Alex Sains on 11 Jan 2007 09:23 pm
PageRank update dropping big sites to PR0
Well, there’s been a recent PageRank update (which may still be taking place). The strange thing about this update, though, is that several pretty large websites (for example, AOL.com, Digg.com, 9rules.com, and unlimitedgamer.net), have lost all their PageRank for no apparent reason. I noticed that some of these sites were advertising Text-Link-Ads.com, but I have seen other now PR0 websites and weblogs which have nothing to do with T-L-A.com.
Why might the PR have dropped?
It seems strange that such bigs sites have lost their entire PR for no reason. Another thing is that the ranking and indexing of these sites seems to have remained relatively similar to prior to the update. It could be that these sites are linking out to bad neighbourhoods, but that doesn’t really weigh up if you look at what they are linking to.
Is PR now defunct? At least partially? Perhaps. Comments would be helpful!
on 12 Jan 2007 at 12:10 am 1.Roman Nastenko said …
I think the PageRank update is currently going… so wait some time simply
on 12 Jan 2007 at 6:15 pm 2.Alex Sains said …
The update normally all happens in ‘one go’, though. It doesn’t make sense that some sites have normal PR updates and others are dropped to 0.