Page Rank Checker News, PageRank Updates
On this page we'll publish the latest news of our checking page rank service and important updates
related to our PR check icon tool as
well as information about PR updates and public news dedicated to Google
PageRank™ technology that might be of interest to our visitors.
Quick links:
12-Aug-2011 - Facebook Like and Google
Plus One buttons 09-Jul-2010 - PRchecker v.2.0: new
web site design released24-Apr-2010 - We have upgarded
PRchecker.info server 02-Jul-2009 - Fighting spam-bots
v.2.012-Mar-2009 - Strange abuse attempts,
spam-bots29-Nov-2007 - PR Checker service abuse
and our actions27-Oct-2007 - Pagerank Update! - we've
been waiting so long..19-May-2007 - Grey Pagerank Bar - recent
changes at Google.13-Jan-2007 - Pagerank is "jumping" up
and down.. An update?16-Oct-2006 - Wow! It looks like
Google is updating pageranks now. 15-Jul-2006 - Google is in the
process of updating pagerank now.16-Jun-2006 - PRChecker tool has been
moved to a new web server!26-Feb-2006 - Google is updating
pagerank right now.28-Dec-2005 - Is Google "dancing"
(re-building page ranks) now?21-Dec-2005 - Online Page Rank
Checking tool has been improved21-Dec-2005 - We have completely
rewritten PageRank Icon code16-Dec-2005 - Page Rank Icon issue has
been resolved07-Dec-2005 - Technical difficulties
with page rank checking Icon01-Jun-2005 - Complaints about
non-working page rank checking Icon
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12 August, 2011 Facebook Like and
Google Plus One buttons
Today we have finally decided to implement Facebook Like and
Google Plus One buttons into PRchecker.info site to let our
visitors vote for our website at Facebook and Google.
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9 July, 2010 PRchecker v.2.0: new web
site design released
Today we have released the second version of PRChecker.info site design. In
v.2.0 of page rank checker site we have improved the look, feel and usability of
the web pages by adding some gradient graphics in the header, top and left
navigation as well as the footer navigation links.
We have also improved the general web page formatting, fonts, colors and
graphics on web pages to make clean, easy to understand and nice looking
contents on all pages of the site.
So that, we suppose that the new web design looks much more professionally
and now it is easier and much more pleasure to use PRchecker.info site and our
free pagerank tool.
And we hope you enjoy our new v.2.0 web design as much as we do :-)
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25 April, 2010 We have upgarded
PRchecker.info server
Today we have completed an upgrade of dedicated web server that serves
PRchecker.info site and pagerank checking tool. The new dedicated server is a real monster with
the latest dual quard core processor and a hip of RAM that very well improves
the performance of both online pagerank
checker tool and page ranking
buttons on all the web pages around.
According to the tests made, it all works much faster than it used to be
before upgrde.
So, we really enjoy the new PRChecker server, and hope you enjoy either
:)
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2 July, 2009 Fighting spam-bots
v.2.0
Regardless of strict anti-automated-use rules implemented, some guys still
attempted to use our service for their commercial (?) purposes by sending
multiple automated requests and thus abusing the service.. So, we finally
decided to move to "captcha" based anti-abuse protection that should cut off all
those spammers completely.Some of our users might dislike captchas, but
unfortunately, the use of those is probably the only effective way to stop
spam-bots. Anyway, we've done our best to develop a nice looking and easy to use
and understand captcha-based interface to check page ranking
instantly.We hope you enjoy our new developments :)
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12 March, 2009 Strange abuse attempts,
spam-bots
It has come to our attention that quite a few sites owners abuse our service
by requesting "showimage.php" script from their sites and thus
unnecessarily spending our bandwidth.It is still unclear if that is an
intentional abuse, or those guys simply do not realise that "showimage.php"
script DOES NOT check pagerank, but it only serves
internal images for PRchecker.info site internal purposes.
Anyway, it has been blocked from outside access.We also had to block few
major ISPs due to constant abuse by spam-bots from their networks. Now we are
considering to publish a blacklist - a list of spam-bot friendly networks.
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29 November, 2007 PR Checker service
abuse and our actions
Due to some huge abuse of our services by bots and other automated software
that produced excessive loads on our server, we had to re-design a bit our
services.Unfortunately, we had to stop offering PR
checking Icons (PR buttons) that are added to a web page using the HTML code
shown below, as the code turned out to be not abuse-safe.
