Are you ready for Google PageRank Update of 2010?

December 24, 2009 - Last Modified: December 24, 2009 by Hesham Zebida

Do you know that Google updates its PageRank every three months? Maybe you know this one, but do you know that we are at the end of year expecting a PageRank update soon? It could be at the beginning of the New Year 2010, and Matt says that maybe they will include page speed to be a ranking factor.

Have you heard about Page Speed tool? its an open-source Firefox/Firebug Add-on. Webmasters and web developers (like us) is using Page Speed to evaluate the performance of our blogs and websites and to get suggestions on how to improve them.

I am going now to ask you the very important three questions of the day:

Do you believe in Google PageRank?
Have you made any preparations to your blog to get a better PageRank?
What is your expectations for your Blog PageRank this update?

I wish you happy blogging and high PageRank, and I would love to hear from you!

About Hesham Zebida

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I create websites with WordPress, and I develop Schema Plugins to help SEOs. I am a social network lover. I am also the night creature who works hard to keep this project up. Owner and founder of the Famous Blog.

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Paul Werner says:

I believe PR is a good visual tool but there seems to be more and more disgruntled webmasters who have fitting arguments with its PR of their sites.
Aleks says:

Interesting information. It is necessary to prepare for new changes. To us to developers it is always hard, but so even it is interesting. Pagerank is very important for SEO developers.
Onibalusi Bamidele says:

Pagerank is really important because it is the level of trust google have in your site, but pagerank doesn't really mean traffic because i know some pagerank 7 websites that hardly get 50 visitors a day.
- Hesham says:
  
  A late reply.. but yeah.. we have talked about it... you are right!
Kidgas says:

I just heard that the new update was finished. I checked and had gone from PR1 to PR2 with my blog. I am very pleased and hope to increase to PR3 within the next year or so.
- Hesham says:
  
  This is true, I have checked the PR of our Blog and found it's 3 - Thank you so much for the great news, and congratulations to you , this is the best news I heard before 2009 ends ;)
Jose says:

Hi, I believe that links from social networkings and Google's Caffeine may play an important role, probably not so much in terms of PR, but how your website will be positioned in terms of searches. My advice is to keep writing original content and regularly. Wish you all a Prosperous 2010
- Hesham says:
  
  Thanks for the good advice, we have got a PR of 3 , Google has finished the update.. I hope your blog will do good!
MrCyberSmart says:

Yes, setting the compression rate correctly is not real easy. I'm going to pay to have this done. Some of my political blogging friends have really fast pages. And I mean FAST! Can't wait to get this completed. It's a fantastic plugin. .-= MrCyberSmart´s last blog ..Human Psychology and Google AdSense =-.
- Hesham says:
  
  Google PR is updates already! I hope it's god news for you!
Custom Gates says:

Excellent blog post. This has got me so excited to see how Google will rank our fairly new, but 100% optimized webpage. It will be interesting, thats for sure.
- Hesham says:
  
  The good thing is Google is providing great tools to help webmasters and bloggers to enhance their websites, I hope you have done some work on yours, good luck on the coming PR update!
sriganesh says:

nice article and in two months after starting my blog i got page rank 3. dont know how, the reason is 15 month old blog which has a 15k pageviews daily still in PR1, -=-=-=-=-=-= by the way the twitter ID link you gave here look weird, i made a tutorial to add next to the website column and no blue background and its looks simple : if you like it Try this | http://www.animhut.com/tuts/add-twitter-id-field-to-comment-form-in-5-easy-steps/ | Add Twitter Id field to comment form in 5 easy steps .-= sriganesh´s last blog ..Big Tweety | Vector Freebie =-.
- Hesham says:
  
  This happen to me as well with one of my blogs! it's kind of weird specially when we don't know what exactly was the reason of the high PR! Thanks for the link, I was planing to do that on our next theme update, but I have done the easy steps right after reading your comment, I also added Andy's tip and added tabindex="4" in the twitter field, I think you should add it as well ;)
  - sriganesh says:
    
    thanks for that and comments | i tried it to add the tab indx, dont know why it not working | no difference | i am glad you like my post :D happy Holidays .-= sriganesh´s last blog ..AnimHuT with a Fresh Look | Updates =-.
Nehir says:

i f... believe PR and trying hard to get PR4. google plays smart. hoping updates gonna be soon...good luck mates... .-= Nehir´s last blog ..PATATES KROKETLER =-.
- Hesham says:
  
