Posted on Tuesday 1st of May 2007 at 06:29 in The Internet

Google Pagerank update with some very odd results

Over the past few days Google has been updating the Pageranks for the sites it indexes and there have been some "oddities" that I'm happy to elaborate on.

Around December I was upgraded from a Pagerank of 0 to 3, something I was rather happy about after having been published in numerous places like LinuxToday. I was accepted into 9rules in December too so felt that by the time the next update was due - I'd be ready to move up again.

I did, Seopher.com is now appearing as PR5. Good news? Well, it would be if Google wasn't handing out Pagerank like it was going out of style.

New sites with PR4?
I started a motoring blog called TorqueToday only a month ago and have only posted a few pieces of content on there. TorqueToday is now listed as having PR4 while I would have expected a PR0. A friend - AndrewSellick.com is also a newcomer and while he has experienced excellent levels of traffic recently; I assumed a PR2 would be his best chance given the relative age of the site. He too has gained a PR4.

Oli at ThePCSpy has stayed PR5 despite being esablished for many years and enjoying plenty of traffic. Even a friend of mine's site (Ash-graphics) which remains largely untouched was awarded a PR3 - an odd decision considering it barely has any backlinks or content.

So some slightly odd judgements made this time around I think it's fair to say but I won't complain much longer - I am PR5 now after all and that's only going to help me move forwards. I just can't help but think that sites like TorqueToday don't deserve to be PR4 - and I run the site! There are no backlinks besides this site and very little content.

It's an odd world Google is creating... Very odd indeed.

 

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