Google PR Update - April 2007

It seems that the Google PR Update or more precisely the Google Toolbar PR export is underway.

I’ve noticed some movements since April 28, 2007.

I’m quite glad with the PR update results for the couple of web sites we own. We do mainly much better:

• PR0 from previous 1-2 months are now at least PR3 without having done efforts
• The 2 recent web sites that will host the future AdFlex SEO 0.9 versions and related SEO tools and services (http://www.adflexseo.com and http://www.adflexcenter.com) went from PR0 to PR5 in less than 6 weeks time.
• My company web site (http://www.vksolutions.com) has turned from PR3 to a high PR5 (estimated to PR 5.9), but we expected PR6 that we should get by the next PR update in 3 months. It was PR0 in December 2006.
• My tech research division web site (http://www.vklabs.com) is now a high PR5 (estimated to PR 5.8).
• This very recent blog (http://www.askvk.com) that was launched since only 3 weeks went from PR0 to PR2 without any efforts, which is bad at all. I expect to have at least PR5 bu the next Google PR update.
• Most PR3 are now PR4 or PR5.
• Most PR4 are now PR5.
• Some PR5 became PR6.
• No change for previous PR6 (like http://digital-proof.org).

I only saw some PR decreases for some of the expired domain names I’ve recently bought, which indicates me to be more careful when playing with expired domain names due to the fact it’s too visible for Google.

Of course, the PR factor is just one of the many factors in the Google ranking equation. The PR may be the most visible factor as we can all see it in the Google toolbar but it’s not an accurate index as PR are changing everyday but only reflected in the Google Toolbar PR once every 3 months.

The PR score has also decreased a lots in term of weight in the Google ranking score. Now the most important factor is what people used to call the Google TrustRank (Trust Score) that combines the PR score with other ranking scores calculated from 100+ different Google algorithms.

Anyway, I hope all of you are glad with the Google PR update. If you want to share and discuss, just tell me.

VK

PS: I’ve got the info from some underground networks that said that Google has diminished the PR weight from articles directories, link directories, web sites that sell links and web sites that have reaches a certain amount of outgoing links, which could explain the global decrease of PR during the last PR Toolbar export of April 2007.