If you notice in my previous posts, PageRank has been a big issue lately.  The 9/26/2008 PR update had some major problems, some of which included pages only days old getting assigned PR.  It appears Google has responded to this outcry and has rolled back the PR to its previous state on 9/25/2008.

At first there was a lot of commotion about the 9/26/2008 PR update.  Many deserving Websites lost PR and new pages, not even a week old, gained PR.  After some thought, I wonder if the PR update we saw was Google’s internal PR being exported.  The evidence seems to point in that direction.

While many people say PR only matters if you sell links, that could not be further from the truth.  PR is a status symbol and one way to quickly determine the authority of any Website.

Google has taken a positive step in correcting last weeks toolbar PR export blunder.  There are some average surfers that use PR as a gauge to trust a Website or not.  And by doing this PR rollback, until the problems can be corrected, is best for everyone involved - including Google.

Tags: PageRank Rollback, PR Rollback

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