Google PageRank Update In Progress
It looks like Google is doing another round of PR updates. I noticed that my rank has gone back up to PR4. It used to be PR3. Could it be that Google is starting to like me again? They still don’t have me rank number 1 for my name but they move my position from page 6 to page 5. Woo! 
Looking around the Net I see more PageRank increase than decrease. Shoemoney is back up to PR6, from PR5 and Tyler Cruz has gone from PR0 to PR3. It looks like many of the PayPerPost blogs that were slapped with PR0 has been given some of their PR back.
I’m not sure what message, if any, Google is trying to send with this latest PR update. PR3 to PR4 doesn’t mean much. However, for a PPP blog that was slapped with a PR0, going back to PR3 means a bunch of PayPerPost offers just became available.
Did you blog PageRank went up or down with this latest update? I’ll be interested in knowing.
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Actually, as of 6:00pm ET, you ARE the #1 result in Google for your name. First time I’ve seen that, ever. Congrats.
Reply to this commentI’m actaully NOT seeing you as #1 for your name. I see John Cow!
Reply to this commentYeah, John Cow has been #1 for John Chow’s name for quite some time now. I think Google is letting go of some of the resentment…maybe. Or, there may just be so many other sites doing the same things John did that they have to start ranking on a curve…. so we all go up. *=) yay!
Reply to this commentOh, no! I’m getting flash-backs of college chemistry exams. Aaaaaahhhhhhh!
Isn’t it time we get rid of the bell-curve? It’s such a pessimistic model of society.
Hmmm… my Google rank remains steady at 2.
Reply to this commentGoogle is an asshole, almost like a child. “huuuuhuuu John tried to buy links I dont like him” few months later “hey john wanna be friends again?”
Reply to this commentYea, I’m seeing John Cow at #1 in Google for John Chow just like it’s been for a long time.
Reply to this commentI think those that are Smorty members are also slapped by Google. My PR3 blog went down to zero last month. What the heck but if this is true that Super G is returning the PR again thanks.
Reply to this commentNothing changed
Reply to this commentYes, nothing changed in my PR.
Reply to this commentI must be getting my Google from a different data canter because I don’t see the change on your blog or Shoemoney’s, still a 3 for you and a 5 for Shoe.
Reply to this commentSame here
Reply to this commentthe same for me
Reply to this commentyou guys need to follow the tutorial I showed on my blog post
http://www.balkhis.com/webmaster-world/balkhis-going-green-google-pagerank-update/
At the end of this post you can update your toolbar datacenter IP to the one which is updating. If you follow that then you can see the changes.
Reply to this commentDoes my toolbar need to update or something? Mine is still showing JohnChow.com at a PR3.
Reply to this commentI’m in California and I’m seeing what John is seeing.
Reply to this commentJohnChow.com PR4
ShoeMoney.com PR6
It doesn’t matter where you are from anyone can change the ip address of the toolbar and It will work.
Reply to this commentNo change at my blog just yet. Was a sweet PR6 back in the old days - two years ago. Now it is a reasonable PR2, but would be nice to get a boost with this update.
Reply to this commentWhat do you guys use to check PR?
Reply to this commentI’m just using the Google toolbar on my Firefox browser.
Reply to this commenttry this: mypagerank.info
Reply to this commentI still have a page rank of 0. My blog is right under 2 months old though. I was hoping to at least hit a 1. I am the 1st and 2nd result for “Adsense secrets volume” and “adsense secrets volume 4″
lol not much, but it was nice to see me on the first page for something. Maybe some of you can help out by stopping by. I just wrote a review on Joel Comm’s book, Adsense Secrets Volume 4. I also posted recently on how to start up your own site. I will be following up with some popular plugins I recommend and where to find some good free wordpress themes. Check it out!
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Reply to this commentWhat a awful day! Google kill me again! My blog Voice Of Dingchao goes down to PR0 from PR3!!! I believe this is definitely a murder! God knows it is.
Reply to this commentThis is the second PR update my blog has been through and it went from PR 2 to PR 3 which makes me happy. I haven’t put the time and effort into it that I used to…but I refuse to throw in the towel. This gives me some encouragement to keep pressing on.
