It looks like Google is going through and doing another update. SEOGurl went up to a pr1 - not bad for a site that I don’t write nearly as much as I should on! My personal site got knocked down. I’m not selling links, but I do have a lot of outbound ones, and haven’t done anything to build new inbound ones. Nor do I write as often as I should…so there’s really no surprise that it went down.

At any rate, let me know if the update has hurt or helped you - it’s interesting to see what’s going on in the mind of Google…not that we every really know!

I noticed the other day that Google did a quasi-update for pageranks. I didn’t notice any sites go up in pr, but a bunch got knocked waayyy down. Rand Fishkin pointed out on seomoz that one theory is that Google was perhaps targeting sites that sell links. There is a list of sites that show their page ranks before and after the update. Some got knocked from a 9 to a 6. Crazy! (Forbes went from a 7 to a 5!)

At any rate, I’m sure Google will do another update to adjust this, and also to raise the pr’s of other sites. We’ll see when (and if) this happens - it will be interesting to see. Maybe seogurl will move up from a pr0.

I will say, however, that I don’t think Google’s “pagerank” system is that important. (Ok, that probably sounds lame considering I just admitted seogurl is a 0…but I think most seo’s will agree.) Google even admits that it doesn’t really reflect the true value of the website - it’s just an estimated indicator of it. I think this is especially true since it’s been so long since Google did an update. Now, I know that seogurl is a pretty new website, and doesn’t have a ton of content, so most likely the pr will stay 0 for a while. I’m not too concerned about that…I’ll just try to develop good content, and eventually the pr will reflect that.