How’s Google Treating Your Site?

Google’s making changes and the Page Rank for many sites is going up — or down.

Say what?

Code Monkey at vbModder says the Page Rank on his site has been nuts for the past couple of days. He said, on January 23:

This current Page Ranking export looks like it ended without completing. Lets take vBulletin Modder for example.

Our front page went to Page Ranking 4. It’s predicted at 6 which is meaningless, but with a three month old snapshot PR 4 would probably right for the toolbar. However, our forums are still PR 2. And the google webmaster site keeps switching between the two as the top PR page and has been since before the alleged snapshot date.

On top of that, we have newer forums that are now Page Ranking 4 and contain posts that are PR 4. Which would indicate the result of a front page at 6 and a forum home at 5 or 6. Then , we have older forums from when I started this site that still have 0 PR. What the heck is that. And to add insult to injury, (but I will take the PR) we have an archive page for a forum that has two threads that is a PR 5. This is bleepin nuts if you ask me.

There are authority sites out there right not that have 10’s of thousands of backlinks that were Page Ranking 7 before this export that now have 0. Something is seriously wrong and the bad part is it’s costing people money.

The updates appear to be done now — and I’m happy. This site used to rank 0, but now it’s a 4. Woohoo!

My vbMojo site was a 0 when I created it Dec. 5, 2006 — but now  in February 2006 it’s ranked 3. I’ll take that for two month’s work.

So, how’re your sites doing?