Rhemaranch Blog

Google used to update PageRank of websites every 3 to 4 months based on the number of backlinks a site has and just leaving it at that. But lately Google has been messing up and doing things with with the PR update. At first, the PR update was a whole 6 months late happening in October instead of July as previously thought of by many webmasters. Then google updated the pageranks about 5 or 6 times within a 4 week period. That was unheard of in the history of pagerank and it has gotten many webmasters infuriated because they cannot do their regular business.

Google finally stopped the PR update at the end of October, or as we all thought. Just a few days ago, google started Dropping the Pageranks of many websites for no reason at all. It has even dropped the PR of such sites such as Microsoft, Yahoo, and NASA for no obvious reasons even though they have way more than enough backlinks. This blog is still a PR5 but I don’t know for how long and at this rate, people will stop trusting Google and its faulty PR update and go with something else.

IZEA is working on something called Real Rank which will put more weight into a website’s traffic when determining the Real Rank or RR. Personally I can’t wait for that system to come out because I am already anxious to know where I will rank. Hopefully they come out fast and if Google doesn’t do something about it, their PageRank idea will go out the window and hit the ground really hard.

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