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After the last Google PR Update, Uncoverthenet.com home page has PR 0 . They have been experiencing a penalty. Their directory homepage has PR 5, and sub pages still have PR.

After the PR penalty to some large directories, many thought Google hated directories, and all directories would be history. But last month site-sift.com ’s penalty was lifted, and site-sift has moved back to PR 8 from PR 0.

Here’s an interesting reading from Uncoverthenet blog.

I have a few sites listed by Uncoverthenet, and I really like the site. I know Shawn and the team have spent some serious time creating and maintaining Uncoverthenet, and I wish them good luck with getting back the PR they deserve.

Discussion about the topic at DP Forum.

I have realized the Google PR update after reading frankm’s post at Digital Point forums yesterday.

You can check your site’s new PR either from your toolbar or from SEO Chat’s Future PR tool.

The two heavyweight fighters of the online world, Google and Yahoo, remain locked in a titanic battle for supremacy, with each dominant in their key areas, according to a new survey from ChangeWave Research.

ChangeWave’s survey of 1,440 professionals showed Google is not only the primary online search engine by a huge margin (78% Google; 14% Yahoo), it is also the most popular toolbar in home browsers/applications (Google 38%; Yahoo 28%).

Yahoo, however, is far and away the most popular home page site, and it’s also the primary website for online news and information (Yahoo 32%; MSN 10%; CNN 8%; Google 5%). Importantly, more than three times as many respondents use Yahoo email (18%) as use Google Gmail (5%).

ChangeWave’s “Yahoo vs. Google” survey results show that the two online champions are embroiled in a slugfest across multiple product/service areas in their high-stakes contest for domination of the Internet. The results suggest the fight is far from over.

Both search engine behemoths are nearly identical in annual revenue: Yahoo generated $4 billion and Google $3.8 billion over the past 12 months. Yahoo still racks up the higher gross profit. However, based on Google’s strong 2005 stock performance, the savants on Wall Street are betting on Google to outperform Yahoo and the rest of the online pack. Read more

Google Inc. took over the top spot as the most highly valued media company this week, surpassing Time Warner Inc. in just 10 months of trading as a public company.

Google’s share price on the Nasdaq rose another $2.18, or 0.75 percent, to close at $293.12 on Tuesday, an all-time high. Stock market analysts have suggested the stock could go as high as $325 or $350 a share.

With a current stock market capitalization of more than $80 billion, Google is now worth more than any other media company in the world. That includes Time Warner, created five years ago when AOL purchased Time Warner for $106 billion in a much-hyped combination of old and new media. Read more

Google has its new beta program Google Sitemaps Beta.

Google says:

Google Sitemaps is an easy way for you to help improve your coverage in the Google index. It’s a collaborative crawling system that enables you to communicate directly with Google to keep us informed of all your web pages, and when you make changes to these pages.

With Google Sitemaps you get:

• Better crawl coverage to help people find more of your web pages
• Fresher search results
• A smarter crawl because you can provide specific information about all your web pages, such as when a page was last modified or how frequently a page changes

You can use the Google Sitemap Generator to generate a sitemap for your site.

To make your site better and easier crawlable, it is always good to have a sitemap. With the Google’s new sitemaps beta program, sitemaps are becoming more important for better crawling, and search engine optimizing.

It was a busy weekend for SEO consultants, and SEO forums. Friday (27th of May) I have read the thread “There is not a PR update going on” at DigitalPoint Forums and found out that many sites started showing grey on the Google Toolbar PR check.

There were very early comments with the shock of the news by several forum members. One DP member joeychgo has stated “This is the end of Google Pagerank as we know it”, and many others agreed. I think it was an early assumption to make.

PR was not a major impact on my websites, but it was still an important indicator for many webmasters. As myself having a few web directories, I have understood that many webmasters still care about visual PR more than other factors.

I didn’t give it a deep thought, and I started checking by Google. I haven’t seen any official announcements nor press releases about the PR topic. Then I have started checking authority sites in SEO business, and could not find any proof that announced the end of visual Google PR.

Then I have answered the thread at DigitalPoint Forums by this sentence:

I don’t care about the future of PR but I’d hesitate before making certain assumptions without a scientific proof or actual announcement from google.

PR migt be gone for good, but I don’t like it when people make certain assumptions without any proof. It might even be a temporary glitch.

I had a chance to write about the updates here at the topic “Is Google Toolbar PR History?” . It is not a big deal at all, but I have received a few emails saying I was the first (maybe one of the first) blogger who wrote about it, and a few sites mentioned Daily-SEO about this blog entry such as this one .

As predicted by many Google PR was back and I have blogged “Google Visual Page Rank is Back” today.

Everything seems calmed down for now, we will wait and see if Google will have new surprises about the Toolbar PR.

Is toolbar PR important or not? Many webmasters discuss this question. I will write a detailed article about this topic this week.

This was a short summary of what happened with Google Toolbar PR this weekend.

Google has released its new personalized homepage service yesterday.

It allows you to arrange your Gmail, Google News, Google Maps driving directions, weather and a few select news services (including Slashdot) on a single page. Future plans include Universal RSS support.

Yahoo has a similar service called My Yahoo and with the new personalized home page service, many webmasters started to discuss if google’s direction is to become a web portal instead of a search engine.

Is there a Google PR update coming soon? There have been many discussions on different SEO forums.

I have checked all of my sites with SEOChat Future PR Tool and couldn’t see any updates. I have also visited PageRank Watch Site to check for any updates but it seems like all data centers are stable.

On DigitalPoint Forums, user "Josh" has seen some PR movement with his new site, and he’s posted it on this topic. His new site shows PR 5 on many data centers.

And on SEOChat Forums, there’s a discussion about upcoming Google PR update, and some predictions of the members, here at this topic.

After reviewing all the discussions, and movements in different data centers, I believe we’re getting very close to the next PR update, and my prediction is we’ll see the PR update either last week of March, or first week of April.

We will both wait and see, and I hope everybody will have higher PR’s.

I have seen some differences on my Google Backlinks last night, and this morning after checking with several Google Data Centers, I can officially say that, there’s a Google Backlink Update.  Go to McDar SEO Tools and click "Data Center Quick Check", enter your URL and click "Check for Google Backlink/PR Update" and you will see most of the data centers are already updated.

I have spoken to some SEO experts this morning and there’s a discussion about if a new PR update is coming very soon or not.  Let’s cross the fingers and wait. I hope your websites have gained new backlinks with this new Google Backlink Update.  Majority of my websites gained links, and a few have lost some backlinks. This new backlink update shows that I have to work more on link building. I will be writing about link building this week.

I have been using Google Alerts to receive news by email.  You choose your keywords, and Google sends the related news to your email. This service has saved me some time during last couple of months.  But last week I have discovered a new feature of Google Alerts.  You can use Google Alerts for SEO purposes.

If you are working on SEO, you should be familiar with site:http://www.domain.com and link:http://www.domain.com search strings.  We always wonder how our websites do at Google, so we check by site: string to see how many pages of our website is listed in Google index, and by link: string to see how many websites are linking to ours (back links).  By using Google Alerts, you can easily enter one of two search strings.

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