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All of my sites went up in rank. But I do have an off topic questions. Does the page rank of a site have an effect on the site it is linking to. For example, if a site with a page rank of 5 is linking to my site, does the page rank of 5 have an effect on the quality of the link, and therefore increase my rank in Google?

My blog went from PR3 to PR0 overnight - which is costing me money - and I'm MAD. I don't participate in linking schemes or do anything that Google would deem "illegal"... I have no earthly idea why they'd do this to me.

Weeks later it looks like it all is working out just fine, at least on my pages.  There was some confusion because of some reciprocal links I had on my blogs, but after cleaning them up a bit, and increasing the one way links it worked out to be better than it was before the shake, which is great.

Cheers,

Justin

Cruise To Cash

does google even bother with DMOZ anymore ?

Mine was down to 3 from 4 in the last, but back up to 4 in this one. It does seem to be loosing ground in many arenas.

Page rank uses a very different algorythm and is thus very different in each area. hence DMOZ and google have different PR values for same site. PR has nothing to do with the search results, which use a very different algorythm. PR is taken into account but the acual value of the PR is used in strange ways where calculus is applied to the numbers to obtain a limit. There are more than 1200 variables in googles algrythm, and these are applied using extreme mathematics that take all 1200 PLUS variables into account. most variables are interdependant which causes more confusion for web masters and SEO technitians. example: a)value of key words on page are used in page rank calculation b) page rank figures are used to calculate value of key words for site. c) value of key words for site are used to calculate value of key words on page. d) this then affects calculation in (a) this short piece is reiterayed untill the value reaches a limit. once the limit has been reached the value is then placed into other pieces of the algorythm where a very similar process is applied. in these calculations some items are given a positive value, and others are given a negative value. the advanced mathematics using calculus has many co-efficients and some values are squared, cubed, and raised to higher levels according to googles percieved importance of this value. if your site just so happens to have a negative value in the wrong area, it will reflect in your SERP's (Search Engine Results Pages) People especialy SEO professionals and their assitants often forget the size of the GOOGLE data base, and the number of online computers that GOOGLE uses to manipulate the SERP's through their extreme algorythm that uses very strange and ever so complicated mathematical equations with more than 1200 variables in a single equation. Then of course there is the thing of manual eddits which is hotly contested with much debate and counter debate.

I never really noticed the change because I just started to worry about pagerank recently. Im not worried. http://www.sample13.com

6 of my sites lost PR in the last update, i can't see what i did as all them used googles ads.

If google thinks your selling links they will give you a PR0 on the next update Worse If google thinks your selling links or buying links Google may give you the go to the end of the serp,s penalty and you will find your site on the last serp's page Google is going to be history soon it is now easy to knock down your competitors. Google will go to sh*t as the best site are remove by the worst. Reverse seo will soon be king just knock out the top sites to rank #1 give them the go to the end of the serps penalty Should us webmaster do a Google boycott day or week where we all remove adsense and use a different search engine and maybe promote a alternative search engine goole will lose millions a day if it goes far enough and will have to fix this problem

Google updated the PageRank scores in their directory and they are now higher than listed on the toolbar. A site of mine listed there is showing the same PageRank score (PR4) since they last updated their directory, while the toolbar is showing PR6. Was previously PR5 on the toolbar.

This was stated a while ago by matt cutts : they felt that people were obsessing and even monetizing PR values, so they warned that the toolbar PR would drift from their internal PR. Also the search results are not based strictly on PR at all. Many factors. Google said they felt that content should be the prime concern of webmasters and traffic should be the prime gauge of success. Not these retarded paid links markets based on PR and alexa rankings. I'm still trying to get my clients to stop obsessing over their fake alexa numbers.

I have a site that recently went from pr5 to pr0 and its linked to just two sites that are not ban because they still have page rank. it is difficult to explain to a client when a site you design and maintain suddenly drop like that

Our site offers advertising services, commercial & specialty printing, to the trade. We are an Advertising Agency for over 30 years and we do know how to do that. A word of advice. Don't depend solely on the capriciousness of search engines. Maintain a healthy 3-tier marketing strategy to drive targeted traffic to your site. Which means an advertisement & editorial mention in media your prospects are exposed to, a sales piece in your prospects hands and a follow up once a quarter for 6 quarters asking for their business. This works

It was my understanding that by the time the toolbar is updated, it's already out of date according to it's real PR

Yes, I agree with whatever is happening with websites pushing webmasters in lot of confusion. Since 13th Jan, many webmasters are seeing changes in their toolbar pagerank. My blog also got the Pagerank back after 1-2 months of being punished for hosting TLA ads. In this time period, there was no difference in the Google search engine traffic and I wondered how page rank affects the search engine results then. Was it just a trailer of what Google can do to webmasters or anything else? If there was no significant changes in search engine traffic, then why this PR dance on websites?

This site had a page ranking of one but it has a question mark.