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Andy Beard - Internet Business Systems Discussion: Google Toolbar PageRank Fluctuations (Round 4)

  • Mike · 2 years ago
    I'm no Nostradamus but I reckon visible PR will not be here Jan 1. In addition I will say that the next round of paid link/sponsored post/hell we just don't like you (delete where applicable) penalties will be applied in January and these will be serious penalties - drops from the SERPs.

    We'll wait and see. I must admit that my F5 button took a pounding earlier today when I hit Digpagerank after Court's post and then I went off to do something more productive. Like watching my fingernails grow.
  • Mike · 2 years ago
    I'm no Nostradamus but I reckon visible PR will not be here Jan 1. In addition I will say that the next round of paid link/sponsored post/hell we just don't like you (delete where applicable) penalties will be applied in January and these will be serious penalties - drops from the SERPs.

    We'll wait and see. I must admit that my F5 button took a pounding earlier today when I hit Digpagerank after Court's post and then I went off to do something more productive. Like watching my fingernails grow.
  • lars_christian · 2 years ago
    None of the tools I've been using to check PageRank are working at the moment, which is somewhat weird. I've seen some datacenters unreachable before, but never experienced that none of them are giving out any results.

    Smells like something big is cooking - Or at least it's fun to speculate about it ;)
  • lars_christian · 2 years ago
    None of the tools I've been using to check PageRank are working at the moment, which is somewhat weird. I've seen some datacenters unreachable before, but never experienced that none of them are giving out any results.

    Smells like something big is cooking - Or at least it's fun to speculate about it ;)
  • Antonio Dias · 2 years ago
    Andy,

    many of these pagerank tools are not working. I recall checking digpagerank while others were already off, so it might be temporary but I would not be surprised to hear that Google knocked them off.

    It seems it's only the TBPR for you :evilgrin:
  • Antonio Dias · 2 years ago
    Andy,

    many of these pagerank tools are not working. I recall checking digpagerank while others were already off, so it might be temporary but I would not be surprised to hear that Google knocked them off.

    It seems it's only the TBPR for you :evilgrin:
  • mblair · 2 years ago
    My toolbar is currently using 74.125.19.147 -- I didn't see that one on any of the lists at Digpagerank -- I wonder if they are blocking queries from Digpagerank or switching things up as to what datacenters resolve on purpose. I didn't see a way to include an IP of our choice at Digpagerank to test it.
  • mblair · 2 years ago
    My toolbar is currently using 74.125.19.147 -- I didn't see that one on any of the lists at Digpagerank -- I wonder if they are blocking queries from Digpagerank or switching things up as to what datacenters resolve on purpose. I didn't see a way to include an IP of our choice at Digpagerank to test it.
  • Grizzly · 2 years ago
    For what it's worth Statcounter has regained it's PR10 - they had added the no-follow after the last slap.
  • Grizzly · 2 years ago
    For what it's worth Statcounter has regained it's PR10 - they had added the no-follow after the last slap.
  • Michael VanDeMar · 2 years ago
    Andy (and everyone else)... just so you know, it is the tools that are not working, in the method they are using to poll for a particular datacenter's PageRank, not the datacenters themselves. I can manually hit a specific datacenter to see what PR it has for a given URL, and have done so with the ones that DigPageRank shows and they are actually working fine (except for the ones showing "OFF", which are just unreachable).
  • Michael VanDeMar · 2 years ago
    Andy (and everyone else)... just so you know, it is the tools that are not working, in the method they are using to poll for a particular datacenter's PageRank, not the datacenters themselves. I can manually hit a specific datacenter to see what PR it has for a given URL, and have done so with the ones that DigPageRank shows and they are actually working fine (except for the ones showing "OFF", which are just unreachable).
  • Brown Baron · 2 years ago
    I've been dropped to a 2 from 3. What's funny is that I don't sell text links. Oh before I forget, your link to searchengineguide seems to be missing an "a".
  • Brown Baron · 2 years ago
    I've been dropped to a 2 from 3. What's funny is that I don't sell text links. Oh before I forget, your link to searchengineguide seems to be missing an "a".
  • Michael Woo · 2 years ago
    Yeah it has hit some of my sites as well.. I tot I escaped their deathblade earlier as one of my site maintained as PR4, but it was soon reduced to PR2...