  Good luck to you as well Nehir!
Jan says:

1. Yes, I do believe in Page Rank. With a PR5 I cannot afford not to believe in it. Well, I cannot afford not to take care of my PR. 2. Not really. I've always been very selective in what I link to, and I practically never link to any page or post that does not have a PR. 3. PR6 is probably asking for too much, but I'm fine as longs as my internal posts and pages are bumped up. Currently 88% of my posts are PR2 or better, while only 10% are PR4 or better, and I hope to increase that at least. And as to PageSpeed I found the Net extension in Firebug to be more useful, since it really shows me how fast or slow individual items load .-= Jan´s last blog ..2009 – looking back =-.
- Hesham says:
  
  Who tasted the PR of 4 would love to try shifting to 5th speed, I had 4 PR on one of my blogs before, I have lost in on the bloggers war ;) Thank you a lot for sharing this information with us, I wish you all the good luck on the coming update.
Aswani says:

Very nice article. Well, I am eagerly waiting for the next page rank update. I don't know why my blog's google page rank got dropped from 4 to 3 all of a sudden in the last update. After carefully researching on it, I came to find some important reasons for it. And I have tried to work on those issues...hopefully I am most likely to get my PR back in this update. And yes, I believe in Google PR but not much. I think it is a mere showpiece but of a great value. Seriously speaking, I never had any such desire to get the so called google PR. But yes, its true that once you get it, you do not want to loose it any cost. I think everyone agrees to it. Getting more and more traffic is more important rather than worrying about the page rank. .-= Aswani´s last blog ..Social Networking in Office Hours - Good or Bad ! =-.
- Hesham says:
  
  A lot of blogs has dropped from 4 to 3 PR on the last update Aswani, my blog was one of them, put in mind that other webmasters and bloggers are working on enhancing their PR at the same time you work on yours, it's a big competition. I will keep believing in Google PR until the advertisers forget about it!
  - Aswani says:
    
    Yes, Hisham. PR is just for the advertisers who want to advertise their products or services without thinking much on other factors. .-= Aswani´s last blog ..Social Networking in Office Hours - Good or Bad ! =-.
sana says:

Hi, This is great post and thanks for telling us about google updates but I want to know next update I have some new websites and I hope they got pr 3 .
- Hesham says:
  
  Np! Good luck Sana
Blogger Den says:

I am excitedly awaiting a PR update, I have launched a few new websites over the past 2 months and I want to see how my backlinks have raised their PR since! Plus, my site should have gone up at least 1 rank since then... hello PR5! .-= Blogger Den´s last blog ..Interview with Rent A Coder Founder Ian Ippolito / JRB =-.
- Hesham says:
  
  Ah! then you are excited like me, this blog is new to, and I am wondering what PR it will carry! Good Luck buddy!
Dennis Edell says:

Forgot to subscribe to comments. .-= Dennis Edell´s last blog ..The Final “Official” Post For DSWM! =-.
Dennis Edell says:

Add-on installed but don't see anything anywhere to use it? .-= Dennis Edell´s last blog ..EMERGENCY POST - MaxBlogPress Ping Optimizer plugin might be DEFECTIVE! =-.
- Hesham says:
  
  mmm, if you are using the Firebug you will see a new tap "Page Speed"!
  - Dennis Edell says:
    
    New "tap"? .-= Dennis Edell´s last blog ..Again - Pick My New Domain Names With A chance To Win $10! =-.
    - Hesham says:
      
      Do you want me to send you a screen shot, or maybe make a video for you, come on Dennis don't be lazy ;) OK OK! maybe it's not a tab, it's menu.. maybe a menu tab!
      - Dennis Edell says:
        
        OK send a screenshot. .-= Dennis Edell´s last blog ..Again - Pick My New Domain Names With A chance To Win $10! =-.
    - Hesham says:
      
      OK! I send it to your email!
Isaac says:

