In case you have not noticed, Google is in the middle of a PR and back-link update. Unlike most updates, this one is spreading slowly across Google’s many datacenters and seems to be only 75% finished. Many sites with PR updates going on still have multiple Pagerank numbers for the same page on different datacenters. Apparently, the lagging data centers are using a slightly older infrastructure for a few query types that are off the beaten path a bit (info:, link:, toolbar PR queries, etc.).

While it has been extremely busy lately, if you can get on the LinkAdage Metrics Checker you can see what direction your site may be moving. If you are in the middle of buying, selling or trading links, you may want to pay close attention to PR if you are one of the PR obsessed.

It is worth noting, that the SERP changes reflected in this PR update took place about a month ago, this update is only Google giving us their latest snapshot of website PR.