Google Is Kick Starting 2010 with a PageRank Update

It looks like Google used the new year’s eve to update the nominal PageRank around the web. My established websites didn’t experience any fluctuation, but I noticed that many of my recently created niche websites gained PageRank.

Most of them went from PR0 to PR2. I was surprised to see one of them jumping from PR0 to PR4 though, especially because the site is less than six months old.

What about you, did you notice any changes?

Finally, it looks like the frequency of the updates is indeed increasing. The last one was just two months ago (late in October), so keep an eye for the next one around March.




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57 Responses to “Google Is Kick Starting 2010 with a PageRank Update”
GetBrowser on January 1st, 2010 8:24 am My blog has jumped from 3 to 4.^_^

Gloson on January 1st, 2010 8:56 am Thanks for notifying us, Daniel.

Well, the pagerank of my blog, Gloson Blog, is still 4. I guess I need to post more quality articles frequently, which is one of my goals for 2010. LOL

Chris Peterson on January 1st, 2010 9:19 am Changing page rank in Google now day’s common fact. I’ve also notice few of my website’s rank increase 1 to 3.

If we will do off page and on page according to Google page ranks algorithm then definitely we achieved high page rank

mohsin on January 1st, 2010 9:20 am yes, one of my competitor’s site went from PR 0 to PR 6 and it is just 2 months old, I am still amazed at their efforts. They seem to be a worthy opponent

Daniel Scocco on January 1st, 2010 9:35 am @Chris, keep in mind on-page optimization factors like meta tags, h1 tags, keyword density and so on do not affect your PageRank.

Sudeep on January 1st, 2010 9:54 am No change with mine .. wow would love to have an slight increase in page rank.
Thanks for the update

Cakephp Developer on January 1st, 2010 10:02 am Thanks for sharing this.. for log time i was looking for same information and google has started ranking updates but my index page is not yet ranked up..

Tom - StandOutBlogger.com on January 1st, 2010 10:04 am I got a lot of my new logs to PR2, with one getting a PR1. Not a bad results since they are all only 2-3months old.

Sherri Kruger on January 1st, 2010 10:22 am I was shocked to see my newest site jump from PR0 to PR4 – it’s only 3 months old. My other blog remained unchanged at 4. Happy New Year!

Henri @ Wake Up Cloud on January 1st, 2010 10:30 am My new blog, which is around 4 weeks old went from PR0 to PR4. I have been guest posting a lot and commenting. It was a pleasant surprise!

Patrik on January 1st, 2010 11:01 am I checked my pagrank after reading your post and noticed runnertalk.net had gone from 2 to 3 even though I don’t have any content on the site at the moment.

Babak on January 1st, 2010 11:04 am yeah..I was quite amazed too
My blog is PR6 now

Keith Davis on January 1st, 2010 12:33 pm Hi Daniel
Noticed yesterday that I’d gone from 2 to 3.
Fairly new site, not much content, but I’ve worked hard on links.

@Patrik – as you say there is no content, well very little content, on your site, but do you have a good number of links?
I guess that lots of bloggeres who visit Daily Blog Tips know a fair bit about links….

Or is pagerank getting easier?

Kang Yudiono on January 1st, 2010 1:14 pm My blog jumped from PR 2 to PR 3.
It is a good motivation in new year for me

Fatin Pauzi on January 1st, 2010 1:29 pm Wow, PR 0 to PR 4? That’s really amazing. I’ve never experience that. Hope I could experience it one day.

I’ve checked my blog PR. I got PR 0 to PR 1. Before this, it’s so hard to increase PR at my blog but after I follow your way which is update blog for 1-2 articles per day, my PR got increase. Thanks for sharing your method of blogging previously. I really appreciate it.

Vlatko on January 1st, 2010 1:43 pm I got PR 5 but that is nothing in comparison to the fact that I got listed in DMOZ.com and directory.google.com.

In other words you can’t get more authority than that. After seeing this I submitted my site to dir.yahoo.com.

