On New Years Eve…or sometime around there the folks at Google did another update on the Google Page Rank algorithm giving us all something to talk about on New Years Day.

I’ve been doing some research on the subject and trying to figure out how GrandmasterB dot com compared with other blogs in my network of friends, and how their blogs faired after the update. To give you a little bit of a background, this site has improved in Page Rank each of the past three updates prior to January 1, 2009.

After the June 2008 update, the site was given a whopping Page Rank of 1 out of 10. Not to bad for a blog less than three months old, and I was very happy with the result. Each subsequent update, the site improved one point on the Page Rank scale and settled in at 3 out of 10. During this past update though…the main page stayed put at 3.

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