Directory PR update!

[yellowsubmarine]

Looks like google updated it's directory PR again. Could be a precursor to toolbar PR update...

What do you all think?

[Thermit]

Seems a bit early, but I wouldn't complain!

;)

[joker]

Google's directory very often is misleading...

[hugoguzman]

It's not misleading...it simply works on a different scale than the toolbar PR.

The toolbar PR works on a ten point scale (1-10)
The directory PR works on a 7 point scale (1-7)

By the way, I don't think we'll see a toolbar PR update until early April...

[puravida]

I agree... late march or early april for the next update.

It's always a guess, though, because G is constantly trying to throw people off. I even see now that sites show in backlink checks that do not really link to the sites.

This seems to me to make the "link:" command in Google virtually worthless now (from a lack of trust perspective), but I suppose that's another topic. ;)

-Wesley

[smo]

What way the directory update will affect? Any change in traffic or toolbar rank change?

[eadpro]

Remember that "visual" PR updates (whether on the toolbar or the directory) are simply a gauge of your sites potency. "Visual" PR does not affect serps in any way.

[Thermit]

Yep, visual PR updates are just a more recent view into the actual PR that was probably already being used by the algorithm.

[joker]

What way the directory update will affect?
It will affect only directory sites' disposition

[eadpro]

it's "position"...web sites don't have a "disposition" (they aren't human) ; )

[hugoguzman]

What way the directory update will affect? Any change in traffic or toolbar rank change?
Directory PR updates are usually a good gauge of what will happen to your toolbar PR ranking.

If your directory PR went up, there's a good chance that your toolbar PR will do the same...

[joker]

The probability of this is rather high but not the guarantee...

[hugoguzman]

I haven't done enough systematic testing to disagree with you, but I will say that every time one of my site's PR has moved up on the directories 7 point scale it subsequently moves up when the toolbar updates it's PR rankings.

[dazzlindonna]

Just to differ... :)

My toolbar PR never matches the PR changes in the directory. It changes in the directory...and no changes take place in the next toolbar update. Go figure. This has happened 3 times now for 2 sites of mine. I have ZERO trust in the directory PR.