The chatter in some search engine forums is that observers are seeing early signs that a PageRank update is about to take place.

Actually, the chatter was the end of last week and speculated that it would have taken place in the weekend that has just gone, but looking at recent PageRank update dates I chose to ignore them and instead expected a September update.

Why? Well recent updates have, on the whole, been early in the month and this weekend just seemed too late.

I’ve not heard of anyone talking much about any significant August updates to the values displayed, although I presume there were some slight changes (there usually are), so the September update (if everyone is correct) will be the first proper PageRank update since 3rd April.

I am sure that on Sunday morning many bloggers will be switching on their computers, going straight to their blogs and looking at that green bar to see if there has in fact been a September update. If there has, then we will find out whether Google is in the mood for punishing those selling paid posts or is just ignoring what is going on.

Either way, for those blogs that see an increase in position there will be joy at being able to charge more and those that see a decline in position will be upset that their potential advertising revenue has been cut.

As it is, for this blog anything must be an improvement. I started it too late to get a decent ranking before the April update and am hoping that September will see some improvements.

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