Comments on: PageRank update on it’s way http://www.thatedeguy.com/archives/2007/10/pagerank-update-on-its-way My commentary on Tech News, Starting a business, Ebay, and Everyday Life Tue, 07 Oct 2008 09:16:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: John Hunter http://www.thatedeguy.com/archives/2007/10/pagerank-update-on-its-way#comment-93753 John Hunter Sat, 27 Oct 2007 17:55:11 +0000 http://www.thatedeguy.com/archives/2007/10/pagerank-update-on-its-way#comment-93753 I think Google did the penalty drop first. Then yesterday they started the normal pagerank update. So It might be a site went from the 5 they had 6 months ago to a 3 on the penalty. Then increased to 4 based on the pagerank update. It wasn't until yesterday that pages that had not been ranked 6 months ago started to get ranked. Also pagerank can bounce around during pagerank updates. I don't really understand why. But looking at different Google datacenters the rank for your site can very over a period of days. That it takes awhile to propagate I could understand. Say you go from a 4 to a 5 - they might not all show that at first. But I have seen sites show values from 2-5 that change on different datacenters back and forth over a few days. That just seems weird to me. I think Google did the penalty drop first. Then yesterday they started the normal pagerank update. So It might be a site went from the 5 they had 6 months ago to a 3 on the penalty. Then increased to 4 based on the pagerank update.

It wasn’t until yesterday that pages that had not been ranked 6 months ago started to get ranked.

Also pagerank can bounce around during pagerank updates. I don’t really understand why. But looking at different Google datacenters the rank for your site can very over a period of days. That it takes awhile to propagate I could understand. Say you go from a 4 to a 5 - they might not all show that at first. But I have seen sites show values from 2-5 that change on different datacenters back and forth over a few days. That just seems weird to me.

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