Have you noticed changes in your rankings?

[BlogDiva]

For those sites that are content farms, Google is fighting back. From the Google Blog Thursday:

Finding more high-quality sites in search

"in the last day or so we launched a pretty big algorithmic improvement to our ranking—a change that noticeably impacts 11.8% of our queries—and we wanted to let people know what’s going on. This update is designed to reduce rankings for low-quality sites—sites which are low-value add for users, copy content from other websites or sites that are just not very useful. At the same time, it will provide better rankings for high-quality sites—sites with original content and information such as research, in-depth reports, thoughtful analysis and so on."

Has anyone noticed any changes? This is good news for those of us that offer quality content!

[QuirkyJessi]

I haven't noticed any changes yet myself, but I suppose that means at least I didn't get pushed further down in the ranks.

[MrPolarZero]

well, I haven't noticed any changes in my rankings so far. But I'd still want to thank you for sharing this update. At least I'll be ready if any changes occur.

[ChickenFreak]

Woohoo! I hope that this means that Google is finally dropping the spinning and auto-blogging sites on the floor.

[ChickenFreak]

Sadly, Rambling Chicken lost its paltry PR1 and is now an N/A - no doubt based on old criteria, not new, because I don't do any of the stuff that the new criteria are intended to punish. (And because ChickenFreak's Obsession, run on exactly the same rules, didn't drop at all.) I dropped well below a post a week, and I changed topic midstream, so it serves me right. Somehow I find that fact reassuring.

Interestingly, Rambling Chicken with its N/A PR still gets slightly more traffic than ChickenFreak's Obsession with its PR 3. I'm vaguely guessing that RC is in the "personal blog" niche (huge) and CO is in the "perfume blog" niche (tiny).

Yeah, I'm rambling.

[Melody]

My own page rank has gone up and down. StarbucksMelody.com (link in signature) is now a PR4. It was a PR3, then jumped to a PR4, then down to a PR3 again, now a PR4 again. I'm sure it is because of backlinks, some of which have been news and high ranked blogs.

[OxalisWombo]

I'm an observational humor blogger, and because all my content is original, the change has actually bumped up my rankings by topic.

[Educator]

Thanks for this notice, blogDiva.

I just checked and our:

• Home Page remaind a GPR3
• Our Energy & Water Savings page remained a 4
• Our pages which and some text and pic's and then provide links to related articles were reduced from a GPR 3 ro a 2

I'll have to check some individual posts.

Is there a way of simply getting the listing of a site's many, many pages / posts vs one at a time Page Rank Checker?