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Ask HN: Notice a jump in Page Rank today?

21 points by newmediaclay 18y ago

Looks like Google updated their Page Rank today for the first time since September 08. I know our site jumped to a 6. Anyone else notice a bump?

newmediaclay 18y ago
Yea, we jumped to a 6 and blogged about A New Year a New Page Rank. http://www.newmediacampaigns.com/page/page-rank-updated-in-december-2008 http://www.newmediacampaigns.com/page/page-rank-updated-in-d... I think submitting to Yahoo and getting some press for our microsite were the biggest factors. We also put footers on the bottom of our sites linking back to us which can't hurt
tokenadult 18y ago
Can someone see if the Friendly Atheist (that phrase just written out as two words) now returns Hemant Mehta's blog site as the first result? For a while he was way back on the second page of results, even though he should plainly be in first place. (I used the wiki tools to modify results for that search on Google, so I can't tell if there has been an improvement.) I see a mixture of better and worse results with my usual torture-test searches. It still looks like brief entries on blogs get page rank that is too high compared to more substantive articles, presumably because they get lots of inbound links.
- epi0Bauqu 18y ago
  Nope. It returns wordpress.com/tag/friendly-atheist/. Note that if you delete your searchWiki changes, it will revert to the original order.
  - tlrobinson 18y ago
    Or, you know, log out.
epi0Bauqu 18y ago
Yup, 4 :) (for duckduckgo.com & gabrielweinberg.com)
axod 18y ago
Where is the definitive place to assess ones pagerank? edit: http://www.prchecker.info/check_page_rank.php http://www.prchecker.info/check_page_rank.php Looks like Mibbit is a 7 :)
jhancock 18y ago
yep, my yet unmarketed shellshadow.com is from 2 to 3 now. 2009, the year of inflation ;)
mg1313 18y ago
No changes for my wesite :(...I guess I need more link development and more updates to the site.
- fallentimes 18y ago
  Have new content daily/weekly has been huge for us especially as organic traffic is concerned.
gscott 18y ago
From 3 to a 4 although another site I maintain stayed a 3 so it wasn't a universal jump.
catone 18y ago
I think it actually happened a few days ago. I noticed a jump last week.
PStamatiou 18y ago
went from a 7 to a 4. wtf? i blame my bbPress forums, which I didn't realize for a while didnt no follow links until i hacked the theme a bit to no follow.
fallentimes 18y ago
Woohoo http://ticketstumbler.com http://ticketstumbler.com is now a 5!
- fuelfive 18y ago
  Congrats! Same with the frog. Posterous and CO2Stats are up to 6 now, wtg guys.
merrick33 18y ago
Matt Cutts officially confirmed a pagerank increase yesterday on twitter - http://twitter.com/mattcutts/status/1087531183 http://twitter.com/mattcutts/status/1087531183
Eliezer 18y ago
http://www.overcomingbias.com http://www.overcomingbias.com 7... we get a lot of random incoming Google traffic. Though it's worth noting that our traffic stats fell off a cliff over winter break, for some odd reason. Anyone else seen this? Or is it just that OB is commonly read as a procrastinating substitute for school/work? Holiday cliff: http://www.sitemeter.com/?a=stats&s=s28overcomingbias&r=12 http://www.sitemeter.com/?a=stats&s=s28overcomingbias&#3...
- axod 18y ago
  Mibbit fell off a cliff also. Just starting to recover...
- fallentimes 18y ago
  We witnessed this as well and a similar, but much shorter trend over Thanksgiving. I would guess it's due to people dealing with holiday stuff and not being at work. My parents still don't believe me that most people don't do anything at work for significant chunks of the day (or in some cases all day). Traffic is usually best for TicketStumbler Tuesday - Thursday and worst on Saturday & Sunday.
wheels 18y ago
Went from 4 to 5.
bd 18y ago
Still the same. Though PR doesn't really seem to matter that much anymore. My site with PR 0 gets much more traffic from Google than my site with PR 4.
parenthesis 18y ago
Does anything apart from google.com have a page rank of 10?
- EGF 18y ago
  usa.gov is the only one I know. Adobe and Apple used to have PR 10s but they are now 9
EGF 18y ago
No change for me on my sites - hopefully its a rolling change
sachinag 18y ago
http://www.dawdle.com http://www.dawdle.com dropped from a 6 to a 5. Not happy, since all our inbound links are from October 2008-onwards. They're not that old.
ejs 18y ago
Nope, still at zero for me... really need to work on that ;)
paul9290 18y ago
Does anyone here use grader.website.com on Hubspot? It perplexes me that my site receives a much higher grade then my competitors, yet their page rank is higher (we have more inbound links then they do). Is Hubspot's grader reliable?
hs 18y ago
will a google search query increase page rank? for example if i search "ycombinator startup" then google (PR10) will produce links (no rel=nofollow in <a href>) i think that will increase search volume index in google trend, but not sure about page rank

