Google update has been reported to have finished the major update for reporting the pagerank at the beginning of the month of May. A lot of sites that should have gone up or stayed at least the same didn’t and some even went down, but a lot of sites that were zero or 1 jumped up to a 2 or 3. It seems like there were probably some major changes done to their algorithm to calculate pagerank. You can find more information about the recent update at

Dollars Blog stayed the same at 3 although our site is less then 6 months old, but I speculate my site is too new for it to even get to the much more respected 4.

Coincidentally right before the update on May 1st I had done some SEO optimization on a large scale for dollars blog. I noticed a huge change in the amount of search engine keyword hits Dollars Blog has received since then. The amount of DIFFERENT keywords im getting from the search engine has jumped 275%/day then it was in april per day.

The moral of the story is for those who don’t wont to spend the time to do SEO and learn it, its worth every minute! I honestly couldn’t believe how fast my keyword hits jumped overnight. I’m not sure how much the google update played a role since it just happens that i did all the optimization before the major update. Maybe there was an algorithm change in how google ranks the SERP’s that also happened to help me too. I have read others in the past say that their rank in the search engines for google improved significantly right after a major update.