Hi Hasheem. Yeah, I'm ready for the next update. But I don't hope for any increase there, I just hope it won't go down. PR 4 is quite good for my blog, I guess. Btw, I'm first time visitor here. Your header image is great!
- Hesham says:
  
  Pr of 4 make it more harder to stay on the same level, to get 5 for sure we need to die on our computers ;) Glad you liked the header, and I hope this is not your last visit to our blog!
chandan says:

I completely believe on google PR, google PR advantage for my blog is that I am selling text link on my blog and if my blog PR increase then I can sell link with higher price. I till now mad any preparation for gogle PR update, but I know that the upcoming PR update will greatly effect on our blogs and sites and google is changing hugely all of their ranking system, google might be see our blog loading speed, our blog inbound and outbound link and many factors. I do not have any objection if my blog PR do not increase, but I will feel very bad if my blog PR decrease.
- Dennis Edell says:
  
  Keep selling links and get the Google slap to kill your PR altogether...be careful with that. .-= Dennis Edell´s last blog ..EMERGENCY POST - MaxBlogPress Ping Optimizer plugin might be DEFECTIVE! =-.
  - chandan says:
    
    So is it not one blog monetizing option for blogggers? Well I am taking precuation while selling link. .-= chandan´s last blog ..Sponsored tweets- great work at home opportunity =-.
    - Dennis Edell says:
      
      It's an option...if you don't care about PR getting slapped. .-= Dennis Edell´s last blog ..Again - Pick My New Domain Names With A chance To Win $10! =-.
  - Hesham says:
    
    I hope that your preparation will work for you buddy, good luck! I think the problem is with selling non relevant links!
Sire says:

I believe in PR but I don't worry about it at all. If I have a good rank, cool, if I don't I don;t really care. If I was going to worry about the speed my pages load, I'll do it because I want it to benefit my readers, not because of anything Google wants. I don't do anything special to effect my PR one way or the other. It would just take all the fun out of blogging if I had to worry about what effects my blogging habits would have on my PR .-= Sire´s last blog ..How Amazon And The Power Of Keywords Can Increase Your Earnings =-.
- Hesham says:
  
  I agree it's not fun at all to blog with fear to lose PR thing, I have done some enhancements to my blogs to make it load faster a little also for the same reason, I want our visitors load the page faster to be more comfort, I discovered that there is some people countries like (Egypt) still don't have enough speed internet and our blogs could take double time or even more to open on their browsers! I notice the different here with my 12 G speed internet!
MrCyberSmart says:

Page load speed has been a constant struggle for me. Plugins can cause drag, as well as widgets. I installed the WordPress WP Super Cache about a year ago. I'm still messing with the compression settings and may have to outsource this project. Thanks for the heads up, and keep on blogging! .-= MrCyberSmart´s last blog ..Happy Birthday Cyber Smart! One Month Old Today! =-.
- Hesham says:
  
  WP super cash plugin makes a difference, but it's settings are sometimes hard to set with some servers, I set it to the default and I don't play with it because I got some problem when I try to! I have reduced the plugins running on my blogs, and I think I am going to remove some images as well from the theme or at least I will fix it's size! Thanks for sharing and keep visiting ;)
lawmacs says:

That was very great of you to mentioned this i refer to it in one of my former blog post 3 Basic Search Engine Optimization Tips a while back so this is not surprised then does this means we will have to do away with those buttons and scripts lets wait and see .-= lawmacs´s last blog ..Merry Christmas to You All =-.
- Hesham says:
  
  Good luck to all of us my friend ;)
Warsidi akuntansi says:

I agree with you. It seems that PR isn't so important to me. I just use blog for e-learning purposes. And I'm so happy now that google indexes my post immediately after I press publish button. It's great for me.
- Hesham says:
  
  Actually Google PR is a sign for us, it tell if we are on the right path or not!
Jannie Funster says:

