Look how old this is! I post at SearchCommander.com now, and this post was published 17 years 2 months ago. This industry changes FAST, so blindly following the advice here *may not* be a good idea! If you're at all unsure, feel free to hit me up on Twitter and ask.
With a typical PR update, the data used is usually older, and it’s always been my belief that it’s at least three months old. With today’s update, however, I’m finding some pages that have PR that are a little bit fresher…
For example, nearly every single post on SEMpdx from September now has some PR. Here’s the last post on the SEMpdx blog from October 1 that has PR – Win a free pass to SES LA
But here’s one from October 4th that has 33 Sphinns, (presumably a lot of links too), and it’s still showing a PR 0.
Finally, here’s a post from October 8 which we KNOW has a ton of inbound links from highly relevant and respected websites that still shows a PR zero.
So, isn’t is reasonable to assume that the toolbar has been updated with data pulled sometime between October 1 and October 4th?
Gee, knowing this to be the case can give a bit of an advantage to those that know how to determine the value of an inbound link, don’t ya think?
What’s the newest page you see anywhere on the web that has PR?
Here, please allow me to leave the first comment…
Stop obsessing over PR you idiot; it means nothing for your ranking and you should not waste your time worrying about it (unless you’re placing links…). Now get back to work! – Scott H. – 😉
It’s mental! Our site is only 7 months old but we have LOTs of very nice links and no page rank even to stories that garnered some very nice links. That said, remember that we intentionally bled out page rank by aggressive outbound linking early in the blog’s life.
You have to give up your blood to clickbait and linkbait authority bloggers and invite them to the party….so to speak.
Thanks for the link and case study.
I also get Oct 1st as the latest page with rank (pages on Oct 2nd have none).
I don’t know how old the info is… What I do know is that The site has been around since mid May and I finally got PR (2). I used to get all stressed out about PR. I thought an SEO site without PR seemed bogus.
That was until I discovered that only the SEO crowd and designers seem to know about PR. My clients have no idea what it is. None of them use the Google toolbar. So it was only an issue for me. So since the site is very well positioned for SEO in my market, Tucson, I gave up worrying about it. I figured actual search ranking were more important. However, I did a happy dance when I noticed my PR today… All that linking finally paid off.
That’s a great way to guess the update date.
Marty, you’re not talking about the blog, are you? I show PR.
John, yep, I’ve poked around and see none newer than 10/1.
Boris, thanks for commenting. yeah, but people are getting more savvy, and 0 pr looks bad. Hmm… I tried to visit your site and notice it fails with a server error unless you manually type in the www. Hmm, sounds like you could use Isapi_rewrite for your Windows hosting server.
I.E. just wingin’ it every day
Yes, This linking profile only earns PR3.