Google Releases Toolbar PageRank Update

Google updates toolbar PageRank about four times a year. They updated it in November, and August before that. Now they’ve updated it again – the first update of 2013.

People started noticing the update on Monday. As usual, webmasters are taking to Twitter to express their comments on the ups and downs.

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Firda Beka
@firda

I’m a little surprised that my rarely updated blog still maintains a Google PageRank of 5, above some regularly updated blogs. Mind boggled.

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38 minutes ago via web · powered by @socialditto

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Sumesh P.
@sumesh

+100! RT @pxy: Oops.. my website pagerank has gone down to 2. Missing those good old 6/7 PR days. I’ll blame it all on Twitter & G+.

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1 hour ago via Polly · powered by @socialditto

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Fiona Barron
@Fiona_JMD

I just had a check on my Google Pagerank and my site scores a 1/10. I would love to get this higher – if you want… http://t.co/NuZmmHMI

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PCGamingWiki
@PCGamingWiki

Google Pagerank has gone from 3/10 to 4/10, nice! Also, our Alexa ranking keep rising, currently: 187766

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8 hours ago via TweetDeck · powered by @socialditto

It’s become pretty well known in the industry that toolbar PageRank is not the most helpful indication of how Google views a page, though actual PageRank is certainly still an important signal (Matt Cutts even referenced it in the latest Webmaster Help video).

As usual, here’s the obligatory Matt Cutts video discussing toolbar PageRank:

[via Search Engine Roundtable]