Comments on: Google PR Update Today, Sure, But Also Old Penalties Dropped

By: intospain

intospain — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 10:43:51 +0000

We had a massive drop from 3 to 1, but like others have said it is the results that count and page rank is nothing more than a bar with no value to the general public, half of them don’t know what it is or have never seen it before. Results in the SERP’s are the measure of a website, and of course its users 😀

By: Otooo

Otooo — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 01:54:30 +0000

I didn’t gain any PR :(, even though I had like 800 backlinks
Although it went from PR N/A to PR0

By: Singapore SEO

Singapore SEO — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 08:07:35 +0000

Congrats on having your other site lifted off the penalty ban. Well, i guess it could be that your site has finished your 2 year sentence in the Google jail. Haha. Any way, an interesting note is that many sites have experienced PR drop during this most recent update.

By: SEOMichael

SEOMichael — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:10:25 +0000

DD, another great post, thanks for the heads up…I went to a PR4 with this one.

By: DazzlinDonna

DazzlinDonna — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 12:40:32 +0000

Follow the link listed above where Matt “assured” us. He gives official definitions for it all. All I was saying was that in ADDITION TO the data refresh back then, they must have ALSO applied some penalties…not that there is any such thing as a data refresh penalty.

By: Rajendra Prasad

Rajendra Prasad — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 12:31:51 +0000

A great news about google but can you define about “refresh”
panalaty???

thanks:)

By: Ankur

Ankur — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 18:27:53 +0000

Looks like sites with numerous backlinks from the same site (ie. forum sig links, site wide etc) got kicked down.

Overall, strong sites that i manage with years or authority, that have penalties (mostly forum sites) jumped up one number.

By: dakshika JAyathilaka

dakshika JAyathilaka — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 02:14:55 +0000

I also get updated on google PR. nice and thanks to inform us

By: JK Swopes

JK Swopes — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 23:13:11 +0000

Lot’s of people seem to have gotten excited about the PR updates. Some lost rank and others gained it for the first time.

Some were expecting more and some stayed the same. The mystery that is Google PageRank remains…how is it calculated! lol

By: Liam Delahunty

Liam Delahunty — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 16:34:08 +0000

Most of my sites dropped by one also. A site with an exclusion penalty remains out of the Google index. I did nothing wrong except the name is too much like Google and I think the penalty is purely based on that.

Regarding Matt’s comment I thought it was reasonably well established that the PR scale was logarithmic, however it remains unknown what the base is.