So, the old page rank icons with the
HTML code (so called "alternative" code), such as
(please note "www.site-name.com") will not work any more. The PR buttons with
such codes now produce N/A or (?) pagerank, and they will completely stop
working in a month or so.
Please note: We recommend all the users of our paperank
checking icons to upgrade to the improved NEW pagerank buttons as soon
as possible.
» Upgrade now - install a new PR button on your
site
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27 October, 2007 Pagerank Update! -
we've been waiting so long..
It seems Google.com is in the process of updating publically available
pageranks!
So, we can see the page rank values are unstable now, and you might notice
those usual during the update pagerank "jumps" up and down, as well as some
different values shown by Google.com toolbar and by other tools that check the PR of web pages.
PRchecker.info tool is also affected by the update and might show different
("incorrect") page rank values during the update. You know, we can not affect
the updates :)
It seems our site is getting the PageRank 8/10 this update. This is a very good news!
And of course, we wish all the users of our free page ranks checking tool and
all the web site owners to get higher ranks during this update and further!
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19 May, 2007 Grey Pagerank Bar - recent
changes at Google.
We can see some changes in the way Google.com represent their pagerank for
the web pages that are not ranked yet or those that are
banned by Google for some reason.
For a long time Google used to show ZERO pagerank (page rank
0/10) for the not-ranked pages, and now they've changed their method of
representation.
Now NOT-ranked pages produce N/A (not available)
pagerank results, visually it is represented as a grey pagerank
bar upon the web page.
IMPORTANT: you can also see a
grey bar (N/A pagerank) if either Google or RP checking tool is not able to show
the pagerank due to slow connection between web servers. The internet is a
rather unstable system, and the connection issues happen quite often.
So, if you see a grey pagerank bar or N/A rank upon your web page, you should
not panic.
This probably means that the web page either is not ranked yet, or there was
some temporary error and Google's server could not return the current page rank
value, so the server said that "the page rank was not available for displaying
at that exact moment".
In order to make sure your web site is not banned by Google, you can search
Google for your site's address. If the address is in the search results, this
means the site is NOT banned and you can relax and not to pay any attention to
the temporary bug with N/A pagerank.
In this case everything should be back to normal state in 2-3 days.
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13 January, 2007 Pagerank is "jumping"
up and down.. An update?
Over the past few days and today we can see the values of page rank are "jumping" up and down.
Sometimes we can see zero values of pagerank at some web sites and pages that
used to be higher than zero. This is quite a strange behaviour of pagerank..
Anyway, it is very possible that Google.com has begun to update page ranks
again. We will post further updates here when they are available.
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16 October, 2006 Wow! It looks like
Google is updating pageranks now.
It seems Google.com is now in the process of updating publically available
pageranks.
As usually, the update can take up to several weeks, so we can see some
"jumps" of page rank values up and down, and different pagerank values are
sometimes shown by google toolbar and by other page ranking tools during the
update.
It looks like many web sites are going to get quite good page rankings this
update, and PRChecker.info wishes you to get the highest ranks for all your web
pages :)
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15 July, 2006 Google is in the process
of updating pagerank now.
Great! It's happened again! Google.com is now updating publically available
pagerank!
The update can take from several days and up to several weeks, so you might
see some pagerank "jumps" up and down during the update, as well as some
different page rank values shown by google.com toolbar and by any other tools,
including our PRchecker tool.
To celebrate this update we have added a new PR icon to our page rank checking tool, the very desirable
blog-style button, that looks like this:
And sure, PRChecker.info wishes you the highest values of pagerank for all
your web pages :)
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16 June, 2006 PRChecker tool has been
moved to a new web server!
We have noticed that our pagerank checking tool becomes more and more popular
each day.
So, in order to increase the speed of page rank checking and Pagerank Button tools and
to improve reliability of the page rank checking process, we
have decided to move our free PR tools to a new more powerful dedicated web server solution.
PRChecker.info is now hosted on a powerful 2x processor web server, and our
tools is now much more fast and reliable than they were before.
We hope you like these changes at PRChecker.info :)
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26 February, 2006 Google is updating
pagerank right now.
