PageRank Update: To Follow or Not To Follow?

Written by Pablo Palatnik on January 13, 2008


A Pagerank toolbar update was announced last week, this was the first one announced this year since the big update very late last year which scared the bejesus out of everyone buying links.

It may be a coincidence or not, My Pagerank fell from a 3 to a 2 on Saturday. This blog has been around for 8 months now having some good incoming links, never purchasing a link, and following all links.

It was on Friday when for the first time ever, I decided to use ONLY two no-follow links on this blog and that’s both to the footer links which link to the wordpress theme and some web hosting which I could easily remove those links, but I don’t.

What could have caused this demotion in Pagerank? Any pagerank updates on anyones site? It’s doubtful my no-follow, even though taken out, could have caused this but is it a possibility? In my opinion, no…probably not.

Also, one change I have made since about a week ago through the recommendation of Grey was add the ‘continue reading’ option of the blog so the Google bots don’t read my site as having duplicate content in two different URLS (home page and story urls.)

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  1. 3 Responses to “PageRank Update: To Follow or Not To Follow?”

  2. {From Sphinn}

    I think it was just a coincidence that you PR dropped a point. Adding a no-followed link shouldn’t make any difference. There is, of course, speculation that linking OUT to prominent sites will help boost your pagerank, but it can’t matter for too long –because Google is practically telling everyone to stop linking without nofollow.

    Another factor is that it takes quite a while for their algorithm to complete its processing and your recent change was most likely not taken into account for the latest updte.

    Plus, it’s been a trend for more than a year that all of the sites seem to be “equalizing” in PageRank anyway. Realistically, this is how it should’ve been all along. An average, somewhat popular blog should only be a 1, 2, or maybe 3 in any index. When considered next to sites that deserve an index of 5,6,7 or 8, it shouldn’t be a typical blog. It should be cnn, amazon, or the likes. That’s my humble opinion, anyway. ;)

    By brandon on Jan 14, 2008

  3. {From Sphinn}

    “What could have caused this demotion in Pagerank? Any pagerank updates on anyones site?”

    One possibility, which Matt Cutts pointed out, is that links in the SEO niche are passing less value that before.

    By HalfDeck on Jan 14, 2008

  4. Where can i found a List History is a list of the dates that Page rank was updated.
    Edit - http://www.sarkipedia.com/sarki/e3.php

    By Sarkipedia, Edit on Jan 15, 2008

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