Google PageRanks are about to be updated. For change, rather than people seeing strange movements in their toolbars rankings and wondering, ‘what the heck’, Google, or at least Matt Cutts, have decided to make the announcement ahead of time.
The announcement was short and sweet:
Hey folks, I wanted to let you know that new toolbar PageRank values should become visible over the next few days. I’m expecting that also in the next few days that we’ll be expiring some older penalties on websites.
What is interesting is the last couple of words – expiring older penalties. If you have had previous penalties applied – and there is no clarification here – but I would think those that got hit late last year – will have those penalities removed.
If you did get a Google slap-down late last year and everything bounces back with this update – let us know. It would be interesting to see which penalties get expired.
Over the next few days you may notice your page rank bounce around a little as the different data centers release the new rankings – btw – this is really just a little PageRank update – nothing serious and no major change to the algorithms.
With the Google buying Digg debate that has been raging, I have to wonder if Matt Cutts has released this info to take the focus of that issue – particularly since he added in the comments section:
I figured the SEO industry could use something to discuss, so I thought I’d give people a heads-up about the toolbar PageRanks.
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Nope, they didn’t dop anything for the slaps from last year. John Chow went down to a pr3 and I am down now as well instead of moving up.
mine gain PR3 but one of my blog was penalized to PR0
I didn’t see any changes on my main pages but did see sub pages move up finally. However I’m thinking that the data is still pretty old. I’ve got a lot of pages not showing any PR at all and they are 4-5 months old. They are indexed but show no PR. I’ve got a lot of incoming links so I would think the PR would spread out a bit.
Phil