Google ToolBar PageRank is FAKE!?
Filed in: Google — January 15th, 2008
Apparently, Google is updating the PageRank for the first time in 2008. As always, many webmasters are talking about the increase or decrease of their websites’ PageRank.
In case you are curious, you can check your website’s pagerank at different datacenters at DigPagerank.
However, some discovered that Google Directory has different PageRank values for each website than the Google Toolbar PageRank. Some previously PageRank penalized websites still keep the high PR in Google Directory.
Meaning, Google might use fake data for the PageRank on Google toolbar!
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January 15th, 2008 at 10:58 pm
Yea, I think that’s how things was. I discussed with some SEO gurus previously and what they come to agree is that Google should be “hiding” your real PR and throw you with a PR0 or penalized value so you cant sell links. Your content are actually still indexed.
It’s not really a “fake” value in Google Toolbar, rather your “public” PR value.
January 15th, 2008 at 11:57 pm
i have 2 blog decrease..lol..
January 16th, 2008 at 12:47 am
My blog still Page Rank 0
Weird…
January 16th, 2008 at 9:14 am
This is the first thing I heard about this. Is it true. Hm..
January 16th, 2008 at 11:40 am
Google is bad! Very bad boy. Sigh… Oh… Thanks for tipping me
Hehehe… I got my irenelaw.com PR back to 3 after submitting for reconsideration because it’s free from paid posts and ad selling. However, Sweet Surrender is still stucked at PR0, can’t do anything much…
January 16th, 2008 at 12:04 pm
Either fake or not, we have to follow the game rules.
–blog for dream–
January 16th, 2008 at 12:19 pm
Got mine penalized T_T
January 16th, 2008 at 4:39 pm
I would agree with Ah Tim
January 16th, 2008 at 4:40 pm
I tested with DigPagerank and mine was the same. So i guess not all PR are hidden :p
January 17th, 2008 at 4:45 am
Maybe google is doing something BIG behind, we wait for it to be revealed. However, my site which just started on 1st of Jan is still having a grey-in-colour PageRank. Good Luck!
Alvin.
January 17th, 2008 at 10:40 am
PR is important to webmasters who are selling spaces for advertisements.
Many of my websites are having zero PR with low traffic (averaging 50/day mostly from the US) but I’m making enough Adsense earnings to pay my bills.
Apparently to get higher PR one needs to be sneaky (using aggressive SEO tools like RSS Equalizer, Traffic Equalizer, ArticleBot, Kloakit, Ad Network, Link Vault, etc.)
Read more at http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk/2008/01/15/time-to-be-sneaky/
January 17th, 2008 at 3:31 pm
HongKiat is correct. PR fluctuates on a daily basis. It is just one of many (maybe hundreds of ) values that make up its SERP algorithms. So it’s not “fake”, but rather a “snapshot” of one particular datacenter (of which Google also has many).
January 19th, 2008 at 9:07 am
my blog also got it first page rank…i don t know
January 19th, 2008 at 11:45 am
Mine still 0 woh…
Dont know how
January 19th, 2008 at 5:05 pm
I see this is an ongoing process. I get all my new three blog PR2 from 0 i don’t know if this is a permanent basis.
Whatever it is this might a game from google kill PP industry
January 20th, 2008 at 11:35 am
Hi! I hope this is true as I’ve just lost my 4/10 on my blogspot blog! Just as I’ve become a stay-at-home Mum and hoping to earn some $$$, this happened. I don’t understand it and I’m worried of losing my private domain’s 3/10 rank now…
But I don’t earn anything from Adsense and get more from PPP - shud I stop PPP then to earnback my PageRank? But that means earning nothing! So depressing
January 20th, 2008 at 11:40 am
@KittyCat: frankly, I do not recommend PPP.
January 21st, 2008 at 12:43 am
Why you dont recommend PPP? What’s the reason liew?