Hi! I do have a lite snippet of code installed somewhere on my blog which does make my site load much faster, forget which file I put it in exactly --but it's there! For me my general plan is just to keep putting out posts of things that I'm excited about, keep meeting new excellent bloggers and continue having a ball. If during the whirlwind of fun and blogging games, I get a higher Google rank and a lower Alexa one, I'll be more thrilled than if I won a life- time supply of beer and donuts. Whoo- hoo! .-= Jannie Funster´s last blog ..A Peanuts Christmas Song For You =-.
ways2moremoney says:

With Google starting real-time search page load time will be a factor. .-= ways2moremoney´s last blog ..Twitter Out Does Google Search Engine =-.
web hosting indore says:

at last google pr update i was left untouched.. this time i am looking towards the PR update. hope i can get the pr these time. Thanks .-= web hosting indore´s last blog ..10 tips for SEO =-.
DiTesco says:

As long as PR exist, it is my opinion that it will always be important regardless of what and how Google uses it to determine their ranking factors. True that you should not pay too much attention to it as it can drive you nuts... But if it is there, there it is important, period. Hopefully I will regain my lost PR back, who knows? Well Mr G does. Good luck Hesham and all the best .-= DiTesco´s last blog ..Google AdSense Webinar - Free Online Seminars =-.
S.Pradeep Kumar says:

I believe in Technorati rank more than PR and Alexa Rank.. :) And one Google Chrome extension showed that my blog has "3 and half" PR.. :D Let's see how true it is .. ! .-= S.Pradeep Kumar´s last blog ..10 Famous Sites Banned By Digg =-.
Latief says:

Some guys have all the luck! Rod Steward song ha ha ha. I don't really care about the PR, my blogging goal is sharing something useful for my friends but as Liane said: can I asked the generous Google to make my blog PR's become 6 or 7, considering that I'm still using blogger account! LOL! .-= Latief@AnotherBlogger´s last blog ..Amazon Associates and Google Blogger Now Integrated =-.
Shabnam Sultan says:

Thanks for sharing the info :) . PR are great to make money from your blog through advertisements. My blog is PR3 and not expecting much from the next update. Good luck to everyone :) . .-= Shabnam Sultan´s last blog ..Santa wishing from Lunar North Pole =-.
neelmoney says:

Nice to get the news about PR updates.and I am not expecting much from pr updates. .-= neelmoney´s last blog ..How To Earn Money Online With AlertPay Payment Processor =-.
Deepika says:

Hi hesham, Its very happy to hear about the google page rank update.. I hope to get PR 1... And i take this opportunity to wish every one Merry Christmas... Celebrate with full of joy :D .-= Deepika´s last blog ..SEO – True Story =-.
Ricky says:

I am not expecting much by this pr update. I was inactive for few days and now i am working on my new website. I hope everything works well.
Vaibhav says:

1. Yes I believe in Page Rank as After SEO google surely uses PR as a parameter 2. I have taken part in active discussions and optimized my blog according to Page speed. so I am hoping to see my 3 month old blog to come out of its 0 PR 3.I think my Blog will make a debt soon. .-= Vaibhav | Programming Kid´s last blog ..[Christmas Bonanza 2009] – Winners Announced and more… =-.
Tech-Freak Stuff says:

I somewhat believe in Google PageRank but recently a lot of sites have been found using Fake PR. I hope to get an original PR 3 in the Next update! .-= Tech-Freak Stuff´s last blog ..My 3 Biggest SEO mistakes of 2009 =-.
- Hesham says:
  
  Well, there is some people talk about Fake PageRank Detection, I bet that advertisers is a ware of these tricks, Good luck with your coming PR!
Manz says:

First up - Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year! I've been looking at the updated Google webmaster tools, which relate to page loading speeds. While it's great, it's pointless if you don't understand the suggestions - which is the case with myself right now!! LOL!! I care about page ranks. And it worries me to think that page speeds will play a role in the next round of updates. For example, a site that requires more images (graphic portfolios, and so on) will load slower than a site that is all text based. I think speed evaluation doesn't factor in the different type of sites and content. Or maybe Google has considered this and have an algorithm in place to deal with it! .-= Manz´s last blog ..T-Shirt Strategy Interviews Manz =-.
- Hesham says:
  
