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Google PageRank Update in November 2011

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Exactly 3 months after the update in August, Google PageRank has been updated again today on November 08, 2011. The update has eliminated all recent doubts that Google PageRank could be killed in the near future. I imagined about the death of Google PageRank but it won’t happen, it was just an update in the URL to query PageRank. Therefore, I write this post to notify all bloggers about the PR update and the new PR of my site.

Higher Pagerank for TechWalls

The update has brought good news for TechWalls as the 8-month-old blog keeps increasing in the rank. It had PR2 after the August update and now the number has turned to PR3. I am very happy as this is the highest PageRank I’ve ever had for all my blogs, it must prove that I am on the right track in developing the tech blog.

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Although the PageRank is not as important as it was a few years ago, this is still a big encouragement for me at the moment. For the last week, my blog has been affected by the Google’s freshness update and the number of pageviews has dropped to about 2,400 views each day. I was a little disappointed after losing some important keywords on Google’s SERPs, however, the increase in PR shows that Google doesn’t downgrade my site and I still have many chances to get higher ranking for those keywords.

Apart from TechWalls, I own about 9 other websites including very new ones. It’s great as most of them have PR1 and PR2 now although I didn’t spend much time on building links and improving search engine ranking. Some bloggers even claimed that their 2-week-old blogs could have PR3 without any works, the situation happened to my blog once but that blog’s PR has decreased to PR0 now, I guess it is just a bug or mistake from Google and they will fix it soon.

Benefits of High PageRank

I often complain about the accuracy of Google PR in evaluating a website. Having said that, I can’t deny the importance of the green bar as most advertisers still consider it as one of the most important metric in offering prices for ad slots. Besides, I have sold 2 websites on Flippa and realized that it is very difficult to sell PR0 websites whereas higher PR websites could be sold much easier. It seems like buyers still look at the rank to determine if this is an established website or not.

Therefore, I can sure that my revenue from this blog won’t be affected even when the traffic could be lower than last month due to the Google’s algorithm update. The PR update has really become my savior this time and thanks Google for that.

Have you seen the PageRank update on your website? Let us know what’s your new PageRanks and how it will increase your revenue.

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Comments

  1. Michael Aulia @CravingTech.com says

    Congrats for the PR3! It’s definitely not easy and especially yours is only 8 month old! My PR doesn’t seem to change (still in PR4) but I’m happy compared to having it lowered heh heh

    • Tuan Do says

      Thanks Michael.
      It appears to be very difficult to get to PR5. Going from PR2 to PR3 is absolutely easier than from PR4 to PR5. I’ve seen you keep the PR4 in the last 2 updates, maybe you need a few more inbound links and the number will go up next time.

      Anyways, congrats for not having lower PR. :)

  2. ball valves says

    Our PR went up to PR5 just from a PR4 – great update, thanks for sharing the news.

  3. Don says

    My PR went from PR0 to PR3! I was surprised this morning when i noticed it. And my site is only less than a year old! Alot of my inner pages got PR1 as well.

    What does this mean for me now, I’m already ranking #2 on google for my main KW. You said this should help with traffic, can you explain how? Im really excited that my site is now a PR3 and has some trust.

  4. TumuTanzi says

    My pr is still 3, no any changes. and my site has been accepted by dmoz, it is a good news for me.

    • Tuan Do says

      Wow, that’s awesome. Congrats, mate. I suggested my URL a long time ago but it hasn’t been listed yet. Do you need to do anything else?

  5. B.Patra says

    Congrats Tuan Do.

    Yes, PR update happened today, I can see my website PR has updated from PR1 to PR2

  6. Diolt says

    I noticed it is just a internal page rank and a minor update. No change for my websites

  7. Sol says

    I get gooood result from the update today from pr3 to pr 4 and pr 1 to pr 5 yessss

  9. Liz Money Web says

    Such a good news. I’m wondering how much I can sell my website if it’s PR1. Do you have tips in selling sites in Flippa? Thanks!

    • Tuan Do says

      It depends, I’m going to sell one of my PR1 site for $500. If your site has good potential, you can even sell it for much higher price.

    • HIgh PR Backlinks says

      It would be difficult if it has no revenue.
      It would be much easier to sell a site with revenue, even if it is just making a few bugs each months.

  10. Jenn @ Harmonic Mama says

    Mine dropped from PR3 to PR2 even though I’m getting more traffic than ever.

    • Tuan Do says

      Yes Jenn, the Google PR has nothing to do with the ranking and traffic to your site as well. You shouldn’t worry because traffic is much more important than the number.

  11. Aadil says

    This page rank update is only for few sites as my few of the websites have got effect of new PR Update but some didnt..

    • Tuan Do says

      Hi Aadil,
      I think this is a major update because I can see new PR on my sites and most other sites as well. You couldn’t see PR update on some of your sites possibly because they didn’t change at all.

  13. Manuel Garcia says

    Thanks for the news. I just look for my new pagerank since my blog is 4months old and luckily my blog now is PR4 in just 4months. Anyway, thanks for the updates :)

  14. SEOOrlando says

    PR is indeed still important for many reasons. The number of pages of your site that Google will crawl is directly proportional to your PR.