Reply to this commentNo change, my site remained at PR5.
Reply to this commentI’m seeing different results for many of my sites (and Johnchow.com) when I use this SEO tool:
http://www.seochat.com/?option=com_seotools&tool=10
Maybe Google is mid-stream on somesort of update. Using the SEO tool I’m seeing some lower PR ratings then I do when I use the toolbar.
Reply to this commentMy blog TailgatingIdeas.com stayed the same as it was before. (Google PR 3) Same as John Chow so I guess my blog is a heavy hitter just like him…. But without the thousands of RSS readers of course.
Reply to this commentWooo
My blog is a PR3 now ! From PR0 To PR3 for my 4 month old, 100% 80 Unique article, and 1 PR3, 3 PR2 Backlinks. Sounds that google rewards me for my effort 
Reply to this commentI hope that everyone got what he deserve too.
I am PR5 now,
Reply to this commentGood for you. My PR went down to zero. Google is slapping blogs like there’s no tomorrow hehehe.
Reply to this commentI doubled from a PR2 to a PR4
What I found even more interesting is that one of my forums that was a PR4 got knocked down to a PR0 which I thought was due to my use of TLA code on the site. I removed the code after the drop and with the latest update I jumped up to a PR2.
Read more about my update here if you’re interested.
I believe it’s definetely safe to say that if you own even a small to mid sized site running TLA can be hazardous to your Page Rank’s health
Reply to this commentNot sure I would agree with this at all. Most of the sites I follow that got hit a few updates back seem to have recovered their PR. In fact, even text-link-ads.com themselves have their PR7 back again.
Reply to this commentMy PR went up a notch to 4. I was thinking that my low PR before was caused by the 181 errors I get when I try validating my index page’s code (http://validator.w3.org). BTW … you get 108 errors. I used to have over 300 hundred errors but many of those disappeared when I started uninstalling WordPress plugins.
Reply to this commentThere are many WP plugin authors producing very bad code.
Woohoo PR6!
Reply to this commentMy Google PR is 3. I think this pagerank update is only in USA.
Reply to this commentHere in Brazil, all blogs I know are in the same rank. Let´s wait for news…
I went from a PR0 to a PR2 since yesterday. Not much, but sure makes me happy!
Reply to this commentNothing as of yet, still a PR3. I’m curious though about how I’ll be ranked now that I’ve switched the site over to Nings platform.
Reply to this commentJust noticed the same, good and bad news for me! My premier Exchange Server siteThe Exchange Information Store has gone from PR5 to PR4 but my new Business Travel websiteThe Business Travel Guru went from a PR3 to PR5, which I was expecting as I put alot into this site in the last few months. Have not checked all of my other sites but NetMoneyFAQ.com remains unchanged.
Reply to this commentBen
My older domain names stayed at PR4.
My newer domain, StanleyBronstein.com is still a zero, even though I’m getting pretty good traffic, but the site is still less than 3 month’s old.
How long does it normally take to get a ranking?
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Reply to this commentStanley Bronstein
Attorney, CPA, Author, Blogger & Professional Motivational Speaker
One of my sites went from a PR 3 to PR4. Another went from a PR 4 to PR 5 and another went from PR1 to PR 4. So, I’m a happy camper.
Reply to this commentI hope they give it back to some of my older sites, as well as assign one to my newest sites
Reply to this commentMy blog (4 months old) went from PR0 to PR4. Hooray!
Reply to this commentPage Rank Page Rank PAge Rank…I’m not sure how important it is or what it means really. I guess it helps if you are planning on selling your site, but what does it do for you really?
Reply to this comment~Terry
I get PR3, and I used ppp programs…
Reply to this commentPR 4 to PR3 and now back to PR4! I want to hit PR 5 hehe.
Reply to this commentMine is still a pr 0.
Reply to this commentMine too, but I only started 3 days ago. Hope it gets better for both of us
Reply to this commentMy pagerank is increased from PR3 to PR4 according to prchecker.
Reply to this commentMine is still PR4, which I don’t mind at all!
-Mike
Reply to this commentSweet….. My Oldest Site http://www.Sur-mokka.dk just went from PR1 to PR2.
