Google PageRank Update Underway

First, let me make it very clear that this really means nothing because:

1. The toolbar PR is just a snapshot of a page’s current PR. Google regularly updates all its ranking factors, but only updates the public number every so often.
2. There are so many factors other than PageRank that determine where your page ranks in a search. It’s nice to see, but don’t get obessed with it.

The “toolbar PR” (the PR that Google reports for a page, versus the actual PR that they use in rankings) is fun to watch, particularly as you’re growing a site, but it means next to nothing. There are so many cases where a higher PR page ranks lower than a page with a much lower PR that you would think people would have caught on by now, but people still obsess.

That said, you can use this tool to check a page’s current PageRank:

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Update

Great post by Matt Cutts answering a lot of questions about PR and about this PR update specifically.