It appears Google chose to wind up the year 2008 with a Toolbar PageRank update. After seeing many sites reporting changes in their Toolbar PageRank, I decided to check site’s PR. I am glad to report that this blog has moved from PR3 to PR4. This is a great achievement especially when you consider the fact that this domain is just one year old.
As I was migrating my blog from Google blogger, I lost all my PR such that I began the year 2008 with PR0. It’s great to begin the year 2009 with PR4.
Two years ago, I used to think that Toolbar PR is not important as long as your posts rank well in search engines. But with time, I have discovered that Toolbar PR is important. Traffic issues aside, blogs/sites with high PR are considered to be more credible by many people.
Fellow webmasters and bloggers, I would like to know how your sites have fared in this PageRank update. Feel free to share your New Year resolutions as well.
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a Trackbackohh, glad to hear it, my blog its now have pagerank 3
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Clement Nyirenda says:
January 2nd, 2009 at 12:29 pm
@Busby SEO Test: Congrats. What was your PR before this update?
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Pagerank is a good indicator of ranking capability. It’s good you got a New Year’s gift.
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Hi Clement!
Congrats for the successfull PR update of your blog. Some of my blogs got up too, some down.
Niche blogs especially in languages that are not English are a lot more difficult to promote than English ones. Well I guess I take that as an excuse, because I kind of neglected my German Blogs in not posting enough this last year. Well it’s more inspiring to write for an international readership and to get more responses from all around.
At PR update time it’s also interesting to take a look at the PRs of the social profiles. For example this time I was (am) happy at the rise of my profile at lifestream.fm where I haven’t actually done much but just fed my feeds into.
When people look ones name up in the search engines they also come to these profiles and from there to ones content.
All in all I’m happy with this update. So … best wishes!
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Clement Nyirenda says:
January 2nd, 2009 at 12:32 pm
@wilbau:I really envy you. Your work rate online is tremendous. Up to now, I do not know the number of blogs and profiles that you have online. In my case, I only have the Japan sub domain blog, apart from this one. I know that when someone has multiple blogs like that, some will go up while some will go down.
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Hi Mr. Clement, how do you do today?
while before is 0 coz my site is still new.
Congrats for your PR update! Hmm… I don’t know when google has updated PR, When was it exactly? my PR still 2
I think I’ll follow Wilbau’s idea on lifestream.fm.
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Clement Nyirenda says:
January 2nd, 2009 at 11:53 pm
@Evyta:It means your site’s PR has not changed in the current PR update. What is so special about Busby SEO Test? I would have easily deleted your comment because I thought it was spammy.But after second thoughts, I approved it.
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thank for replying, my PR before is PR0, I am so happy now
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Clement Nyirenda says:
January 2nd, 2009 at 11:48 pm
@Busby SEO Test: Wow!From PR0 to PR3. That’s a huge leap. Wishing you all the best in 2009.
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Congratz on the PR increase. That just shows hardwork + persistance pays off. Keep it up for 09!
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Clement Nyirenda says:
January 2nd, 2009 at 11:46 pm
@mmo:Thanks! This year promises to be good for me blogging wise.
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Hi, Congrat… that’s an excellent achievement.
I used to have PR3 but my blog was lowered to PR1 in Dec update, I am so sad and I am now trying to figure out what happened.
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Clement Nyirenda says:
January 2nd, 2009 at 11:41 pm
@InvestMoneyLab: Sad to hear that. But do not be dismayed by this experience.Keep on writing quality stuff. I wish you all the best as we go into 2009.
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I know alot of other blogs are waiting to be reranked by google
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Clement Nyirenda says:
January 3rd, 2009 at 3:01 am
@Steve:Why? Were they penalized for selling text links?
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Congratulations, I have recently had my site updated to PR4 too, got a feeling its not easy to get to PR5. Don’t see alot of sites PR5 or higher.
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Clement Nyirenda says:
January 3rd, 2009 at 4:24 am
So you also got a PR4. Congrats! In my case, I will now work very hard and see if I can get PR5 next time.
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My Congratulations, I wish your web site get to PR5.
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Congrats!
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I was a bit surprised because of the update date but I keep the green bar off so I noticed the update a few days later.
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Clement Nyirenda says:
January 3rd, 2009 at 5:52 pm
@Steve Martin: I too keep the green bar off. But I am usually one of the first people to learn about PR updates because I have connections with a number of SEO professionals. I have also subscribed to a number of top SEO blogs.
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Oh sorry Mr. Clement, I didn’t think about it. I found your site in google when I search about something, I forgot what’s that exactly. I’ve left a comment a month ago here on your post about technology laboratorium? but I don’t know whether my comment appeared or not. No problem Mr. Clement, I understand. But I hope we can build a friendship between blogger. Nice to know you
I’ll use Evyta only, and thanks for approving my comment.
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Clement Nyirenda says:
January 3rd, 2009 at 11:56 pm
@Evyta: No problem my friend. Don’t worry.I am always fighting spammers on this blog.Its good for me to learn that you are a real person and that you are honestly interested in our mutual development in the blogosphere. I will be visiting your blog regularly from now onwards.
