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Cutts Confirms Google Toolbar PR Update

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By · January 3, 2009 · 33 Comments

A week or so ago, some people noticed some updates to Google Toolbar PageRank scores. It was unconfirmed however if this was an official update. Matt Cutts eventually confirmed on Twitter that it was indeed a Google update.

Matt Cutts Tweet

Cutts later said on his blog, "In case you didn’t see where I confirmed it on Twitter, Google recently did a toolbar PageRank update. It’s pretty much done now. If you want more info, I’ve answered questions about PageRank and the Google Toolbar in the past."

People’s sites are going both up and down, but it is important to remember that the toolbar is "not an accurate indicator of how Google ranks or values a site," as Loren Baker notes at Search Engine Journal. Though it is still a factor.

Cutts also makes the bold prediction that this will be the last PageRank update of the year. Haha.

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  1. Is they Pagerank on the Google Toolbar the same as you can find, it you are using the webbased Pagerank Checkers?

  2. Next update…. 30th march 2009 :-)

  3. Ryge Stop, should be if the pagerank checker works correctly.

  4. It’s nice to come back from holidays and see most of my sites running at PageRank 3 …. thanks Google ;)

    A.

  5. Yes I can confirm that there has been an update to The page rank as my very own blog received its first page rank.

  6. yes indeed the Page rank has been added as my blog has received a new rank.

  7. I would love if google could give us news about an update, the expected dates or date range where an update is expected etc.

    Otherwise we will all be wondering…

  8. For those who don’t knowe, we were due a PR update anyway. What Matt actually means is that there has been an update to PR values – the update itself is scheduled and happens every couple of months.

  9. Well, I’m not PR hungry, but after this news, I did a check and I saw that my PR moved from 3 to 5, I hope it give more access after the hollydays.

  11. I noticed an increase in PR for most web properties… for this site I went from 0 to PR2… I started the site in December and its like 6 weeks old.

  12. Next update…. 30th march 2009 :-) !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    how you know when the next update ????????

  13. its all about the SERPs people

  14. Many thanks to Google.. my PR 0 now went up to PR 2… im feeling great.. thanks and more PR ahead

  15. Yup, it’s an update. Went from a 4, to a 3, to 4 again. Ah, the wonderful world that is Google..

    Robert – The Wholesale Guy

  16. Yes I’ve noticed that there was a pagerank update last week of December though it didn’t hit most of my sites, only 2 went up :-)

  17. Yes I see this pagerank update too. How long do these changes normally take?

  19. Thanks for the update Chris. We noticed this as well across many of our sites.

  20. It’s nice to come back from holidays and see most of my sites running at PageRank 4/3 …. thanks Google

  21. I spy with my little eye, something beginning with F. It’s a page rank move from 3 to 4, not too bad for a new year’s gift! Now if only the recession wasn’t taking a bite into software sales.

  22. Don’t know why – but my site gor degraded from PR5 -> PR4 :( :(

    Ryge – PR should be the same

  23. the webbased checkers I know of use the google toolbarquery (some just suck).

    the only time results can differ is when you use domain.com in stead of http://www.domain.com, the toolbar always returns the rank of the url in the address bar.

    I also had a question : I heard first Google update the ‘big’ domains and then in a second round update new domains and smaller domains, and inner pages, is that true ?

  24. my site has got a PR of 1 atlast. Hopw it will rise up by next update. Any one knows the frequency of PR updates by google? so when is the next expected?

  25. As an SEO Consultant myself, I tell people don’t worry about page rank. Sure it look good but it’s not needed to gain traffic or generate income. As long as you have content and your site is optimized, you’ll be fine. http://www.seo4searchengines.com

    • There are plenty of income sources where PR is plenty important from how much you make from adsense clicks to backlinks and paid postings.

  26. On Dec 31 I was a 0PR since my site was 3 months old or so.
    Jan 2nd it went to PR3 out of nowhere.

    Jan 3rd It was down to 2

    Why?

  28. I do not know if Google updates the pagerank, but I already has over 1 years with a PR4, every time Google does not put it more difficult to attract visitors to our site, Google wants all the web traffic for them, is not just be left to compete and I am trying to get by with Google Adsense.Pero really earn a pittance if you have it 5 to attract more visitors.

    Greetings.

  29. Miglin
    Reply

    It looks like Google are upto something today. The Google toolbar PR display is very intimitant and other tools which rely on Google PR are not working. Is any one else having problems?

  30. Hey guy

    “Next update…. 30th march”

    i am still looking for google update..is anyone find changes on their website PR or ranking…please share your exp here…

    thanks
    vishal

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