Alright, there’s a huge group of trolls that flood on all SEO and webmaster forums by askiging the same (or very similar) questions since at least three weeks:
- When my PageRank will be updated?
- I cannot see new PageRank on my sites, what’s wrong with it?
- Guys I’ve noticed PageRank update on some of my sites, I won’t give you the URLs but I’m sure PR update has already taken place! So what do you think?
Finally I’ve decided to confess - yes, I did it. I captured Google spider when he was hanging around on one of my sites. Now there won’t be any PR updates to the end of this year. Feel sorry for that, my previous pet escaped and you know I do really like arachnids.
The picture was made by me yesterday. When I was looking outside of the window I found a brown spider rambling on the wall, honesty it was pretty difficult to figure him out and get to know that his name is Araneus angulatus. My crawler might be pretty rare, I guess 
PS: This post was inspired by folk that asked “how can I lock the Google Spider in my website?“. My answer is - it’s enough to use jar, like me. Srsly, it will work I do promise! Just stop asking people about damned update of PageRank and all other hopeless questions…
PS2: Matt Cutts will be next haha
August 18th, 2007 #
Can I borrow the spider please? I moved to a new domain and the page rank hasn’t been updated. I permanent redirected and all.
August 18th, 2007 #
No, catch another one on your own. This arachnid is destined to crawl my lyrics websites
BTW Google spider is pretty picky. He’s completely not interested in eating cold meat and I’m forced to bring him alive insects haha
August 19th, 2007 #
The stupidity some people exude towards PR updates is insane. If your site hasn’t updated, it’s definitely not going to. This was like early August, updating with the info from mid-late July.
Good to see the spider’s alright, though. I always thought it would be bigger
August 19th, 2007 #
Today I wasted one hour on hunting for grasshoppers. Seems the Google spider is much more picker than I’ve used to think, he doesn’t even condescend to attack and now I do have one jar with arachnid and another one with an awesome collection of seven grasshoppers.
Fine, if I wake up tomorrow and figure out that grasshoppy in the spider’s jar would not belly up, I think I will make them all free. It’s too difficult to catch flies alive
August 21st, 2007 #
My site not updated? Connor, I update every day. However I realised that the people linking to me hadn’t updated their links.
August 21st, 2007 #
Marc, I was talking about the site’s PR. If it hasn’t updated, it won’t have another chance until the next update.
August 21st, 2007 #
Marc: Just set 301 redirects. If you don’t know how there’s a Wordpress plugin that might do it for you without digging in the code
August 23rd, 2007 #
Ah yes, Connor. The updates seem to be half yearly or something.
Florchakh, I have. That’s why my Blogspot PR jumped to my old domain right away sometime in 2006.
August 23rd, 2007 #
They are around quarterly, I believe.
August 23rd, 2007 #
It really should be dynamic. Dynamic in evaluating new sites. Changes to existing sites can perhaps be given lesser priority.
August 23rd, 2007 #
Marc: Alright, feel sorry for the muff. I noticed it when I was reading new posts on your blog yesterday
Connor: The spider in my jar is getting on so no PageRank updates for this year as I promised
Marc: You hit the point. It’s exactly what the text link buyer needs and the major reason why only Googlers know the the up-to-date value of PR…
August 27th, 2007 #
The PR update is ‘ment’ to be every 3 months, but its been about 4 since the last update.
August 28th, 2007 #
I think I have heard that one month ago some N/A were changed to 0. Guess it may confirm opinion posted by Connor in one of previous comments added to this post.
I bet on November