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Congrats!! I think your blog have quality content that’s reason your page rank increase. Keep it up good work!
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Clement Nyirenda says:
January 5th, 2009 at 9:38 pm
@Custom Web Design:Thanks! Wishing you all the best in your web services business in 2009.
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Congrats on your PR increase.
It is always nice to see improvement in PR as it is pure result of hard work.
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Nice job! My congratulations! Your blog is really interesting and useful! Thanks for the info you share!
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Congrats, keep it up,
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Congratulation for PR update..same as myblog. Lets keep this.
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Clement Nyirenda says:
January 7th, 2009 at 6:50 pm
@bandisusi: Thanks and congrats for your PR4 as well.
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My site stayed a PR4 thought I would get a pr5 this update congrats on the pr4 keep working on getting a higher PR I am going to get a PR5 next update
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Congrats Clement Nyirenda! It is really good news your blog page rank increase. Good Work.
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WOW, getting PR3 is the easy part. Taking it up a point is not an easy feat, considering the fact that your blog is dofollow. Well done, Clementi.
Follow you from the comment you’ve left at mastersofseo.com.
Yan
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Clement Nyirenda says:
January 13th, 2009 at 7:45 pm
@Blogging Tips: Now I working hard so that I should get PR5 in the next update. Does dofollow have a negative effect on PR?
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Oh I forget. I’ve added you into my PR list too.
Yan
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Clement Nyirenda says:
January 13th, 2009 at 7:45 pm
@Blogging Tips: Thanks for adding my blog to the list.
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I’m really looking forward to exploring your blog in more detail and perusing around the many, varied topics of interest – this is a beautifully laid out information resource and is exactly what a very good blog should look like, serving highly useful content to it’s users.
You deserve this page rank lift and we wish you all the very best with all of your worthy endeavours, long into 2009!
Please keep up the excellent work!
All the very best with our kindest regards.
Mark & TheMoneyForum.org Team Members
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Congratulations. I am happy for you and at the same time envious too! You will see why if you go to my blog.
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My blog moved from PR 0 to 3 and I’m happy about it though your experience of losing all PR after moving to ur own domain name has scared me a bit. Was planning to shift to own domain from blogger before March 2009.
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Clement Nyirenda says:
January 15th, 2009 at 4:41 pm
@Jhangora: You do not have to be scared. I later realized that it was possible for me to move my blog from Google blogger to a self hosted domain without losing PageRank. But it was too late. You can search on Google for some tutorials on this issue.
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That would be cool. To have own domain name and retain all the links and rankings. Thanx for the prompt reply Nyirenda. Would definitely search Google and share me experiences with u and readers of this blog. Cheers!
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How do you get your pagerank up that fast? I have my site and blog both still sitting at pagerank2 and been trying to push it up for the last year
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Hi Randy if that question was aimed at me, I’d say I didn’t have much idea about Page Rank. Read a few blog posts about it but don’t have any startegy even now to increase it.
I guess what helped me is commenting on all blogs which commented on mine. Also I like collecting links which made the outbound link count on my blog go really high. I have been exporting those links to Delicious under different tags/categories and then providing a link to that Delicious category.
I downloaded the White Paper on Google Page Rank by Ian Rogers after discovering my blog had a Page Rank and found it very useful in understanding what are the fundamentals behind Page Rank and how it works.
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On the Page Rank issue, try to get as many other High Page Rank Links putting to your site so that you are seen as an authority expert in your niche area.
For example, try getting PR5 links and above if you possibly can.
Try to get links that are related to your subject matter also helps.
When putting a link on a blog, make sure that you always include the www part of the URL address, like this:
http://www.TheMoneyForum.org
Try to use some of your keywords within your blog comments, for example, in my case, ‘make money online’ or ‘online income’.
Try to use keywords that have a high number of search volumes per month, anything over 500 is ok, preferably though in the thousands whilst also using keywords that have as low as possible, a competing number of websites vying to use that keyword / long tailed keyword of choice.
To search your keywords, go to Google and type in to the search box, Google Keyword Tool.
Click on the first link on page one when it appears in the results.
On the next page type in your keyword of choice, for example: Making Money
Then fill in the captcha code / word just below, then click on: Get Keyword Ideas
Do not adjust any other settings on the above page.
On the results page, scroll down the list. You will see on the left hand side a whole bunch of keywords in a column. Next to that, just to the right will be a box showing the Advertiser Competition, next to that will be a number and next to that again, another number. This is the monthly and average search volume of people typing that keyword / long tailed keyword into Google.
So, you find one that has for example, over 500 searches per month ok.
Now, go to File, click on New Tab, go to Google.com and type that keyword into the search box inside “inverted commas” and click submit.
When the results show, look to the right near the top of the page where it says that it took x seconds, amount of time to deliver the data, ignore that. Alongside that will be a figure, for example 180,000 (it’s often in the millions for very strong keywords).
So, you want to find at the Google Keywords Tool website higher than 500 searches per month for any one keyword / long tailed keyword (two words or more) and a competing number of websites using that keyword of less than 200,000
Depending on how good you are at SEO, you might want to only consider competing for keyword/s of less than 50,000 – The 200k figure given above is the highest you want to go for on average.
