July 2008 PageRank Update - An early analysis

As Matt Cutts said a few days back on his blog, the July 2008 Google PageRank Update had commenced. Already seeing the results at few places, including here! ROCKFUSE went from PR-N/A to PR3 today. What do I think of it? Oh well… I expected to do a little bit better after iWebTool PageRank prediction told me with a 84% accuracy that it’ll be at least PR5. But guess Google has a funny way it’s own way of doing things.

It seems like I’m not the only one to blog about the aftermath of the update this early - mind you, the update is still going on, so I don’t mean to be the one who takes the initiative to disturb the hornets’ nest - though someone surely will within this week!

To get the full picture, we will have to wait a little. Certain pages in ROCKFUSE which are ranking quite well still shows N/A. I don’t know whether this has the potency of changing - or whether Google is not finished yet with the whole cha-cha.

It was announced that few penalties would be lifted from Google’s side when giving the new PR. Though Mr.Cutts wasn’t specific, he might have referred to the biggest penalization there is - “Selling Text Links”. But don’t be so eager to buy that since few weeks back TLA(Text-Link-Ads) - which is the biggest Text Link Ad marketplace in the world was banned from Google.

Let’s keep our eyes open and see where this goes.