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For those of you who like to see what Google thnks about your website popularity, the Google PageRank update has started! Today at about 7 AM EST I noticed many of our domains were getting an increase in Pagerank. So far it looks like the update will put a smile on a few peoples faces.

We recently posted a Google PageRank predictive schedule and we suspected an update before April 10th. It is not the end of the world if your site does not increase in PR or decreases in PR, these updates (Good or Bad) will most likely not change your web traffic stats.

Happy PageRank Day!

We have a lot of webmasters ask the big PR questions very frequently: When is the next Google PageRank Update?

The truth is no one knows exactly when the next PageRank update by Google will actually take place. Based off of their past updates I created the unofficial Google PageRank Update Schedule. The “schedual” is my estimate on when the next PageRank update will take place.

PageRank Update Schedual:

Google PageRank Update  -   December 31, 2009 – January 10, 2010
First PageRank Update      -    March 31, – April 10, 2010
Second PageRank Update  -  June 31, 2010 – July 10, 2010
Third PageRank Update    -    December 31, 2010 – January 10, 2011

What is pagerank? PageRank is a numeric value that represents how important a page is on the web (Per Google). Google calculates that when one page links to another page, it is effectively casting a vote for the other page. The more votes (Links) that are cast for a page, the more important the page must be. Also, the importance of the page that is casting the vote (Linking To You) determines how important the vote (Link) itself is. Google calculates a page’s importance from hw many pages and what pages link to it.

PageRank is a scale of 0-10

Post a comment and let us know when you think the next updat will be or tell us when your site was last updated!

There is always a lot of Hoopla and Hype about Google Pagerank (PR).  Is Google PageRank worth all the web chatter? I see everyone talking about how important PageRank is, even I am caught up in the PageRank addiction.

I read a comment the other day on a forum and someone posted this comment about PageRank:

“The PageRank you see in the toolbar is a sketchy and stale metric of what a pages PageRank used to be. A simple analogy is getting into your car to go for a drive, knowing that the fuel gauge only shows the amount of fuel that was in your tank 3 months ago. But would you really trust that there is gas in it today?”

In my opinion the green PageRank bar is like your website’s report card.  It won’t help much on its own, but it represents other things about your site.  If a site has a PR7 and is ranking well, it’s not ranking there because of the PageRank itself, but because of what that PageRank represents – Dedicated SEO Work, lots of inbound links, several coming from other quality sites.

So it is not the PageRank that is important, it is what you did to get the PageRank that hold the true value.

I’ll certainly admit that PageRank isn’t as valuable as it once was.  However, it is still reputed to be a small portion of the Google algorithm (along with 100+ other factors), making it not entirely insignificant.  It might not help much, but if it helps at all then it can’t be considered “insignificant”.

What Is Your take on PageRank? Tell us by leaving a comment!