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November 13, 2007
I was checking my PageRank and bump into this mysterious number, 0/10. At first I feel terrified.
"What? How come my PageRanks are all 0? Did Google penalize me for something?"
Popular Tools Cause Surprise
It came to a calm-down when I check the PageRank for www.google.com, which also returned 0/10. Then I check PageRank for yahoo.com, johnchow.com, etc, all returned 0/10. The same results came from the following PageRank checkers:
Here is the result from CheckPageRank.com:
Here is the result from WhatIsMyPageRank.com
Then I felt OK, that means Google is doing something at their base that cause all PageRank. Or there maybe a technical breakdown somewhere with their API.
Less Famous Tools Still Functional
Today, I check again and surprisingly found that out of the first tools found while Googling, this BLOGFUX pagerank tool works. Here is the result from their page:
SEOOpen's Check Google PageRank tool also is functional, here is their result:
Conclusion
After all the guesses and worries, what really happen here is that there might be some changes made at the Google PageRank API that broke all those tools. Any thoughts?
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