Google PageRank Update August 2012 Confirmed

I know you all keep a close eye on the page rank for your blogs, I have to admit I also look out for it.Google usually update toolbar page rank four times a year so around every three months.Well today we we have noticed a Major page rank update taking place.A number of my sites have seen a page rank change, at the time of writing Spice Up Your Blog is holding steady with a page rank of 5.You can quickly check the page rank of your blog to see if there was any change using our free page rank checker tool. :

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Remember updates take place over hours or even days so if yours has not changed yet it may still have to be updated.The last page rank update was in May this year so expect another update before the end of the year.

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Last Google Pagerank Update Confirmations

Last Google Pagerank Update Confirmations

• SUSPECTED Google PR Update – 7 November 2011
• Confirmed PR Update Ist Week August 2011
• Confirmed PR Update Toolbar Pagerank Update – JULY 2011
• Confirmed PR update  Toolbar Pagerank Update – JUNE 2011
• Confirmed Network Wide Toolbar Pagerank Update – JANUARY 2011
• Confirmed Network Wide Toolbar Pagerank Update April 2010
• Confirmed Network Wide - Dec 31, 2009
• Confirmed Network Wide – 30 October 2009
• Confirmed Network Wide 27/28 May 2009 – Google PR Update?
  (Followed by what looked like and Internal PR update in June 2009)
• Confirmed – 1 / 2 April 2009 – Google Pagerank Update 2009
• Confirmed – 30-31 December 2008
• Confirmed – 27 September 2008
• Confirmed – 26 July 2008
• Confirmed – 29 April 2008
• Confirmed – 9,10,11,12 January 2008
• Confirmed – 26 October 2007
• Confirmed – 28 April 2007

Google Page Rank – A Beginners Guide

1. Toolbar Pagerank and Pagerank are two different, unsynchronised measurements based on the number and quality of links that pass pagerank to a particular page.
2. Google Toolbar Pagerank Not Visible? Just because a page has a Toolbar grey bar does not mean a page has no real pagerank – it can mean that of course, but it can mean other things. I’ve theorised Toolbar Grey Pages do not pass pagerank to external sites, and may be an indication Google has an issue with the page.
3. A white Google Toolbar generally signifies that the page has a measure of Real Pagerank, and that Pagerank score will be reflected in the next Pagerank update (which happens whenever Google decides will happen) – one of the most common questions about Pagerank is “When Is The Next Google Pagerank Update?
4. The fast way to lose PR is to openly sell links on your website. This is now officially against Google Webmaster Guidelines for inclusion.
5. The most common reason for a drop in Toolbar Pagerank is simply your website is recieving less Pagerank via the links it has pointing to it from other sites. This could be because the pages those links on them have less PR to give, the links themselves have dissappeared and no linger point to your site, or Google has in fact changed the way Pagerank works.
6. At the moment, a tangible effect when Google penalizes a site, is a reduction of visible Toolbar PR. Many sites who openly manipulated Google SERPS via paid review blogging and link-selling had their Google PR dramatically reduced in the last quarter of 2007 in Google’s opening salvo in the “war on paid links’, or so Google would have us believe.
7. Toolbar PR has little or no effect on amount of visitors Google will send you – believe me. Perhaps this is why bloggers who had PR devalued reported no loss of visitors from Google. A reduction in real PR however could see less pages on your site being indexed.
8. Many believe Google can’t find all paid links, and are using the Google Toolbar to spread FUD,
9. If you install the Google Toolbar you will see a green indicator in your Internet Explorer / Firefox toolbar showing you the Google Page Rank of the page. Hovering over the green bar will give you a number which is the page’s Google Page Rank.
10. It’s accepted that Toolbar Pagerank is more than a few months out of date as little as 2 weeks out of date by my observations. That is, Toolbar PR and Real PR.
11. Google Toolbar / DC PR is not an accurate representation of your current Real Page Rank and now that Google openly manipulates what you see, the integrity of the toolbar PR is very questionable indeed in some comminites like the seo community for instance – although in 2009, for most sites, it seems pretty accurate and sensible to me.
12. Think of Google Toolbar PR as ‘an indication of the PR of what your site might have been a couple of weeks ago.
13. To get a higher Page Rank for your domain, you need to get a lot of other pages with PR to link to you. I used an analogy to visualize Google PR, and used this same Google Heat analogy to get a PR 7 site until PR was apparently reduced within the SEO community, and this site fell to PR 5.
14. Page Rank flows, and so can be manipulated, channeled, blocked (with NoFollow) and screwed up. My Google Heat article explains how you can channel PR around a site. Just substitute “Heat” for “PR”.
15. Remember sites don’t have Google Pagerank, pages do. That’s why it’s possible for an internal page to have a higher PR than the home page.
16. The way a page gets Google Page Rank is from links to it and that’s the only way of Increasing Google Pagerank. IBLs (incoming backlinks) from high Google Page Rank pages can give you more Google Page Rank ‘Juice’ than links from low Google Page Rank pages. There is one other factor at play. The Google Pagerank they “give” is spread over the number of outgoing links on the pages. You may get more Google Page Rank benefit from a Google Page Rank 3 page with only two outbound links than a Google Page Rank 5 page with hundreds of outbound links.
17. Google looks to be rolling out PR changes month to month recently. One thing you can be sure off: When Google revises Google Page Rank the fastest way to discover it is at Digital Point.
18. I’ve seen sites go from anywhere from PR 0 to PR 7 in one update although in 2009 it’s MUCH HARDER to manipulate Pagerank the way I used to circa 2007 when Toolbar PR was a joke.
19. One still useful aspect of PR is that when an update happens you can use Toolbar PR to monitor how effectively you have spread potential Google Juice or Google Heat through a site architecture.
20. I could go into Google PR being a recursive algorythim, with decay factored in, and probably pretty far removed from the original Google Pagerank paper created by Larry Page who it’s actually named after, but this is a beginners guide and I don’t know enough about the maths anyway. You don’t need to either. Just get links from other sites!
21. I think a page accrues REAL PAGERANK within hours….

