Google has again updated their toolbar page rank which was already announced by mattcutts yesterday and i can find that there was a small drop on the homepage of this blog which dropped from PR5 to PR4 but well all the new sections like Career Guides, Apple Blog, Auto News etc recieved some Page Rank which is better than the unranked position because they were recently started.
You cannot directly find the updated page rank on your toolbar because it takes time for the datacenter to be updated and it can take from 24 hours to couple days but here is a small trick which a friend Sharat Jaswal gave me a neat 1 minute trick to make sure you can instantly start viewing the updated page rank on your Google Toolbar.
Click on Start > Run > C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc
Now you will be redirected to a windows directory named ‘etc’ with some files within it and you need to select the file called ‘hosts’ and open it in notepad.
You need to make sure that you open this file ‘Hosts’ in Notepad and add this following line at the end of the file which is generally below your local host ip.
209.85.173.147 toolbarqueries.google.com
Once you add the above link, save the ‘hosts’ file and restart your browser, and there you go with the latest Page Rank being shown on your toolbar. Now you dont need any page rank checker tools or scripts to check out the latest page rank because the above mentioned tricks works out 100 perfectly. Let me know if you get any problems in getting this thing done.
gr8 trick
giving it a try 🙂
ya this is a good techniques which i used to ban pop up and spam sites year later. I don’t remember it looks like the same way where you need to open a file and insert the address. It automatically block the sites from showing in the browser. I stopped using that coz we have new technologies now.
Well i don’t need to check my PR coz it is shown in my browser status bar.
I am not able to edit in windows vista 🙁
This is really a nice trick, to know the PR without installing any toolbars or visiting any sites for knowing the PR.Yes There’s been an PR update and i’ve lost my PR to 2 from 3.Iam not sure how much role the PR plays in determining the popularity of the site or blog.If you want to know many other vitals of your site you can check out http://www.xinureturns.com
gud trick..
my pr is 4:D:D:D
You can use this tool to check Google PR and more….
Hey
I guess its worth giving a try
but i have a problem.. my system says local host after the i.p. address so what should i do for it?
Delete it??
or just add the site before it..
HELP