PR Update Feb. 2006
Well, I’ve gone just about as long as I dare to go without mentioning the pagerank update that we are in the middle of. Let’s just say that its obvious that its not going the way it is supposed to. Either Google has made major changes to their algorithm and they’re in the middle of playing with it, or they’ve broken something and are trying to fix it.
Google has been dancing for more than a month now, but before Saturday it was dancing to Jagger’s tune. On Saturday it started showing new results for *some* sites. This has left many webmasters disappointed because it seems that for the most part only new sites or sites that previously had no pr are gaining anything. This is especially frustrating to the many webmasters who have put many hours into improving pr since the last update.
Some of the webmasters who have sites that have attained pr’s that they like will try to tell you that pr doesn’t really matter and that you are better off worrying about other things, but theirs no real doubt that pr does add value to your websites, plus it is a nice indication of how you are doing.
If the update is finalized the way things are showing right now: MLinkz would stay a 3, Proxert would remain a 0, MasterTheWeb would become a 2, StudentProxy would be a 4, and Display-Ip would become a 3. These results, if finalized, will completely disapoint me. I fully expect Mlinkz, Proxert, and StudentProxy to be 5s, and I expected MasterTheWeb and Display-Ip to be 4s. However, although this is completely inconclusive and just a general observation, my Adsense revenue has actually gone up since the PR dance started on Saturday.
