Google has recently updated its page ranking system. If you run a website it is likely that your Google PageRank has decreased.

Page ranking was originally developed by Google and it is a system that ranks websites from 0 to 10, needless to say that the higher ranking a site has, the better it is seen by Google itself and other businesses online. Pageranks are determined by the quality of  the pages on a site and the links it has.

These recent changes, rumoured to be due to link selling and buying, has decreased the PageRank of a number of websites online, the BBC website for instance has seen its score go from 8 to 7. Pageranking is something that does not affect users finding you online, but it does affect how you are seen by your competitors, advertisers and stakeholders.

Some might see this as a form of cyber bullying by Google, but if you have to resort to buying links from higher ranked sites, what does that say about the quality of your web content?