Comments on: Breaking: Google Drops EVERYONE’S PageRank To ZERO?

By: Rampa

Rampa — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 14:25:02 +0000

After reading your blog, I especially like this entry (ing: Google Drops EVERYONE’S PageRank To ZERO? : The Blog Herald).

By: Richard Johnson

Richard Johnson — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 12:05:56 +0000

It’s pretty weird. I know that it’v got all my sites cross-linked (okay this isn’t a blog), but every single one is swhoing pr of zero. It takes me about a year to get good serps on a site (trying to do it the natural way etc) and I do cross link between my sites and submit articles linking back to my sites, and swap links etc etc, but it’s all organic and I do try to avoid black hat techniques. Thing is, my sites haven’t moved in their serps and I’ve seen just as much activity as I normally do. Reckon this has to be a way of Google getting rid of a very abused tool. How many links are sold on the basis of the hosts PR? Reckon it could kill a whole industry here. Good idea to kill off PR? I think so. Sort of levels the playing field a bit.

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By: CompuWorld

CompuWorld — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 12:31:59 +0000

yeah mine also is zero but the little plugin I use in firefox which shows the pagerank in the status bar shows the right pagerank.

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By: Myla

Myla — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 02:45:25 +0000

i would like to believe that is’s just a broken PR tool.

oh please let it be just a broken PR tool not “Google singles out PPP”.

By: Tony Hung

Tony Hung — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 23:38:47 +0000

Georganna — thanks for the info. There have been a few sites that have indeed been swept up as collateral damage with the most recent correction. As you have never had any paid postings or dealings with PPP, I wonder if you’re in such a group. Try and ask to be re-appraised by Google through the Webmaster dashboard if there’s no wrong-doing, and keep your fingers crossed. If we hear of anything new, we’ll post it here. Good luck!

By: Georganna Hancock

Georganna Hancock — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 22:54:33 +0000

ALL PR tools display a zero for A Writer’s Edge blog (formerly known as “5″). Not guilty of supposed violations, nothing has changed except daily post. Is there a light at the end of this gloomy tunnel? Will I get back lost advertising? Avoid blogicide?

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By: ben

ben — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 19:49:37 +0000

BROKEN PR checker tool… PRs are just fine for all those sites (checked with numerous other tools)

so yeah… technical glitch.. don’t rely on just 1 site next time… cross check.

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 19:13:19 +0000

My site registered a PR 0, as did a few others I checked, but then mine (PR5) and the others showed their regular page ranks on the Google Toolbar. How odd…

By: Tony Hung

Tony Hung — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 18:56:58 +0000

Ionut,

Fair enough — so what am I seeing then? Is it a data center glitch?

By: Ionut

Ionut — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 18:39:29 +0000

Did you check the toolbar (the only official way to find Google PR for a site)? I guess not.

By: Tony Hung

Tony Hung — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 18:10:18 +0000

Michael,

Checked the following:
http://www.checkpagerank.com/
http://www.smartpagerank.com

and a few others.

You’re right though, in that some still display the right pagerank, and a few of them will say “service inactive”.

By: Tony Hung

Tony Hung — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 18:03:59 +0000

Yep — I do think that this is an issue of Google recalibrating its PageRank.

What’s interesting is that this kind of correction has happened twice in the span of weeks, when public PageRank adjustments usually take months — some have lasted as long (longer?) than 6 months.

One wonders what’s going on at Google these days with the frequent changes / updates.

By: Jordan Mitchell

Jordan Mitchell — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 17:59:49 +0000

(but I agree that it’s probably a glitch. Wouldn’t it be cool though if it wasn’t? If you take away the score, then what’s the goal? — especially given personalized search results.)

By: Jordan Mitchell

Jordan Mitchell — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 17:56:32 +0000

I used 3 different tools, such as Check Page Rank, What’s my Page Rank, and Smart Page Rank. I checked 5-10 different sites, including my own and popular sites such as WSJ and Techcrunch. All zero.

By: Aaron B. Hockley

Aaron B. Hockley — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 17:43:48 +0000

A much more likely scenario is that there’s a technical glitch…

By: Michael VanDeMar

Michael VanDeMar — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 17:39:21 +0000

Tony, I don’t see it. I checked manually and using multi-datacenter tools, and everything looks fine. What method did you use to see the PageRank of these sites?

By: DazzlinDonna

DazzlinDonna — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 17:38:44 +0000

Sounds more like a case of a broken PR tool to me.