogs who missed the last update (including this one) as you will probably get a PR today or in the next few days however many of you will be disappointed to see that your PR has dropped. BloggingTips has achieved a PR4 however several of my other sites have had their PR dropped by 2 or even 3 points.
As has been pointed out by a lot of bloggers recently, these PageRank penalties could be a blessing in disguise as it means less emphasis on the rank which will remind everyone they should be concentrating on blogging! However, a lot of ad agencies are still using PR as a major factor to determine ad rates so whilst I agree with the above, I also know that this update will be very important for a lot of bloggers.
Thanks to Mani, Monika, Etienne and Elina for bringing this to my attention in yesterday’s post (and Ryan who emailed me about it).
So what PageRank did you all get?
PR 4 here.
My blog dropped from PR5 to PR4. Obviously penalised (or Google have changed how PageRank is calculated) because I have a hell of a lot more quality links coming in to my blog compared to the last update.
Most of my other sites stayed the same (PR5), although one site I launched between the updates went from zero to four, which is what I expected.
Jame – I think what's most likely is that the blogs which have been linking to you have had their PR reduced therefore the PR they are passing to your blog is less
Good thinking Batman! That never crossed my mind, but it makes perfect sense.
I went from a PR0 to a PR2. I was hoping for at least a PR3, but 2 is better than nothing
Congratulations Kevin! My blog has got a PR4 too.
some of my websites have gained more then +3 PR
My personal website went from 0 to 3 !
I have got a PR5 for me new blog which is nearly 3 months. Im happy about it.
And its sad blogging tips got 4 when it was expected to get 6. 
My mommy blog dropped from PR4 to PR2. I'm soooo depressed.
On the other hand, my make money blog went from PR0 to PR3. Guess in a way, it balances out. Problogger claims that Google is penalizing us for selling links on our sites. Not that I am willing to take down my text links (unless it is the advertiser's request), but I would like to know your opinion about this.
Huh. I thought that the whole page rank thing was history, thanks for the info!
Thank you Kevin for the mention.
My blog went from 0-3 and a new one which is a JV blog of mine went from 0-2 in 40 days. I'm quite happy with that.
Monika
My 25 days old blog went from PR0 to PR4. It was just as I expected. I am not excited about it just because I dont place a lot of emphasis to it.
It came and go. Although it gave me a PR4, it is nothing that is worth the celebration for me, there are too many PR4s out there.
Elina – Well we are now in the situation where we know that selling text links can hurt our rankings so the decision is up to the owner.
As I understand Google did it in two batches, I guess the first one was manual updates and the second is more or less automated. My blog got from PR3 to PR4 with the 2nd manual update.
Kevin congrats with PR4!Keep up the good work!
I agree with Arstan, i also saw a two phase thing! bought a domain in june, went PR0 in August, and now is PR3,…. though inside pages have dropped from PR0 to PR-1 … so just not happy.
My http://www.typeamom.net site went from a zero to a PR4 on the homepage, so I was pretty pleased. It is new, and this was the first rank update since it launched. Luckily, none of my other older sites took a hit at all. Whew!
PR have not changed at all for me. Also, I don't tend to place that much emphasis on PR anyway, so makes little difference eitherway…
After 6 months my PR is the same as before which I don't understand because I did a lot of linkbuidling in this period.
After a lot of months my pagerank didnot increase at all. So I don't know why not?
My pagerank increased at the moment I din't work on it. If it was I would like to prefer some other good linkinig factors for increasing it. Still it will be green and better I hope.
a lot of months my pagerank didnot change at all. So I don’t know why not?
pagerank increased at the moment I din’t work on it. If it was I would like to prefer some other good linkinig factors for increasing it. Still it will be green and better I hope.