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Google Panda Update Slams Content Farms

Whether you call it “Panda,” as Google prefers, or “Farmer,” as the media labeled it, one thing is certain: the search engine's latest update sent shock waves through the Internet. Many sites lost their positions in the SERPs, while others were apparently unaffected. How can you maintain or regain your standing?


Before you can figure out what you need to change, it's worth looking at what got devalued. There seems to be a consensus emerging. If a site's pages are thin on content, or have a poor ad-to-content ratio, or contain content that has been copied from elsewhere, chances are they lost some Google love. So what is Google looking to reward?

Aaron Wall came up with a list of defining characteristics for “useful” content. These include the ability to pass a human inspection; not being a copy of another document, or ad-heavy; being well-linked externally; being created by a brand with a distribution channel that goes beyond the search engines; and not having “a 100% bounce rate followed by a click on a different search result for that same search query.” But how, exactly, has this change to the algorithm taught Google's search engine to figure out whether the web pages it analyzes could pass a human inspection? That's just one of many questions that Wall's suggested criteria raises.

Nevertheless, there are certain things you can do if the Panda Farmer took a swipe at your rankings. Start by looking at your ad-to-content ratio. If your site seems to be ad-heavy, you may be able to improve your rankings by reducing the number of ads you run on your pages, or beefing up your site's content. Feel free to do both in combination.
Vanessa Fox, writing for Search Engine Land, pointed out a telling quote from Google: “In addition, it's important for webmasters to know that low quality content on part of a site can impact a site's ranking as a whole...Removing low quality pages or moving them to a different domain could help your rankings for the higher quality content.”

The third thing you can do to help boost your website, according to Scott, is get involved in social media. This way, you're interacting with customers and potential customers outside of search. That's a good idea regardless of whether your rankings fell with the Panda Farmer update. With Facebook alone accounting for one out of every ten page views in the US, social networking and social media is one part of the Internet that is here to stay.

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