Webmasters tools - crawl stats update

Posted by multippt

Google has updated the crawl stats for PageRank allocated in each site, viewable via Webmasters tools. Well, that’s about all the news, nothing much really. Though, an interesting point of note is that Google hadn’t done the January update in the way it used to. It might be a tiny update, probably separate from the major ones, but it is still an update, nonetheless one that is done incompletely.

Despite all that temporary rush about the latest PageRank 2 weeks ago, it does seem that the PageRank of most sites will not change until the next update. Though, Google seem to do hit-and-miss, as apparently it didn’t update the PageRank of a large pool of sites. Some sites like Technorati got it by the hit-and-miss bug, causing it to be not ranked at all (it should be PR7-8 depending on the Google directory).

Seems like the only place where you can get an updated score is via the Google directory, which is more transparent at showing PageRank results (i.e. no penalties included). Though, that would only work for a handful of sites that didn’t get rejected by Open directory editors (the irony?).