Page Rank Update Megathread (update 31.12.2009)

Any one notice that there are database type links this time also?

I have one link listed in my backlinks as ... http://www.domain.com/cgi-bin/links/rate.cgi?ID=483. I let that one drop because I did not expect credit for this type of link.

Another one has my complete URL listed in the content of the page, but the link is ... http://www.domain.com/redirect.php/action/links/goto/58?

Interesting backlinks.
Guess I have to review those sites that are not direct links?

From what I've heard it's specifically because we CAN now so easily see the PR that Google are changing this.

Before, even if you got a list of somebody's backlinks, it was still a lot of work to visit each of these sites, get the PR through the toolbar, and figure out who was worth trading a link with, or convincing to link to you.

Now, it's a lot easier to see at a glance on a page who is high PR, which seems to be why the backlinks lists have become a little muddied, showing many more PR0-3 pages, and actually not showing all high PR pages in the results (I've seen many large sites LOSE big numbers backlinks SERPS, yet in reality, the pages linking to their URL has actually gone up).

Seems like a lot of work for Google to protect MY backlinks. I think there is a deeper point we are missing here. The problem is that by the time the links are reported as backlinks your competition has 1-2 months jump on you.

Backlinks and PR is easy to get. I put my link harvester up here:
http://www.mrktcity.com/linkpr.html

I can take any link page and pull all the external links ... then query all the site PR's from Google.

PROG was so much better because it gave the page rank of the page containing the link.

Next week Ill put my database link harvester out there....

I'm seeing internal backlinks that are 5 clicks away from a PR5 page....these pages have always had low PR..1 or 2. My internal pages that are linked directly to the front page (PR5) are not all listed...and the PR indicator on the toolbar says the pages are PR0...anyone else see this type of behavior?

dmoz.org editor link does show up - well mine does

back links from OZZU have gone but it has not hit bigwebmaster.com in any other way. This is weird cos other forum links are showing up including phpBB.com that never used to show up. Sites with less than PR4 are also showing up however ranking has not changed.

I don't think it is over yet. I have been reading in some other forums and a lot of users are saying the same things. Everyone say BL updates but no real serp movement and no PR updates on pages. I would have to think that this was some sort of hiccup or algo change versus an update.

I still don't see any changes in PR ... especially for new pages that would normally be updated after a regular BL update.

Does this update really count, or is it simply an algorithm change?

I still stick to my prediction that the REAL update won't happen until Aug 4-5.

This looks more like a glitch in the system than an update....there are simply unexplainable things. People are wildly speculating that the backlinks showing now could be future pages that will have PR4 or higher...but based on my site strucutre it's impossible for that to happen. It's almost looks like the backlinks that are showing are the page that won't have good PR....I have about 100 pages added last month that are showing up as backlinks and none of my other pages are showing up...these new pages are so far down the site strucutre that they could not get PR 4

Yeah, it looks like they may be showing pages that are PR0-3 only, and ditching the PR4 pages from the listings to prevent people stealing others' high PR backlinks.

erm I wish Axe

Think your basing that on Ozzu back links
http://www.webmasterbrain.com/prog/sear ... com&num=10

All my site like are showing all PR pages that link to you. Check out:
http://www.webmasterbrain.com/prog/sear ... .uk&num=10

Very little or no change in ranking.

Actually, I didn't even look at the Ozzu backlinks. It was a theory I'd seen mentioned in a few places, and a couple of my domains are showing up 1500 backlinks, but almost all of the URLs that come up in those results were PR0-3 pages.

IF the theory has any truth to it, it could be that the PR4+ pages being shown in backlinks now are simply waiting to drop. PR didn't change during this "update".

But, without seeing what happens on the next full PR/Backlinks update, it's going to be impossible to say.

I'm giving up on trying to track pr/backlink updates. They're so random there is no point.

Better off to just keep working on your site getting backlinks and optimizing it - when the update does occur you'll have a present for that day and hopefully your hardwork will have paid off.

People who do SEO for a living, can't pay their bills with hope

Of course, the backlinks are only one small aspect of SEO.

Do you really think google cares that people try to get good backlinks....if so they could just eliminate or devalue the backlink portion of the algo...this would be allot easier than displaying bogus baclinks...they screwed up...It's just like the florida update...something is going to happen but we won't know what until it happens.

They might care if they've seen a huge load on their servers now that there's a PR checksum code out there for the masses.

If everybody's now checking all the backlinks easily and pulling out the high PR pages, it can seriously muddy their results.