Long story short, it was amazing ending of 2009. I expect 2010 to be even more beneficial.

Cheers.

Dad of Divas on January 1st, 2010 1:45 pm Mine stayed at a 4… how does one go up from here?

AnastasiaCarroll on January 1st, 2010 1:54 pm That’s right. My both blogs’ reached 3 on Dec 31 that’s was great

Mike Crimmins on January 1st, 2010 1:59 pm My blog is still at a Page 3, hoping to see an increase but no dice. However, a lot of the older articles now have 1 and 2’s which is new and I’ll take that.

Cammy@TippyToeDiet on January 1st, 2010 2:05 pm Woo-hoo! I finally made it to 4. That only took 2 years. A wee mention in Woman’s Day magazine probably helped.

Kevin @ Black Belt Marketing on January 1st, 2010 2:23 pm Definitely!

Mine jumped from 0 to 1. The site is about 3 weeks old.

uBid4it on January 1st, 2010 2:25 pm WhenI read this I thought wow but what a let down I to are just the same rank. Oh well maybe next year or maybe I’ll just look into why I didn’t.

John Sullivan on January 1st, 2010 3:33 pm Skip page rank HAPPY Birthday Daniel

Michael Martin on January 1st, 2010 3:35 pm One of my sites that’s brand new with no history and pushed live last week went to a PR4.

It may have to do with a 302 I was using to redirect it the first week before that.

Unfortunately PR doesn’t mean as much as it did 5 years ago other than simply caching and strength of a link from that page.

,Michael Martin

Nancy D. Brown on January 1st, 2010 3:44 pm Thanks for the PR alert.
My new writinghorseback.com niche travel blog went from 0 to PR2.

“What a Trip” nancydbrown.com stayed a solid 5.

Thanks for your very helpful Daily blog tips. Happy New Year to you.

Harrison on January 1st, 2010 4:34 pm Mine went from 3 to 4. Last time you did one of these stories my site went from 2 to 3. Interesting that another blog I visit always had higher page rank than I did but now they have gone down by 1!

Patrik on January 1st, 2010 4:50 pm @Keith Davis – I have a bit of links pointing to the site, I guess that is pretty important. I had some content to, It was just recently I decided to remove it because I will start over with a better website software.

Eric C on January 1st, 2010 5:21 pm Wow, last time I checked, my PR was 0, now I’m up to four. Sweet!

@Daniel: Do you recommend any specific tools to chekc PR? I just used a random website and I don’t think I want to use google toolbar.

Agent Deepak on January 1st, 2010 5:55 pm I got an update too. My PR is now 1. My blog is only 20 days old.

Arun Pal Singh on January 1st, 2010 6:01 pm Yes! They are doing it at an increased pace. I did not see any change in the ranks across my website.

Daniel Scocco on January 1st, 2010 6:02 pm @Eric C, I use the “search status” extension for Firefox.

Eric Brown on January 1st, 2010 6:29 pm Hi, This may be a silly question, but how do you check what your Google Page Rank is?

Thanks in advance,

GPRU on January 1st, 2010 6:41 pm that’s correct, it’s already updated yesterday within our main website when google change PRs, but it’s not confirmed as far as we know

Michelle on January 1st, 2010 6:54 pm My site jumped from 0 to 3. Very happy and a great way to start the new year. My site once had a PR of 4, but I rebuilt it from the ground up (converting to Wordpress) and I lost my PR for a while. Thanks for the reminder to check.

Happy New Year and thank you for all the awesome information you provide to those of us stumbling around in the dark:o))

Arie Rich on January 1st, 2010 11:45 pm Cool! I haven’t noticed any change in my page rank, I’m still a solid 3. Hopefully someday I’ll be a 4.

Bob Bessette on January 2nd, 2010 12:02 am Happily I went from a PR0 to PR3 and I’ve been blogging just under 6 months. I know it must be the guest posts I have done, especially the one on DailyBlogTips, on December 3rd. Thanks Daniel for giving me the opportunity. I have done many guest posts on other blogs but none have been as tweeted and commented on as the one on DailyBlogTips. Your audience is immense!
I was happily surprised a few days ago when I actually had a page rank. I never expected a 3 so soon. It really motivates me to work harder for the new year!

