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Happy dance!!!

0 to 3!!! yee haw!

BeatingBroke said:

Ok, so maybe this is a silly question, but I can't find a solid answer anywhere.  BB used to be a PR2, but it dropped to a 0.  If this is another PR update, it will be the second one where BB has remained at a PR0.  I've got a mozrank of over 5, so I'm fairly certain that I should have a PR of greater than 0.  Obviously, I've gotten on the bad side of google.  Is there a way to find out why?  Or to get them to pull me off the blacklist?

Wait at least 48 hours before going crazy over it.  

I used this tool: http://www.searchenginegenie.c…..-tool.html to check your Pagerank on a bunch of different datacenters, and they all say zero, unfortunately.  So it's likely that it isn't a datacenter reporting issue, but there's no way to be sure.

The first thing I would do if I were you would be to check out any links you have going to any site that aren't related to personal finance.  Post bodies being the first place to check, and then check your comments section for any spammy comments from promoters.  

Make secular as many datapoints as you can.  One thing that may "spook" Google is that Yakezie linking box at the bottom of each of your posts.  Is anyone else using that right now?  Did they go to zero?  

JT_McGee said:

BeatingBroke said:

Ok, so maybe this is a silly question, but I can't find a solid answer anywhere.  BB used to be a PR2, but it dropped to a 0.  If this is another PR update, it will be the second one where BB has remained at a PR0.  I've got a mozrank of over 5, so I'm fairly certain that I should have a PR of greater than 0.  Obviously, I've gotten on the bad side of google.  Is there a way to find out why?  Or to get them to pull me off the blacklist?

Wait at least 48 hours before going crazy over it.  

I used this tool: http://www.searchenginegenie.c…..-tool.html to check your Pagerank on a bunch of different datacenters, and they all say zero, unfortunately.  So it's likely that it isn't a datacenter reporting issue, but there's no way to be sure.

The first thing I would do if I were you would be to check out any links you have going to any site that aren't related to personal finance.  Post bodies being the first place to check, and then check your comments section for any spammy comments from promoters.  

 

Make secular as many datapoints as you can.  One thing that may "spook" Google is that Yakezie linking box at the bottom of each of your posts.  Is anyone else using that right now?  Did they go to zero?  

 

 

Thanks for the SEO tool, it's really helpful since it checks multiple datacenters. I have that same Yakezie box under my posts as well. Why do you think Google would have a problem with it? To me, it's similar to the "related posts" plugin that a number of us use. Do you think there is an issue with those types of links?

My blog went up from PR2 to P3. Works for me!

I do have to tell everyone that PR is a weird thing. Mine was PR2 in the last big update (last year?), and stayed that way for a while. Until going to PR0 a few months ago. Then, 2 weeks later back up to PR2. Then, 2 weeks later back down to PR0. Then, another 2 weeks later, back up to PR2.

That's where it seemed to settle at for a while…until this update it went up to PR3.

Anyway, congrats to those who also got increases, and sympathies to those who saw a drop. Regardless, keep in mind that PR can be fickle and it's not the end all be all anyway. I'm not going to get too excitied about it, and recommend that you don't focus too much on it either. But that being said, if yours increased you might as well leverage it to the max when working with advertisers!

Family Money Values went from 0 to 3 – hope it stays!!

I'm just happy that the site that lost PR wasn't one I was counting on for anything important.   It would have been nice to have LRN go up to 4, but at least half a dozen individual pages have jumped to PR3, too.  Beats losing rank.

Even my challenger blog, Dining Out Challenge, went to a 2 from a 0.  Like that!

Now here's the thing…If Google is handing out PR rankings like candy at Christmas, will this degrade value?  A site that I built and webmaster for a client is at PR5 now and it's only been live since December.  Granted, he gets tons of traffic.  Anyway, just working it out in my mind.

@Sandy – mozRank and PR usually mirror each other pretty closely from what I can tell +/- 1.  To me it seems Google is giving out PR yes, but many sites on Yakezie, IMO, should have PR due to some of the strategies employed by the group (post swaps, round ups, carnivals).

Thanks Sandy. I just checked mine and I moved to a 4. I am surprised.