Reply to this commenthttp://www.blogsmarter.dk is still PR1, but the blog is only 5 month old.
wow…..my pagerank went from 0 to 5…..amazing…..
Reply to this commentMine get PR 6 !!! Yummy
Reply to this commentMine was 0, still 0. But my search engine traffic has increased significantly. How? Because I target certain keywords, I am using Hittail to monitor these.
Check this one http://www.searchforblogging.com/index.php/2007/12/19/how-to-track-your-keywords-with-hittail/
Reply to this commentHi all.
I’m based in the uk & I’ve not seen any change yet.
Any increase would be great for me.
Cheers
Reply to this commentJohn M
Google has been generous with this recent Pagerank update. My blog jumped from a PR2 to a PR4. I often wondered if this recent PR update is temporary because one of my other website dropped back to a PR 3, but still maintained it’s #1 positions. Now more than ever, Pagerank is merely a small indicator for determining the search rank for a site.
Reply to this commentI went from a PR 0 - PR 3…. for my main Blog Balkhis
A sister blog went from PR 0 - PR 4
My Web Designing firm is PR 3/4 … it was Pr 0 before
Btw: All of those who wants to check the update in the toolbar,
http://www.balkhis.com/webmaster-world/balkhis-going-green-google-pagerank-update/
Follow the tutorial I have provided and that will update the ip of your toolbar to the datacenters that are updating right now so you can check the updates.
Reply to this commentMy http://ww2db.com site has gone up to PR4! The months of hard SEO labor is paying off!
Of course, I have to thank John Chow, Steve York, et al for the great advice along the way
Reply to this commentHmmm it looks like it did update. Here’s a rundown of my personal changes….
AdverCash.net - Now PR4
TitanClicks.com - Stayed PR4
TitanCash.net - Now PR4
AWSurveyScam - Now PR4
TitanGamingMedia.com - Now PR4
Anyone need some PR4 links??? lol
Reply to this commentI’m a happy camper this morning to see that my blog went from a PR 1 to a PR 3, now if they just increase my SE traffic by about 4 times I’ll be even happier.
Reply to this commentI went from PR0 to PR3 in the previous update, this time I’m now at PR4. Google loves me
Reply to this commentMy PR went from a PR4 to a PR3. I am so mad!!! and so sad
Reply to this commentNo worries Debo, you have an interesting site, that’s something GooglePR cannot take away
Reply to this commentAwh Thanks so much Pete. You do too with all the WW2 history and stories. Thanks bunches
Reply to this commentgod damn it still stuck at PR 2
Reply to this comment5 of my sites received PR4 from PR0 and i’ve had one decreased from PR4 to PR3 but well… does anyone knows when will we see this change with google toolbar?
Reply to this commentShoot! Still no rank for my blog, even after 250+ posts with all original content and a feed/subs list that’s starting to take off. 80 1 month ago and now up to 510. This facking thing is really pissing me off now. My Laglee.com site went from nothing to pr 3 at least. my cruise site Cruisecrownprincess.com went from 2 to nothing.
Congrats to all who saw improvements.
Reply to this commentBTW.. I just realize that the Laglee.com site that went up 3 places is the only site that I have a google sitemap thingy installed on. Not sure if this made a difference or not.
Reply to this commentThis shows how much of a joke this is
I bought a PR5 domain with 2 PR5 backlinks and not much else
and it kept PR5.
I’m very happy because I go crazy on the PPP with a PR3 domain (a PR3 that I earned) and the PR5
However PPP will go nuts for the next few days because of everyone testing out their new page rank. Once it dies down I can get back to making money.
Reply to this commentToday my site’s PR dropped and dont know hwy even though everything was fine!! this is really crazy that Google is updating PR within 20 days of period.
Reply to this commentdo page ranks make any real sense…
Reply to this commentahhh yes i am now a PR 3 since the update! i used to be a PR 1 and then before that a PR 4… it’s like a roller coaster ride!
Reply to this commentGoogle is trying to control the internet. Now the results are so manipulated that I don’t know if can’t rely on google service. John chow dot com is an example that google manipulates the results.
Reply to this commentAgreed 100% they manipulate it.