21 points by newmediaclay 18y ago

Looks like Google updated their Page Rank today for the first time since September 08. I know our site jumped to a 6. Anyone else notice a bump?

newmediaclay 18y ago

Yea, we jumped to a 6 and blogged about A New Year a New Page Rank. http://www.newmediacampaigns.com/page/page-rank-updated-in-december-2008 http://www.newmediacampaigns.com/page/page-rank-updated-in-d... I think submitting to Yahoo and getting some press for our microsite were the biggest factors. We also put footers on the bottom of our sites linking back to us which can't hurt

tokenadult 18y ago

Can someone see if the Friendly Atheist (that phrase just written out as two words) now returns Hemant Mehta's blog site as the first result? For a while he was way back on the second page of results, even though he should plainly be in first place. (I used the wiki tools to modify results for that search on Google, so I can't tell if there has been an improvement.) I see a mixture of better and worse results with my usual torture-test searches. It still looks like brief entries on blogs get page rank that is too high compared to more substantive articles, presumably because they get lots of inbound links.

epi0Bauqu 18y ago
Nope. It returns wordpress.com/tag/friendly-atheist/. Note that if you delete your searchWiki changes, it will revert to the original order.
- tlrobinson 18y ago
  Or, you know, log out.

epi0Bauqu 18y ago

Yup, 4 :) (for duckduckgo.com & gabrielweinberg.com)

axod 18y ago

Where is the definitive place to assess ones pagerank? edit: http://www.prchecker.info/check_page_rank.php http://www.prchecker.info/check_page_rank.php Looks like Mibbit is a 7 :)

jhancock 18y ago

yep, my yet unmarketed shellshadow.com is from 2 to 3 now. 2009, the year of inflation ;)

mg1313 18y ago

No changes for my wesite :(...I guess I need more link development and more updates to the site.

fallentimes 18y ago
Have new content daily/weekly has been huge for us especially as organic traffic is concerned.

gscott 18y ago

From 3 to a 4 although another site I maintain stayed a 3 so it wasn't a universal jump.

catone 18y ago

I think it actually happened a few days ago. I noticed a jump last week.

PStamatiou 18y ago

went from a 7 to a 4. wtf? i blame my bbPress forums, which I didn't realize for a while didnt no follow links until i hacked the theme a bit to no follow.

fallentimes 18y ago

Woohoo http://ticketstumbler.com http://ticketstumbler.com is now a 5!

fuelfive 18y ago
Congrats! Same with the frog. Posterous and CO2Stats are up to 6 now, wtg guys.

merrick33 18y ago

Matt Cutts officially confirmed a pagerank increase yesterday on twitter - http://twitter.com/mattcutts/status/1087531183 http://twitter.com/mattcutts/status/1087531183

Eliezer 18y ago

http://www.overcomingbias.com http://www.overcomingbias.com 7... we get a lot of random incoming Google traffic. Though it's worth noting that our traffic stats fell off a cliff over winter break, for some odd reason. Anyone else seen this? Or is it just that OB is commonly read as a procrastinating substitute for school/work? Holiday cliff: http://www.sitemeter.com/?a=stats&s=s28overcomingbias&r=12 http://www.sitemeter.com/?a=stats&s=s28overcomingbias&#3...

axod 18y ago
Mibbit fell off a cliff also. Just starting to recover...
fallentimes 18y ago
We witnessed this as well and a similar, but much shorter trend over Thanksgiving. I would guess it's due to people dealing with holiday stuff and not being at work. My parents still don't believe me that most people don't do anything at work for significant chunks of the day (or in some cases all day). Traffic is usually best for TicketStumbler Tuesday - Thursday and worst on Saturday & Sunday.

wheels 18y ago

Went from 4 to 5.

bd 18y ago

Still the same. Though PR doesn't really seem to matter that much anymore. My site with PR 0 gets much more traffic from Google than my site with PR 4.

parenthesis 18y ago

Does anything apart from google.com have a page rank of 10?

EGF 18y ago
usa.gov is the only one I know. Adobe and Apple used to have PR 10s but they are now 9

EGF 18y ago

No change for me on my sites - hopefully its a rolling change

sachinag 18y ago

http://www.dawdle.com http://www.dawdle.com dropped from a 6 to a 5. Not happy, since all our inbound links are from October 2008-onwards. They're not that old.

ejs 18y ago

Nope, still at zero for me... really need to work on that ;)

paul9290 18y ago

Does anyone here use grader.website.com on Hubspot? It perplexes me that my site receives a much higher grade then my competitors, yet their page rank is higher (we have more inbound links then they do). Is Hubspot's grader reliable?

hs 18y ago

will a google search query increase page rank? for example if i search "ycombinator startup" then google (PR10) will produce links (no rel=nofollow in <a href>) i think that will increase search volume index in google trend, but not sure about page rank