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Google Pagerank Slap
Morning Everybody
So our good friends Google are at it again it seems, this time the “slap” is with pagerank. I just happened to be checking some of my new sites and noticed some very healthy pagerank numbers so obviously was quite pleased. However when I checked some of my more established sites and they had all taken a hit, just by 1, from 5 to 4 or 4 to 3.
Anyway immediately got out the jungle drums and pretty much everyone I have spoken to have taken similar hits so it looks like it might be an across the board thing. We all know it was more difficult to get from pr4 to pr5 than it was from 1 to 2, 2-3 etc but it looks like maybe they have made it harder from 3-4 as well now.
Not really concerned as if everyone is in the same boat its a level playing field right. Maybe they could be putting even more emphasis on age too. Most of the sites that took a hit were less than a year old. However I actually bought a domain a few months back which had some existing links, only about 6 or 7 with google, no pagerank and put up a site on it 3 weeks ago.
Well that homepage has already got a pagerank of 4!!! And 6 out of the 7 other pages have pr 3!! I haven’t even started to build links really just a few blog post and
some article submissions. I guess I’ll be looking at some more existing domains to buy!! Anyway love to hear any observations you have on the latest pagerank update. But please no debate as to whether pagerank matters, I think that has been done to death right!?!?!? Just any ups or downs you might have had in the last few days. Post a comment or email me at
Take Care
Richard Henderson
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Yeah, I was very disturbed till I noticed that all the other sites in my industries had also lost a PR point. I am thrilled to see here that it isn’t just our industry, but the Web as a whole.
One thing I am wondering. If you lost a PR point on an old established site, then will it take longer to get new pages indexed too?
Yes, you are right, there was a PR slap for old sites.
I made a new web site for 2 months and it got PR4, but my old site (2 years old) is gone from 5 to 4. 
Well I seem to have been lucky to escape the “slap”. My main page maintained its PR4 as well as my internal pages their PR3 and the new pages I had added all got a PR3.
As you say it is not easy to get from PR4 to PR5.