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Haven't heard anyone mention that the page ranks were updated yesterday!!!
Some of my internal pages lost thier rank altogether, while other gained PR for the first time...

My hompage stayed the same.

Did anyone notice any changes with thier website?

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observed the kind of toolbar swings that cause confusion, and was right that updates can appear uneven as they propagate. A few clarifying points and a short diagnosis checklist will help narrow down whether this is a transient toolbar update or something that needs fixing.

  • Use Google Search Console (Links and Coverage reports) to see which external pages point to the affected URLs and whether those URLs are indexed.
  • Verify each affected page for stray directives: rel="canonical" pointing elsewhere, meta robots "noindex", or X-Robots-Tag headers. A quick header/status check:
    curl -I -L https://example.com/your-page
  • Look for recent template or sitewide changes (footer/header links removed or marked nofollow) and any 301/302 redirect chains that started after your last change.
  • Check internal linking: pages that lose contextual internal links often lose value to deeper pages. Use a crawler (Screaming Frog, site audit tool) to map internal link flow and orphan pages.
  • Inspect backlink changes with Search Console and one third-party tool to confirm whether incoming links were removed or changed.

Longer-term actions: prioritize building and keeping targeted links to the inner pages you want to rank, and strengthen contextual internal links from relevant landing pages rather than relying on sitewide footer/menu links. Fix canonical/redirect/noindex issues first — those are common causes of sudden redistribution. Keep sitemaps up to date and monitor the Search Console "Inspect URL" and Coverage reports for crawl/index problems.

Toolbar PageRank is a coarse, lagging public metric; focus on Search Console signals and organic traffic/position changes instead of the toolbar number alone. For how Google crawls and ranks pages, see Google’s overview: How Search Works and start diagnostics in Search Console.

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Member Avatar for cooluks

Actually it started days ago...

On various datacenters of Google update..

Member Avatar for mitz

Do you think the changes I have seen to my website are final for now or will more changes happen over a certain time?

Member Avatar for Dani

Nothing for me. I introduced a couple new landing pages last month, so if anything big happened, they would have gotten some toolbar love.

Member Avatar for mitz

The term "landing pages" is this something you concentrate your SEO on? I have not idea..

Member Avatar for Dani

Landing pages are the main home/portal/navigational pages on your site where you hope will be your visitors' first experience with your site (and design them as such) ... aka the first page they see when they land on your site.

Member Avatar for vicks

Hi
I want to ask onething:
Is it true that Land Page gets Ranked easily than other pages. I am very confused about this.
Lets say I have 100 pages, so do I need to build links to all those 100 pages to get Ranked in Google?

Thanks for your time.

Member Avatar for Dani

The more different pages you have links coming to, the better.

Member Avatar for Fivq.com

my pagerank decreased :(

Member Avatar for mitz

My pagerank for the inner pages keeps changing??? It is very annoying.. Do you only get PR if you have links going to that page?

Member Avatar for Dani

Yes ... PR is simply a statistic that measures incoming links.

Member Avatar for Hafsoh

Yeah, PR is affected with incoming links

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