  15. David @ seo professional says

    Congratulations on the PR boost. I was very pleased to see that a couple of my sites got a nice PageRank lift, and a new blog that I have out of the gate already has PR2. You are right that PR does not mean very much in substantial terms (such as SERP rankings), but Google PR and to a lesser extent Alexa Ranking are the two easy metrics that people can use to visualize the strength of your website.

    • Tuan Do says

      Thanks David,
      You are right, Alexa and Google ranking must be the first metrics that all people will look at to evaluate a website. It will take a long time to change the thought.
      Congrats on your success with PR, I can see your site has PR4 now. :)

  16. Bella says

    Hi , I was impressed as you are, but in my case I was jumping up and down, because my blog went from a PR 0 to a PR 3 , and it is just 3 months old. So today I discovered that Google love blogs that talk about opensource, even better if you are promoting them and trying to help the community. I think everyone should include reviews of opensource software in their blogs, the community is huge and they love to help each other.

    • Tuan Do says

      Thanks for your tips, Bella. What a pity because my blog didn’t focus on opensource softwares, I will give it a try for sure.
      Congrats for your PR increase. :)

    • David @ seo professional says

      Congrats Bella. My PR2 blog is first posted on September 19, with just 6 posts so far, and aside from some social bookmarking, a couple blog carnivals and occasionally using that as my URL in blog comment, I really have not done any promotion. Feels good, doesn’t it?

  17. Buy youtube views says

    I had pr 6 for my site… PR6 and now pr 3.. what happened.. damn..

  18. Liz Money Web says

    I better sign up with Flippa then to have some of my sites appraised. :)

  19. Emily says

    Sad! mine went from 3 to 2.. Very painful. I’ve always been on 3 until now :(

  21. George Fuller says

    Holly Cow.. are you serious? PR6 to PR3? that’s a lot of PR decrease.. but it happened to my site also.. From pr 4 to pr 3.. I hope the update is still on going.. but my mind plays if I fail on my site. but to be honest I used to link build quality post, quality links, and quality content only.. I’m still wondering why it Drop to 3.. BTW congrats to those site that increases their PR.

  22. Shiva @ Blogging Tips says

    Hey Tuan, congrats on your Pagerank update, I to got to PR4 from PR3. Best of luck for future PR updates :)

    • Tuan Do says

      Thanks Shiva.
      Great to see Google still love our blogs. I will try to catch netchunks in the next update.
      Keep rocking! :)

  23. NuBrilliance Review says

    This is one of my many websites that have been affected in a very positive way by the Google PageRank Update.

    I am now at a PageRank 5 wohoo!!

  24. Solicitor says

    I have noticed PR update at my all legal websites .
    I wouldn’t say that it is so important – however most of visitors ( SEO oriented ones )
    still categorise website importance by their PR .

  25. Jam says

    I noticed the update today. No major changes to report. I agree that PR counts less than it did a while back.

  26. Make Money Blogging says

    Yes! Mine went from 0 to 1 in 3 months! I am very happy now :))

  27. David says

    Hey Tuan

    Stumbled across your blog when searching for Google Pagerank Update’. I was just curious to see if others had experienced changes to their PR as mine had rised dramatically when I checked today… PR1 to PR4

    I had done a lot of on page Seo about 6 months ago, but in the last month have focused on obtaining quality on theme links, with a real emphasis on selecting sites that have average PR but more importantly with few to none outbound links so I gain full benefit of their PR. what has been key was to go for quality rather than quality. I did submit my site to about 30 directories that I definitely knew would list, so I didn’t waste my time.

    I would say I owe much of my success to SeoMoz – I signed up for about 5 months just to use their tools, now I just revisit their blog and follow them on twitter for updates.

    Keep up the blogging

  28. jacouh says

    Very Interesting discovery of new Google update.

    My site is still PR3 since years. One of sites had PR5 for somes days but dropped down to PR3 now.

    When would be the next update ? as my predictive PR is 4.89 according to seomastering.

  30. Html5 Conversion says

    Google PR is definately not dead, I think it gives more of an indication of whether a site has quality content or not than say social media, ie. tweets or likes.

  32. VCAdirect.nl says

    Don´t push your luck immediately. There will be some tweaking in the coming couple of days with the PR. I saw that with our website we had a PR 5 and 6 for a lot af pages but after a while this were degraded to PR 4.

  33. Mahendra says

    I was so much excited about PR update but its not beneficial for me as my PR is same as it was before

  34. Technomela says

    I had a new blog which I had started in September after the page rank update it has moved to PR1 which is the first time as I have 5 other websites which has not movement still. Lets hope they do in few months.

  35. prateek says

    August was the most painful month. My pr went from 3 to 1 directly in aug, in next 10 days it was 2 and its still 2.. my blog is 3 yrs old, so again u can imagine the number of inbound links i have.. they are pretty good. God knows how its gonna be up again..

  37. PrIyAnGsHu @ PC Tricks says

    Hi Tuan , Congrats for getting PR 3 . This update brought PR 2 for my blog , which is really a good sign for a 5 months old blog !