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Welp since they undid the past recent update - the moment has come! Google has updated their backlinks.

Our site jumped up by about 110 links:)

Data centers that are showing the changes so far include the following:




Hope everyone made out ok :)

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Nice catch — this thread captures the kind of backlink/Toolbar‑PR churn site owners saw in late 2004. Members including , , , and reported changes to inbound-link counts, indexing and PageRank on different machines; that pattern (public toolbar PR updates arriving as discrete refreshes) is documented in PR‑update histories. (Toolbar PageRank update history). (searchenginegenie.com)

Practical verification checklist (useful years later, when diagnosing any backlink/PR blip):

  • Confirm what Google actually sees via the Links report in Google Search Console (export “Latest links” or “More sample links” for detail). ().
  • Check Manual Actions and URL Inspection for penalties or indexing problems; inspect the linking pages to see whether the links are live, nofollowed, canonicalized away, or behind robots rules. (, Wayback Machine for historical snapshots). ()

Context and next steps: toolbar PR and raw backlink counts are noisy and sampled; meaningful signals come from referring‑domain diversity and the quality of the links, not a single count. If low‑quality or clearly manipulative links are found, attempt removal and document outreach; use Google’s disavow only after good‑faith removal attempts and keep a dated log of requests. (Google on the disavow tool). For sites like those described by and , focus on fixing canonical/internal linking and on earning real, relevant links rather than reacting to short-term toolbar numbers. (developers.google.com)

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Member Avatar for Scribbller

Well my PR went up to 6 from 4 after this update for one site and for the other it went up to 3 from 0 :)

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Oohhh, one of the very lucky few who got a PR update for an existing page.

Member Avatar for mnemtsas

I saw some PR changes on internal pages as did quite a few others.

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I'm still waiting for the day google will recognizes I have a lot more backlinks than a PR5 site :)

Member Avatar for pulse

:P No change for me ;)

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Join the club, I guess. However, still have a great number of pages indexed. Rankings slipped a bit but I still can't complain.

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