Yet Another Pagerank Update - Normalized Differently?

and Barry Schwartz are reporting today that there is yet another Toolbar PR update.

When the Jan. 9 update hit, it only appeared to affect older, established sites. Most of my sites 18 months or older had some changes last time around, but none of my newer pages had any changes. This blog, for instance, which is nearly a year old remained at a solid PR0.

This latest update appears to affecting more sites. *All* of my older, established sites dropped PR by a point while new pages, such as this blog, finally got their first Toolbar PR value.

The fact that the PR dropped on the older pages, which have only been growing over time, leads me to wonder if perhaps the displayed PR values have been normalized differently this time around. For example, does a new PR3 signify a higher ranking than a PR5 may have a year ago?

Many of my pages which were previously PR5 are now PR3-PR4, despite major increases in relevant links from a variety of *trusted* sources. I find it hard to believe that these pages could have *lost* value over time in the eyes of Google. I am not so confident to believe that it is totally impossible that my pages could ahve gone down in quality over time, yet the fact that this trend appears across *all* my pages seems to indicate that something has changed.

Have you noticed anything different? What kinds of gains / losses have you seen this time around.

1 Comment so far

  1. dudu @ January 28th, 2007

    I noticed it too.
    My site went from PR4 to PR5. And the others went from PR0 to PR2 and PR3.
    I really liked last week news from Google.

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