Google has begun the PageRank update. I have seen updates on multiple site that I work on.
Some of the potential changes per the Search Engine Roundtable blog:
- Internal links and external links on the same page may not be splitting the PageRank vote equally.
- Depending on the location of the link, PR may be weighted differently.
- Multiple links to the same url from the same page may not each get the same piece of the PR vote.
- “Run-of-site” external links, like Blogrolls, may now have diminished PR.
- Links between domains that Google sees as “related” may have their PR significantly damped down. Possibly the same goes for sites that link to subdomains.
Although many deem PageRank unimportant I still contend that it is one way to tell how relevant Google deems your site.