Wow! It fanally happened! Google.com is updating publically available
pagerank again!
The update usually takes 1-3 weeks, so you might see some pagerank "jumps" up
and down during the update, as well as some different page rank values shown by
google.com toolbar and by different pagerank tools, including our PRchecker
tool.
So, if you see you site's page ranking jumps up and down, or different ("not
correct") values of pagerank shown by different tools, just do not worry but
wait till google.com complete the update, and the values become stable
again.
PRChecker.info wishes you higher values of page rank for all your sites
:)
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28 December, 2005 Is Google "dancing"
(re-building page ranks) now?
It has come to our attention that at this time different
Google.com datacenters and servers shows different values of page
rank for the same web pages from time to time.
So it looks like Google.com is "dancing" now - they seem to
be in the process of updating their index and re-calculating the page rank
values for all web pages in their database.
This process usually takes between 1 (one) up to several
weeks, so you might see different page rank values for
the same web page during different periods of time, in different parts of the
world, at different Google.com web servers.
"Google Dance" (the pagerank jumping up and down) finishes as soon as they
complete their update and set the final page rank values for the next
period.
PRChecker.info will also show these page rank
"jumps" during the Google dance, so there is nothing to worry about,
that's not an error, but that are google.com database
updates.
We wish everybody Happy
Holidays!!and all the other best wishes, including some high PR for
your sites :)
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21 December, 2005 Online Page Rank
Checking tool has been improved
We have improved our Online Page Rank
checking tool to increase the speed and reliability as well as to
reduce the number of abusive and/or automated requests:
The most important changes we have implemented are the following:
a). Online PR Checker now ignores NOT valid web
addresses
b). Online PR Checker DOES support dynamic
URL's now. (marked with red color below). Example of Dynamic
URL: http://domain.com/index.php?cat=free&id=34&sd=11222
c). New and more user-friendly look of Online Page Rank Tool - check ranks now
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21 December, 2005 We have completely
rewritten PageRank Icon code
Due to the recent abuse (and thus some slow performance) we decided and by
the moment have completely rewritten all the code (software) in order to
increase the speed and reliability of our PR Checking Icon
tool. Now it should be SUPER fast and quite reliable.
In order to reduce abuse we have implemented some changes:
a). PR Checking Icon now ignores NOT valid web addresses
b). PRchecker.info does not support dynamic
URL's any more (marked with red color below). Example of
Dynamic URL: http://domain.com/index.php?cat=free&id=34&sd=11222
c). If for some reason PRchecker.info can not determine the current page rank
of the web page, it displays a blank button at that
moment, like the one below.
You will also see such image if you are behind the firewall and thus it blocks PR Checking Icon. The
solution is either to switch the firewall (blocking) off, or to find some better
firewall that does not block page rank checking icons ;-)
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16 December, 2005 Page Rank Icon issue
has been resolved
Due to the huge abuse from some Asian web sites our Page Rank Checking Icons
did not work properly recently. The issue seems to be resolved at this time,
however, if we keep getting increasing abuse, we will have to ban Asia from
using this service.
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7 December, 2005 Technical difficulties
with page rank checking Icon
At this time we have some technical difficulties with the correct work of
page rank cheking icon. It does not work properly. We expect to resolve the
issue soon and thank you for understanding.
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1 June, 2005 Complaints about
non-working page rank checking Icon
We have got several complaints that "the Google™ page rank checking icon does
not work correctly" and that "it always shows a zero value" of page rank. -
That's not correct!
Actually, Check page rank Icon does work OK and it shows
the correct PageRank™ value. The matter is that in order to get
a Google™ page rank of the web page, PR tool connects to www.prchecker.info web
site and determines the current page rank value of the web page.
However, nowadays modern firewall-type software (like Norton Internet
Security, ets.) and/or different ads-blocking software begins to block
external connections, so that software might also block the page rank
checker Icon, thinking it is an advertising.
In case the icon is blocked, it shows ZERO instead of the correct page rank.
So, if you faced this problem and want the check page rank icon to work
correctly for you, you might want to allow (to white-list, to enable)
www.prchecker.info in the firewall software and/or in the ads-blocking software
on your PC.
You can make sure this is the case by switching OFF your ads-blocking
software and reloading the web page where our checking page rank icon is
located.
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