Many people have been commenting on forums, blogs, and message boards about the recent Google PR changes. I'm actually surprised there hasn't been even more buzz about it, because it looks that a lot of web sites and internal pages have indeed changed in PR levels, but it doesn't seem like it was a stand alone "Google Pagerank Update". It looked to me more like a finish on what was left undone on the last update.
I found pages that went up and pages that went down. The pages that went down appeared to be pages I thought would have gone down last time, but somehow didn't, as well as some pages that I thought should have gone up, but had not gone up - now it seems they have finally gotten some PR like I thought they should have.
BUT – there's definitely some pages that lost PR all together that I did not expect that to happen to. A lot of pages went gray, almost like their banned, but their still in the index, rank, and look fine. I can only guess that these are pages that may not have been linked to enough from internal link structures or pages that did not acquire inbound links from out side sources; or possibly, pages that did not change or update enough to retain their PR.
This could be a new sophisticated way of measuring whether a page that was once important, is still important. In my opinion, I don't think Google wants un-warranted PR just floating around on pages with all this stress on link and PR buying/selling on their to-do list. These are of course just guesses on my part, but educated guesses. Like everyone else, I'm trying to make some sense out of it so that I can feel like I have a glimmer of hope in knowing what in the world Google is up to. But it's all speculation right now. But again this is what I am seeing.
I really think it has to do with one or all of these factors:
• Not enough new links in
• Week internal link structure
• Not enough updates
All in all, I really don't see any drastic importance in any of this. The most important thing is that a site owners traffic should not change either way, but for those people who judge sites strictly on PR, these gray bars could be a bit confusing. Many people, one being a close associate of mine, reminded me that some people believe that the infamous gray bar is a sign of Google banned pages; a sign of what could be the worst penalty you could receive. I say, it's just a sign that what made since yesterday, may not make since today. My advice still doesn't change much. Build a great site, with excellent content and value for both the search engines and your visitors, and you'll always find yourself in "good position".
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