  Happy Christmas Manz, It's sometimes hard to understand these issues specially when you don't have enough time to study it very well, I just don't want you to worry that much about your website speed, do the basic things like think about how to fix the size of your images with out losing the quality, Photoshop is doing it in a great way, and put in mind that Google has over 200 ranking factors in its algorithm, each factor has a weight, so it doesn't makes sense that page speed would be extremely heavy weighted factor, but of course if your website take a very long time to load, let's say 1 minute of something then that means you have a real problem, and this is in my opinion is not your case ;) Happy to see you here, keep in touch and don't hesitate to ask about anything comes in your mind, we will try to answer you as much as we can!
Sunil Jain says:

Its quite interesting to know that there will be a PR update , although my PR had dropped from 3 to 2 in the previous PR update :( , but this time i hope i will retain it back and try to increase my PR as much as possible ;) :) . I never heard about Page speed addon , hopefully i will install it and try to know more about improving my blog ;) :) 1.Ans : I believe in Page Rank , this is what my experinece told me why i must believe in PR . " It is before 2 or 3 months when my PR was 3 and i had rewritten a blog post from other site as it was not very much understanding and well explained ;) , then after some time i see my blog is top on the result pages when searched fro that topic , whereas the one from which i had written is on the second page. " 2.Ans : Not much , I have responded well in my do-follow blog list to improve my PR ;) 3.Ans : I hope i will retain my PR 3 back :) What about you Hesham ?? Whats your answers for these 3 imporatant questions ;) ;) .-= Sunil Jain´s last blog ..5 Things to know before creating a blog =-.
- Hesham says:
  
  I wish you all the good luck! And nooo no! don't ask me because I am not sure of anything, this blog is only 2 months old, I am not sure if I will get any rank but I will be fine if I got 2 or something! The last 2 months I was working so hard to bring this blog it to life, and I am very active on social networking and trued to get as much back linking as I can, so let's see what's the results of all that! .-= Hesham´s last blog ..So You Think You Can Blog Engage Me?! =-.
Anne says:

I don't really care about a pagerank update. It's pretty meaningless by now (unless you get no pagerank, indicating there may be something seriously wrong). Pagerank doesn't matter - what matters is your search ranking and how much traffic Google actually sends you. So, the real news is, Google is supposed to roll out a major change to its algorithm after the Holidays - http://b6s.net/general/the-effects-of-caffeine.html Best of luck to us all with this one over 2010! .-= Anne @ b6s.net´s last blog ..Web News & Views Roundup #3 =-.
- Hesham says:
  
  Thank you for the nice information, but disagree with you! Let's say that I don't care for PageRank! but advertisers do! so If I am going to make money from my blog then I have to have a high PR! even most of the advertising services won't accept your blog with out a PR of 4 at most cases! I hope this make your re think about it, unless you don't care for advertisers, so this is a different case. .-= Hesham´s last blog ..So You Think You Can Blog Engage Me?! =-.
  - Andy Lie says:
    
    Yeah right, Agreed. Besides traffic, pagerank is so valuable for people who are willing to make money by selling ads of their blog space. There are some types of advertisers that I figure out from forum. They are who consider only traffic, only pagerank or both of them. This is absolutely a separate topic if Anne do not intend to make money by selling ads at her blog space.
Susanne Van Hulst says:

I had a PR4 and Google took it away for unknown reasons.... I'm now a PR2... who cares??? Google does anyway what they want...
Liane says:

Oh oh. This gives me the chills. I wasn't aware of the previous update so I've been shocked (in good way) to know that I've been pulled up to a PR3. Hopefully it stays that way on the upcoming update. But if Google wants to be my holiday santa, can I ask for a PR4 or PR5 please? hahaha. Goodluck to all of us guys. And so again we're at the mercy of Google. lol. And Merry Christmas ;)
- Hesham says:
  
  Liane, I hope that will be shocked with a high voltage PR next update LOL! nothing is impossible in this life dear, I am not actually hoping to get even pr 3 for FamousBlogers blog as it's still new, if Google decide to give me 2 I will be fine at the mean time! The good thing is you know it's near now, I am not sure when exactly it will update, but any good step will count for sure in your blogging bath, so.. good luck! .-= Hesham´s last blog ..So You Think You Can Blog Engage Me?! =-.

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