Google Page Rank Update

Recently, the Young Writers Society increased from a Page Rank of 4 to 5, which is nice but not extraordinary.  However, other portions of the site did very well, with both the YWS Blog and the 101 Tips for Writers moving from 0 to 4.  There’s actually a large number of pages now on YWS with a Page Rank of 4, which is very good.

Yet, not all sites fared as well!  Most notably, Writing.com fell from a PR 6 to a PR 4.  Of course, this largely means nothing from a practical standpoint, but it is funny that YWS now has a higher PR than that awkward behemoth.   Why the huge change for Writing.com?  Well it seems that the new Page Ranks no longer include paid links, of which Writing.com had hundreds.  YWS? Zero paid links.

Most of the other writing sites appeared to have fared well; notably Copyblogger which moved from PR 6 to PR 7.

Of course, there’s no telling how accurate the new Page Ranks actually are, and they are subject to change.  For instance, YouTube went from PR 8 to PR 3 before someone at Google noticed the boo-boo.