{"id":39544,"date":"2013-12-07T21:50:36","date_gmt":"2013-12-07T16:20:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/?p=39544"},"modified":"2020-05-24T11:05:15","modified_gmt":"2020-05-24T05:35:15","slug":"google-toolbar-pagerank-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2013\/12\/google-toolbar-pagerank-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Toolbar PageRank Update!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new Google pagerank update happened and the Google toolbar is reflecting pagerank change information for millions of websites. If you recall Google has not been refreshing pagerank for over 10 months now and several SEO experts thought that pagerank would be discontinued altogether.<\/p>\n<h2>Google \u00a0PageRank Update!<\/h2>\n<p>Google pagerank has been an important indicator for website importance in eyes of Google and top sites often get a PR9 or PR10 ranking. SEO firms often try to buy backlinks and try tactics to game pagerank to showcase higher pagerank for their clients. But with so many Google penalties being pushed across last 2 years, Google failed to refresh the pagerank data, encouraging webmasters to concentrate more on make sites better, rather than try to get better pagerank by blackhat SEO.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/M7glS_ehpGY\" height=\"375\" width=\"500\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Remember how Google used to penalize websites engaged in buying \/selling links by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2007\/10\/paid-text-links-cause-of-huge-google-pagerank-penalties\/\">reducing pageranks<\/a>. Still several <a title=\"Find Toxic Backlinks with Link Detox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2013\/04\/find-toxic-backlinks-link-detox\/\">toxic link detection tools<\/a> evaluate parameters to find PR0 or PR grayed out websites, which could be bad neighborhoods to link to.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Google did push a PR update<\/strong> &#8211; Matt Cutts <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mattcutts\/status\/409041994707517440\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">confirms<\/a> this PR update and says that a PR push was done while fixing a backend service that handles &#8216;dupes and equivalent names&#8217;, and pagerank still continues to be less of a priority for Google.<\/p>\n<p><strong>So what happened to our pagerank?<\/strong> Well it seems to be still stable at PR5 , though we <a title=\"How We Removed 1.7 Million BackLinks and Survived\" href=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2013\/09\/removed-million-backlinks\/\">removed 1.7 million backlinks<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-39545\" alt=\"pagerank update\" src=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/pagerank-update.png\" width=\"360\" height=\"167\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/pagerank-update.png 360w, https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/pagerank-update-150x69.png 150w, https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/pagerank-update-300x139.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>How to check your toolbar pagerank?<\/strong>\u00a0You can download the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/toolbar\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google toobar<\/a> on IE, or grab PR Checker Chrome extensions and check pagerank of any page.<\/p>\n<p>Has your pagerank changed?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new Google pagerank update happened and the Google toolbar is reflecting pagerank change information for millions of websites. 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