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Google PageRank is a live animal. Google Toolbar PageRank is not. Toolbar rank is updated approximately every three to four months. Today appears to be the day. Yesterday this site had a PageRank of 0/10, today it’s leapt to 3/10. It was about due. The last update was around September 2006. The website of my open source hosted applications business, Gladserv, which was launched a month ago, has jumped from nothing to 3/10 also.

There were other clues. I monitor the PageRank of sites under my control fairly carefully. None had changed at all in months. I was reading an article about PageRank updates yesterday which mentioned the PageRank checker: ezer.com. I’ve tried a few of these kind of sites before, and most of them are rubbish. Yesterday ezer showed mostly 0/10 for this site, with a few 3/10’s. Today it’s showing mostly threes and a couple of zeros. I guess the propagation of this update is almost complete.

My former software and web design business, Gladsoft (Gladsoft is dead! Long live Gladsoft!) has fallen off the PageRank charts completely. About time. For six months last year I had it displaying the apache test page. Late last year, as it still had a PageRank of 4/10, I decided to make it useful. I was still getting a large number of enquiries from people looking for web design services, so I put some Google ads up and a few links to companies I’ve dealt with that might be able to help them. Share the PageRank love, that sort of thing. There are still a good few sites out there linking to it, so I imagine it will resurrect itself Googlewise next time there’s an update.

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