Google PR Update
Google updated their PR two nights ago. It was totally unexpected for me – I was looking at one of my sites to see if a specific page’s PR had changed, and realized the whole site had changed. This site is now a PR 4 (it was 3 in April). This is particularly encouraging to me, because I spent May writing posts, not link building. Hopefully, this means that actually working on your site counts for something, and it’s not just all about making connections.
One of my other sites that’s been laying dormant for a long time jumped from PR 0 to PR 2, and it happened just as I’ve put a new project on it. It has no backlinks, so I’m not sure what the PR is based on. Possibly the length of time the domain has been around? Maybe the fact that when it went dormant, it was a blog with two posts? I have no idea.
My two affiliate marketing sites remain unchanged: one at PR 0 and the other at PR 3. That gives me pause. They’re both clearly experiencing that “sandbox” effect right now, so I feel that it’ll be months before I can be sure either of them is just simply a loser. But I’m not going to waste time trying to improve them when I don’t even know for sure that anything’s wrong. That’s the frustrating thing with affiliate sites – it takes months to see the results from any changes you make.
Another couple of sites stayed steady. But all my sites are reporting more backlinks than they were before, so that’s good news. Even if the sites linking to me aren’t high enough in PR to boost me, maybe they will be someday, and I’ll still be attached.
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