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Tool Bar PR Update

By Jacqulyn Richey

Real Estate Agent with Prominent Realty Group

April 30, 2007 09:20 PM

That's right. The magic green bar is updating again. Doing a random check it seems the page rank update was fairly generous with Active rain and localism. It seems most agent profiles there on localism are showing a pr of 3 and AR profiles a pr of 4. Of course, the tool bar is the last thing to be "updated".

Some of you back east may not be seeing the changes yet (at least Ken Smith hasn't yet). Will it make a difference? Not really, although pr will show you just how trusted your site is to Google. So take it with a grain of salt and enjoy! -Charles

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Allison Stewart

St.Cloud Homes - Saint Cloud, FL

St. Cloud Fl Realtor, Osceola County Real Estate 407-616-9904

Congratulations on your Gold Star! Good job on SEO and rankings as well!

Apr 30, 2007 10:29 PM

Lucky Lang

Premiere Plus Realty Marco Island - Marco Island, FL

Marco Island & Naples Florida Real Estate

Charles,

Could you please elaborate. I don't know what you talking about.

Thanks,

Lucky :)

Apr 30, 2007 10:38 PM

Luke Constantino

Brooklyn/Manhattan Real Estate - Brooklyn, NY

Residential/Commercial Real Estate Brooklyn NY

I don't have that here. Why does the west side get the kewl stuff first? Well.. i'll be waiting...

Apr 30, 2007 11:06 PM

Christopher Benedict

BIG Realty - Collegeville, PA

AskTheBigGuy

Not sure what the green bar is...could you explain further? I have noticed my SE rankings go up since I began posting on this site...

Apr 30, 2007 11:08 PM

Randy L. Prothero

eXp Realty - Hollister, MO

Missouri REALTOR, (808) 384-5645

Aloha Jaculan,

What is the magic green bar and what is pr?

Apr 30, 2007 11:13 PM

Jennifer Steck

Rocky Mountain Homescapes, Keller Williams, Denver Colorado - Denver, CO

Denver Real Estate

Jacqulyn- I'm not sure what this means either. If I put my name in, my AR blog is 1 and my localism content is 3-4 pages back.

May 01, 2007 12:16 AM

Jay Burnham

Coldwell Banker - Beverly, MA

The Coldwell Banker Guy

Hi Jacqulyn...I join those above in requesting clarification. It all sounds good, but what does it mean.

Regards...Jay

May 01, 2007 12:19 AM

Laura Cerrano

Feng Shui Manhattan Long Island - Locust Valley, NY

Certified Feng Shui Expert, Speaker & Researcher

Jacqulyn, if you could add a link to Googles PR system, I think that would help. I just starting checking it on occasion last year, prior to that I didn't know what it was. Thanks so much, I always think it's good to know.

May 01, 2007 12:57 AM

Tim Maitski

Atlanta Communities Real Estate Brokerage - Atlanta, GA

Truth, Excellence and a Good Deal

The green bar that many people refer to is the pagerank indicator that you see when you have the Google toolbar installed on your computer.

Here's a link that gives you more information.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PageRank

May 01, 2007 01:04 AM

Mark Pilatowski

myClosingSPACE - Manhattan, NY

Here is a definition of Page Rank. It is a rating based on the quantity and quality of links coming into a site. The toolbar Page Rank is the little green pixel you see if you have Page Rank display turned on in the Google Toolbar. What you see in the toolbar is vastly overrated in terms of importance. While internal page rank at Google changes daily (and is very important and something we will never see) the toolbar page rank changes a few times a year. A move up in TBPR does not mean that your site will do any better in the SERPs. You would really be better off just ignoring it and concentrate on where your site ranks, which is much more important in generating leads and sales. And if you look you will see plenty of sites with low (or even no) PR ranking much better than sites with high PR. It's a fun little tool but in the grand scheme of things it is pretty unimportant.

May 01, 2007 01:12 AM

Randy L. Prothero

eXp Realty - Hollister, MO

Missouri REALTOR, (808) 384-5645

Thanks for the help. I have the Google toolbar and no page rank button. That is why I was so confused. I just added it to my toolbar.

May 01, 2007 05:28 AM

Christy Powers

Keller Williams Coastal Area Partners - Pooler, GA

Pooler, Savannah Real Estate Agent

I check mine occasionally. I think I am addicted to seeing my stats.

May 01, 2007 05:30 AM

Tom Burris

NMLS# 335055 - Baton Rouge, LA

Texas/Louisiana Mortgage Pro - 13 YRS Experience

my AR page is on page 1

my website is on page 4

and that is just googling my name. too bad there are a couple of quasi-famous people with my name.

May 01, 2007 05:40 AM

Mark Pilatowski

myClosingSPACE - Manhattan, NY

Tom, I think you are confusing toolbar page rank with the SERP rank of your sites. Toolbar page rank is simply a graphical representation of the link popularity of your website and really not that important. SERP rank is the actual ranking of your site in the search engines and is VERY important.

May 01, 2007 05:43 AM

Toby Barnett

KW North Sound - Marysville, WA

Toby Barnett

Mark, PR is still valid in my opinion. A site has to have a many incoming links to rank well in the SERPs. As a result a site that ranks well will generally have a hirer PR than sites that don't. Not to say there isn't exceptions to the rule.

My AR profile/blog both to 4s, my new marketing blog a 3 and my real estate site to a 5. I am happy camper :)

May 01, 2007 06:20 AM

Mark Pilatowski

myClosingSPACE - Manhattan, NY

It is valid to a certain extent and if you have two sites who score fairly equally on the other algorithm factors the higher PR site will win out. But it is not the be all end all that too many people think it is. It is one factor in the Google algorithm and the biggest issue is that it is out of date. Right now there is an update but that is data extrapolated from the last 3 months or so while real page rank (what Google uses internally) is constantly updated.

That being said I am still pretty happy that my PR jumped a bit for our site and my personal blog. I know it is not nearly as important as some make it out to be but it is still neat to see that green bar move to the right, even just a bit.

May 01, 2007 07:08 AM

Toby Barnett

KW North Sound - Marysville, WA

Toby Barnett

Your right, it is just one peice of the larger puzzle and shouldn't be the only thing used when determining the quality of one's SEO. Seeing the little green bar move is always a bonus and gives some validation that some SEO startegies are working.

May 01, 2007 08:25 AM

Keith Jeppson - Salt Lake City Real Estate

Everest Realty Group - Holladay, UT

Thanks for the heads up Jacqulyn. I haven't seen the change yet. Hope something happens.

May 01, 2007 10:02 AM

Ben Kakimoto

Keller Williams Greater Seattle - Seattle, WA

Seattle Condo Specialist

Interesting my AR blog is PR 4...same with my non-AR blog which actually went down : (

May 01, 2007 12:22 PM

Maureen Francis

Coldwell Banker Weir Manuel - Bloomfield Hills, MI