Google Page Rank - How Long It Takes

[stephengfm]

From my personal experience, it can take as little as 7 days for a website page to get its Page Rank - from the date that the material is published.

Is this anyone else's experience?

[jjmcd82]

Google updates all of the visible pageranks at the same time. If you publish a page two days before the PR update, it will show PR in two days. If you publish two months before the update, it will take two months.

Really though, I wouldn't worry too much about PR unless it is suddenly dropping to zero. There are hundreds of other ranking factors that go in to search results, and PR is just one - an outdated one at that!

[stephengfm]

Originally Posted by jjmcd82

Google updates all of the visible pageranks at the same time. If you publish a page two days before the PR update, it will show PR in two days. If you publish two months before the update, it will take two months.

Really though, I wouldn't worry too much about PR unless it is suddenly dropping to zero. There are hundreds of other ranking factors that go in to search results, and PR is just one - an outdated one at that!

That delay appears to depend on the website itself. At least it appear that way from the scant evidence I have gathered.

[technol]

I wouldn't worry about it. I've never fully understood Page Ranking and assumed it was no longer relevant.

I've got quite a few websites. The highest grossing website does have a high Page Rank, but the site that brings in the second highest amount of income (and has the second highest number of site visitors) only has a Page Rank of 2.

That site, the one with the Page Rank of 2, has more visitors, and generates more money than all but one of the higher ranking sites I own.

[webcosmo]

it could be days or months.
these days google even not sure when they gonna have the next pr update.

[smileverse]

7 days? I am not very sure about the exact time taken by the Google to shows the effect in any website's page rank. Even no one has any idea about the exact time.

[jjmcd82]

Originally Posted by stephengfm

That delay appears to depend on the website itself. At least it appear that way from the scant evidence I have gathered.

Sometimes a popular, new post will go from N/A to PR0 very quickly, but in the years and years I've been watching PR, I've never seen a new page go green until all sites are updated at once.

See, Google is constantly updating PR. Every single page and link it crawls changes its view of the web, but they only release the PR updates publicly about once every three months. This last update came around May 1, but it changed the visible - or ToolBar - PR for week-old posts on old domains, as well as domains that were new two months ago.

[jeresteem99]

If you have newly site you can ping it through many Pinging directories as you can, at the end of the day I will became PR 0.

[stephengfm]

Originally Posted by jjmcd82

Sometimes a popular, new post will go from N/A to PR0 very quickly, but in the years and years I've been watching PR, I've never seen a new page go green until all sites are updated at once.

See, Google is constantly updating PR. Every single page and link it crawls changes its view of the web, but they only release the PR updates publicly about once every three months. This last update came around May 1, but it changed the visible - or ToolBar - PR for week-old posts on old domains, as well as domains that were new two months ago.

So each time that I improve by internal SEO and people link to my website, then Google improves my PR, but does not show it to anyone?

[Kayak]

I understood that google only publishes updated PR about four times per year, and not on any predetermined schedule. Who knows if they are continually updating the PR, and just not publishing it? Who knows exactly what they use PR for? We have a fairly good understanding of what PR represents, but how and where google uses it is still amystery.

[arunaaa]

Page Rank update takes at least 3 to 6 Month. But its all depend on Google.

[smartware]

Usually Google updates webpage PR 3 to 4 times in a year. The last PR update was a week ago.

[seoservicesplus]

Site PR depends on google PR update. And normally google PR updation repeat every 3 month and 4 times in a year. If your site having good quality and informative content, so it surly gets Google PR soon. Good luck Thanks

[eoocbox]

Google has been updating the rank, have never stopped

[snakeair]

Originally Posted by eoocbox

Google has been updating the rank, have never stopped

Any thoughts on the thread creators initial post?

[Turkey Property]

Originally Posted by jjmcd82

If you publish a page two days before the PR update, it will show PR in two days. If you publish two months before the update, it will take two months.

I agree completely. I have seen threads on different forums along the lines of " I got PR3 in 21 days, this is how I did it". It is simply down to the time span between the date of publishing of the page and the date of publishing of PR.

I launched a site last November, just after the November PR update, and linked to it from my related existing PR4 and not much else. In the February update, no surprise, it was given PR3. If I'd delayed the launch until January I am sure it would still have got a PR3, and then I could say I had done it in 2 weeks.
It really doesn't mean too much.

[stephengfm]

Originally Posted by Turkey Property

I agree completely. I have seen threads on different forums along the lines of " I got PR3 in 21 days, this is how I did it". It is simply down to the time span between the date of publishing of the page and the date of publishing of PR.

I launched a site last November, just after the November PR update, and linked to it from my related existing PR4 and not much else. In the February update, no surprise, it was given PR3. If I'd delayed the launch until January I am sure it would still have got a PR3, and then I could say I had done it in 2 weeks.
It really doesn't mean too much.

My experience is that the PR is known by Google. Google just doesn't display it to the rest of us peons.

[Turkey Property]

Originally Posted by stephengfm

My experience is that the PR is known by Google. Google just doesn't display it to the rest of us peons.

Yes, Matt Cutts has indicated that it is calculated more or less continuously, but it is only published at intervals to prevent webmasters "obsessing" over it and checking it e.g. every day.

[HTMLBasicTutor]

Do you guys not read the sticky threads?

Page Rank: What It Is, What It Isn’t and How To Get Some

Why aren't the Google Toolbar PageRank values updated more often?

Closing this to stop the hemorrhaging of parrot replies.