Towards the end of February till the early days of March, Google PageRank underwent some updating. This should be good, no? Well, if I were to base my answer on the various goings on in the blogosphere, it seems that something has gone not-quite-right. Then again, it depends on your perspective.
According to denizens of the cyber world, the recent PageRank update has brought on trouble for internal web pages that have no external links pointing at them. Think about your own blog or web site, which pages are not likely to have external links pointing at them? You got it – they’re probably resources and the pages that contain links that point outward! The thing is, these pages are necessary. The other thing is, you can’t really have too many incoming links coming from external sources to these pages! So do not be surprised if you suddenly see the PageRank of these pages drop – I have seen some of these pages drop to PR0 even!
So what should be your course of action now? According to Kenkai, do not panic. He goes on to say that:
It’s only an indicator that is fairly accurate for one day every three to four months and B, the longevity of a link has always been more important than whether it it PR3 or PR2.
For new links, look at the PR of the index page and how many links are on the page that you are being offered a link from. A PR0 page with 150 links on it, isn’t worth considering, but a PageRank 0 page with ten links on it may be, as long as the link ticks the other link factor boxes.
So keep your pants on. It’s not the end of the world.
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I have no idea what is going on with the whole PR thing, and I read your article twice but still don’t understand it. I still have my pants on though, and my panties aren’t in a twist, so I guess I’ll wait another quarter and see if I get my pathetic little PR 2 back or if I am destined to remain forever a PR 0. O Woe.
Many of my pages have plummeted in page rank across various niches.
Only time will tell if it’s nothing to worry about… seems as though we have to simply increase the number of links to sub-pages too.
Flint
its not updating even after a month…:(