Best,
Bob

Books On Audio on January 2nd, 2010 2:12 am I still don’t get the importance of a PR. I see 0 PR on the first pages. Why?

Jaydip Parikh on January 2nd, 2010 3:34 am Yeah. My main Blog got PR 2. It was having PR 1. I was expecting few PR updates for my other site. but didn’t get anyways happy with PR 2 on my main site

fushar on January 2nd, 2010 3:39 am Yeah, finally my blog leaves the zero pagerank! It’s at PR 2 now ^ ^

Emz@IndoTravel on January 2nd, 2010 4:07 am My blog jump 1 to 2,…
Need hard work to build. All, Wish u luck in 2010!

Nail @ DailyAffiliateTips on January 2nd, 2010 5:43 am Mine got to PR1 from PR0, that made me happy

saad @ live soccer on January 2nd, 2010 5:53 am my blog didn’t gain much, just got a pr1 from 0 after 1 month of starting where as my other blog jumped to 3 from 2 in which i have done zero seo :S

techlineinfo on January 2nd, 2010 6:36 am Yes, it’s really true. Page rank of my site was zero not it has been jumped into three

Stephen on January 2nd, 2010 6:40 am My website went from PR 0 to PR 3

Eric Bouchard on January 2nd, 2010 7:36 am Just stared a new book reviews website (www.sffmeta.com), got my first visitor on december 20, I was amazed to see a page rank of 5 today, did not think it was possible!

Chris H on January 2nd, 2010 8:53 am Mine went from PR3 to PR4 – which is always nice

Oemar on January 2nd, 2010 9:34 am Yeah.. My Blog jump.. from 0 to 2 ..^^..

Alex man on January 2nd, 2010 10:15 am yes .. my website got updated it jump from PR1 to PR3
I am sooo happy for that.

Gouri on January 2nd, 2010 12:01 pm 0 to 4 is awesome. Mine jumped from 1 to 4.

Raivyn on January 2nd, 2010 7:26 pm My blog went from 0 to 3. Not bad, considering I started it in October.

Greg Smith on January 2nd, 2010 11:02 pm I’m sorry to report that traffic from google has dropped to almost nothing on my site. I can’t be sure it’s related to this change.

scheng1 on January 3rd, 2010 7:38 am Nothing changes for me, both blogs are still PR2. Anyway I am glad that the traffic from search engines increases

uBid4it on January 3rd, 2010 12:59 pm Well it bothered me about my site not moving but at looking at all the people here being so happy about there move up in ranks I’ll be happy with them. Congrats to all job well done. Happy New Year.

Roschelle on January 3rd, 2010 4:21 pm I remember the one back in late October. At that time, I went from unrecognizable to 0…lol. This time I jumped from 0 to 3.

Many SEO experts claim pagerank isn’t as important as it once was. I say it still matters. I tend to take blogs with pagerank more seriously.

It lets me know the blog has been out there a while and has information other people around the web think enough of to link to.

Eagerly anticipating what March will bring

Nicholas Cardot on January 3rd, 2010 11:11 pm My Blog, Site Sketch 101, moved up as well. I’m now proud to own a PR4 blog. Hopefully I can achieve PR5 status during 2010. I feel pretty confident about it.

Kuzey Kibris on January 4th, 2010 5:38 am Yes my site was PR2 when we were entering 2009 and during 2009 it became PR 0 !!!!!
I could not understand what happened then and i dont understand what happened now because its PR3 now. )
I dont need to understand it right now ))

Gordon on January 4th, 2010 8:11 am The homepage of my site went from a 0 to a 2 and my Blog went to a 1 – the site is less than 1 month old, so I am pretty happy!

I first noticed that something was happening when the back-links in my Google Webmaster Tools account went from 6 to 85 – is it typical for Google to refresh the number of back-links at the same time as a PR update?