Reply to this commentThe other day I notice that my site page rank of 3 went up to 4, but I don’t give a dumb because what I really need is traaaaffiiiiiiiic to my site
Reply to this commentExactly… I’m not too worried about pagerank… I think we just need to worry about improving our content. Better content = more visitors, more visitors = well, you get the picture.
Reply to this commentPR0 to PR3 on mine!
ooooh, how exciting…
Reply to this commentI moved from pr2 to pr3. thought it would be more.
Reply to this commentHi,i had PR3 on my site,now i went down to PR 0,(lots of experiments) but my subdomains on this main www went from PR0 to PR1 PR2 & PR3….damn!
Reply to this commentYou must have been out of topic blogging about PR John
anyway congrats for the PR4
Reply to this commentMy dog blog went up to a PR3 rank. Woo Hoo.
Reply to this commentFrom 0 to 3. Nice to know that google knows that I’m alive. Now all I have to do is hace JC notice me.
Reply to this commentI’m waiting for it
Reply to this commentI am PR1 now
Reply to this commentLots of local bloggers’ ranks went up except for mine
Reply to this commentDid you know you are also on page 4 now for the term “make money online” ironically you are higher up for that than your own name it would appear
Reply to this commentYep,
My Blog went from PR0 to PR5.
Its relevantly a new blog.
I still see some dancing on Google data centers.
Reply to this commentI am summing it will take few more days until they all be synchronized.
I have a feeling that there was a change in the algo.
I don’t see any reason that my blog will get PR5.
Mine is now PR2 from n/a
Reply to this commentI am very happy
I love it… PR3 for the very first time
Reply to this commentTwo of my sites went up a rank. About time!
Reply to this commentI have reviewed to online casino sites in February. That maybe is the reason my PR3 blog went down to zero. I also learned that Google is slapping all Smorty members. Unfortunately I was one of those members. Grrrrrrrrrr!!!
Reply to this commenti don’t think pagerank update all my site not update
Reply to this commentMy blog dropped from a pr3 to pr1 and the number of new visitors dropped from 30+ per day to 0. The only changes I made was to update my profile and put a link to my e-book about settling tax debts with the IRS.
Reply to this commentMy website (located at http://www.marklangenfeld.com ) went from PR3 to PR4. I was one of the PPP bloggers slapped with a PR0 last year and I had to delete or edit any paid entries and kiss up to Google (re-inclusion request) to get the PR3 back.
I’ve been at a PR3 for years, I’m pretty excited to have broken that barrier.
Reply to this commentMine went from PR2 to PR3 today (or was it yesterday). Anyway it was definitely PR2 a few days ago. W
Reply to this commentwent up to a Pr5! http://www.sweethacks.com
Reply to this commentThe new sites I have got a PR, but those ones who were slapped due to monetizing remained 0
Reply to this commentI will recommend you to play with robots.txt and hide your e-book, so you will increase your Subscribers (page 6)
[PDF]
Make Money Online With John Chow dot Com
File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat
which is make money online, making money online, make money from a blog, blogging … targeted to the main theme of my blog, which is to make money online. …
http://www.johnchow.com……..
You can add on robots.txt the following (in case you are not aware about it):
Disallow: /your ebook folder/
Disallow: .pdf
rename or change your e-book folder and then place the codes on robots.txt so the spiders will not index it.
Reply to this commentSomething funny happened to my website. I had a PR3 before I made some paid posts … it went to 0 for 1 day and got back to PR2 after 2-3 days. I wanna get it fixed as soon as possible so I began some link building again
Reply to this commentI’m actually NOT seeing you as #1 for your name. I see John Cow!!!
Viva forever….
Reply to this commentDon’t see any changes on my sites.(((
Reply to this commentPR5 in the latest update! This is the highest yet!
Reply to this commentThe day you release this article was PR3, but I realized that it changed to PR4. Good job.
Reply to this commentMy website has comeback from PR0 to PR3,I have checked JohnChow using dnscoop PR3 but using estibot PR4
Reply to this commentGoogle just needs to keep screwing with our page ranks. I haven’t seen so much crap since Halo 2.
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Reply to this commentMy company web a small roofing and waterproofing company web get a google PR1 in first time. I haven’t done any SEO or web directories submit in the past two months.
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