It has been quite a long time and Google has still not declared the Google PR to the hardworking blogging and webmaster community. Almost 5 months since the last update and Google seems to be practicing an unlikely habit of procrastination.

Anyways, one thing is for certain and that is, we can expect the Google PageRank update anytime. Most probably the update will come to the end of this month. Many webmasters are making a last ditch attempt at building more quality links from high PR websites.

Many other webmasters are working in reverse. Instead of gaining external links, they are reducing the number of links that are present in their site’s home page. This will allow them to reduce the leak of page rank to other pages. For example I have myself reduced quite a few outgoing links from my home page in terms of:

• Top Commentators is reduced to 3
• Blogroll is trimmed to only 1 link.

On the other hand, other webmaster and bloggers are ensuring that they are not making any dangerous backlinking mistakes that could end up penalizing their Google Page Rank instead of seeing it increase.

I wish best of luck to all the readers of this blog who are also webmasters on a great Google Page Rank. Let me know your views below.

One of the most common misconceptions by bloggers is that linking out will reduce your page rank. There is no truth in this fact. It is the right of a webmaster to link out to blogs or websites that he finds worthy. There are examples of many blogs and websites in the internet that link out to many sites and yet have a PR 7 or PR 6.

This myth initially started when Google started hitting hard on blogs that linked out to blacklisted and poor websites (Adult, Malware, Blackhat SEO etc.). These sites were called link farms, since, they simply linked out to a huge number of websites without any relation to their own niche. Neither did the website linking out have any quality content. So these linkfarms began to get blacklisted in Google’s index.

Another controversy that promoted this myth was when Google started punishing those who sold static html links on their blogs. This helped the publisher gain money and advertiser generate link juice for his website. Google did not like this manipulation and screwed the Page-rank of many good blogger. Although, most of them did get back their pagerank at the next Google PR update.

But when bloggers like us who create content that is good there shoudl be absolutely no fear of linking out. In fact, linking out is very important to create a give and take community. And to provide more information to readers.

Have you any idea how many blogs and websites pro-bloggers like Daniel Scocco and Darren Rowse have linked out? Thousands of them. So don’t worry about linking out.  Spread link love and let your website grow.