Wriging

There were a couple of notes on this, like this one. Mine went up in the end. Scrivs said how he felt about 9rules PR.

Personally I don't care one way or the other. I think it's kind of messed up they made such a drastic change and still haven't said anything.

Yeah, Tyme. I just discovered Scriv's post over at OREO CEO about 15 minutes ago. It led me to your post too. I missed those posts, initially.

I guess the sudden shock that hit me when I visited 9rules this morning and looked up to find a green bar that only went to 4 got the better of me. I re-refreshed three times and it just stayed there. Wow!

I'm curious as to the long-lasting effects of this will be, as far as search results and traffic.

I'd like an explanation because I think companies won't know what to do. The way they've borked it PR can't be used for advertising at all. My site is on the same level as Forbes and I guarantee you they put out a lot more quality content than I do and my PR is higher than You Tube's.

I guess what I want to know is what PR means now?

"I guess what I want to know is what PR means now?"

... that's a good question! I guess we'll have to wait and see, at least 'till the dust settles. I've read in a few places that say that he drop in PR doesn't affect traffic; I've also read the opposite. So, who knows until Google or M. Cutts actually says something official.

What a day in the Internets though!

I don't even check my PR, so I guess this doesn't affect me. I think total visits and pageviews is much more important traffic-wise than PR or other rankings.

I recommend ignoring toolbar pagerank. It's not an accurate measure of anything.

Of all of the blogs I know that lost PR, none lost rankings for any phrases. And that's what counts.

Google's getting ready for their annual Thanksgiving index shuffle, I think.

I rarely look at mine but I have since all this hoopla. My personal site dropped and my Darfur site stayed the same.
The personal site has probably four times as much traffic and subscriptions, and four times as many links to it so I guess the inline in post text link ads affected it. That is what someone told me.

I can't see that it matters, but yeah people are frigging dying in a useless war, and evidently still need to learn how to wash their hands with all that MRSA going around, but google page rank is what everyone seems to prefer to talk about.

after more than 6 months waiting for Pr updated at last google had make a move on it. My site still at the same PR however, 2 of my new site had been hit with PR3. But, im not felt anything on it since google is so unpredictable evil.

Some people argue on this time updated since some good site been dropped so much in PR and some worse site had grow their PR much good than before. I don't know why but maybe google testing a new tool :)

-catzer

Google is always testing and tweaking and sometimes we don't even notice and sometimes the whole web is turned upside down. Maybe Google is preparing for a maturing blogosphere? (Shameless self promotion)