    I wonder what are they doing?
  • Michael Woo · 2 years ago
    Yeah it has hit some of my sites as well.. I tot I escaped their deathblade earlier as one of my site maintained as PR4, but it was soon reduced to PR2...

    I wonder what are they doing?
  • Frederrick Abrugart · 2 years ago
    My site seems to be holding on to its PR. Will have to wait and see. I guess all should follow the step taken by searchengineguide - Remove ad links from index page. Better still, I think its best not to have any outbound link from your home page.
  • Frederrick Abrugart · 2 years ago
    My site seems to be holding on to its PR. Will have to wait and see. I guess all should follow the step taken by searchengineguide - Remove ad links from index page. Better still, I think its best not to have any outbound link from your home page.
  • Chris Lodge · 2 years ago
    Yeah I went to a 5 after round three, but have now dropped to a 3.

    Couldn't care less anymore......

    On the plus side, more people are requesting private text links and reviews than before. Go figure Google :-)
  • Chris Lodge · 2 years ago
    Yeah I went to a 5 after round three, but have now dropped to a 3.

    Couldn't care less anymore......

    On the plus side, more people are requesting private text links and reviews than before. Go figure Google :-)
  • blm03 · 2 years ago
    Fox News also took a hit, but CNN went up. Figure that out.
  • Lisa · 2 years ago
    Fox News also took a hit, but CNN went up. Figure that out.
  • Patricia Skinner · 2 years ago
    I have four sites, all of them were PR 4 to start with. In round one, two of them went down to a PR 2, which I might have expected because I'm not actually using them--they do have some text but it's only minimal. The two I use, including my blog, so far have remained stable. Now I'm worried though, despite the fact that I've never bought or sold a link in my life.
  • Patricia Skinner · 2 years ago
    I have four sites, all of them were PR 4 to start with. In round one, two of them went down to a PR 2, which I might have expected because I'm not actually using them--they do have some text but it's only minimal. The two I use, including my blog, so far have remained stable. Now I'm worried though, despite the fact that I've never bought or sold a link in my life.
  • Jerad Kaliher · 2 years ago
    At least no one can say that the PR ride hasn't been fun. For all the talk about it becoming an irrelevant statistic, people sure do enjoy talking about it - and more enjoy reading.

    I'd be fascinated to read an official release by Google on their intentions for PR to see where they eventually want to go with it. It seems that most of the information seeping out of the Googleplex has been excuses.
  • Jerad Kaliher · 2 years ago
    At least no one can say that the PR ride hasn't been fun. For all the talk about it becoming an irrelevant statistic, people sure do enjoy talking about it - and more enjoy reading.

    I'd be fascinated to read an official release by Google on their intentions for PR to see where they eventually want to go with it. It seems that most of the information seeping out of the Googleplex has been excuses.
  • Brian Turner · 2 years ago
    I've got to admit, I don't think the PR downgrades has ever been a mainly manual process - I think it has been, and still is, an algorithmic process guided by human editing. But that's just my 2c. :)
  • Brian Turner · 2 years ago
    I've got to admit, I don't think the PR downgrades has ever been a mainly manual process - I think it has been, and still is, an algorithmic process guided by human editing. But that's just my 2c. :)
  • JLH · 2 years ago
    I was going to ask the designer of the oyoy.eu search engine tools why he thought it was still working, and others were having problems. But since he's a Googler now I didn't want to put him an awkward position of me asking a question he probably can't answer fully.
  • JLH · 2 years ago
    I was going to ask the designer of the oyoy.eu search engine tools why he thought it was still working, and others were having problems. But since he's a Googler now I didn't want to put him an awkward position of me asking a question he probably can't answer fully.
  • Backlink Checker · 2 years ago
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  • Althaf Ahmed · 2 years ago
    Yeah,

    It is back and working fine now. Even other PR sites are showing proper results.

    Al
  • Althaf Ahmed · 2 years ago
    Yeah,

    It is back and working fine now. Even other PR sites are showing proper results.

    Al
  • InvestorBlogger · 2 years ago
    Well, I'm getting a big fat zero right now... That's quite a slap if it is... But I'm not backing down on now.

    Kenneth
  • InvestorBlogger · 2 years ago
    Well, I'm getting a big fat zero right now... That's quite a slap if it is... But I'm not backing down on now.

    Kenneth