With practice, you can find all of this out in just a few seconds. There are other tools online too, which can assist you with this.
If you want more even more traffic, consider setting up minisites to complement your main website or blog. Each minisite will have 4 keywords, these act like satellite sites to your mainsite and they will give you a much greater scope online to use many keywords that your main site does not use. I personally have about 20 or so satellite minisites for each of my main websites or blogs.
The point is, is that the satellite minisites all stand a very good chance of getting into that number one position on their own merit, for the 4 keywords used on each one. The content on each minisite will have a link to my main site placed upon it in a very obvious location.
This acts as a funnel, directing the traffic to my main blog or website.
It’s referred to as funnel marketing, try it out for yourselves, it really does work very well indeed and can only help to increase your page rank on your blog or main site adopting this strategy.
Each minisite will have it’s own unique content based on the 4 keywords being targeted, related to my main blog. Each satellite takes me no more than 60 seconds from start to finish to completely set in motion from the start of the design to it’s launch online, for 9 full pages. Yes, you did read that right. The content is all outsourced, I just copy and paste the content in, make a couple of changes to the config code etc etc, employ the use of RSS aggregators on each WordPress based satellite blog theme and Bob’s your uncle.
I hope some of these tips prove to be useful to onee or two of you.
Kindest regards and best wishes!
Mark – http://www.TheMoneyForum.org
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My blog PR has remain the same 5, from the previous PR update.
Cheers
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thats great…i have just started my blog so its PR is 0…any tips how to increase it asap?
Vicky Advani
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hurray…
my PR was 1 in the last update but it has gone up to 3…great…
cheers..
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My PR is falling from PR3 to PR2,but in SERP I have a better results.
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Clement Nyirenda says:
January 26th, 2009 at 12:56 pm
@trebinje leotar: There is one thing that I do not understand about PR. They tel us that PR will increase if you get “dofollow” links from high PR sites, right? And with time, the number of links that you acquire increase naturally. Therefore, PR should always be increasing. It surprises me to see PR drops. Is it because of paid links?
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I keep hearing that PR doesn’t really matter any more for search engine results (or at least much less than it used to).
@trebinje leotar – it looks like this happened to you. Has anyone else had a similar experience?
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Clement Nyirenda says:
January 26th, 2009 at 12:53 pm
@Black Jack: If PR is not important, this post would not have been this popular!
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@Black Jack: Do not be deceived. PR matters especially if you want to make it big in the e-economy. I recall there was a huge outcry towards the end of 2007 when Google penalized many sites which were selling links.
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Congrats for all those who got Increment on this new year Google updates. I also have good increment in My website PR it was on PR 3 in 2008 but on this new year Updates Google give its PR 4 and i am really happy with this.
Thanks Clement Nyirenda for this post and congrats on Your website PR Increment.
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Congrats on the PR. I know I am not supposed to care about my PR, but it has gone down over the years on a few of my sites and IT MAKES ME SO MAD. I hear it doesn’t matter what your PR is, and then I hear it does, and on and on. All I know is that a nice green bar sure would look great on my sites.
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congrats..
I got a PR 3 too. I was hoping for a PR 5 but a 3 is definitely good. but 4 is a lot better..heheh..
Congrats! u deserve it!
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Congratulations!
But I have PR3 and after that update it has been PR0 =(((((((((
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Congratulations Clement.
PR 4 is a big achivement.
You’re are rolling with the big boys now
Rob
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Clement Nyirenda says:
February 1st, 2009 at 12:33 am
@dimagrire: Thanks. Not yet up there with the big boys but slowly getting there.
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Congratulation. Great work and i hope your site getting again good pr.
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Hi Clement, what a great site you have here. I’ve been reading your blog for 5mins now, I can’t believe it. That means its really good for me to stay in one site for that long. Keep up the good work and will come back again. Thanks Monica.
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I do not know if Google updates the pagerank, but I already has over 1 years with a PR4, every time Google does not put it more difficult to attract visitors to our site, Google wants all the web traffic for them, is not just be left to compete and I am trying to get by with Google Adsense.Pero really earn a pittance if you have it 5 to attract more visitors.
Greetings.
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Well I have a brand new site (Jan 2009) and the google toolbar still shows me as PR0 the LivePR firefox shows me as PR1.
I am hoping that its a sign of things to come.
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Congratulations on your page rank. You have an excellent blog.
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Congratulations, Clement, on your PR growth! it is a great achievement indeed, boosting your PR from 0 to 4 in one year, especially for a personal blog, which is interesting, by the way
I think I’ll find some time later to come back and read it! cheers and keep up the good work! I’m always happy for good bloggers who get rewarded by the search engines 
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Hmmmm, Next PR update is ready to happen now in march. Let’s see this result
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congratulation bro, salam from Indonesian Blogger
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Hi, congratulations on your blog achieving a pr 4
Its a great a rare feat.
Enjoy the best of it
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Hello!
Very Interesting post! Thank you for such interesting resource!
PS: Sorry for my bad english, I’v just started to learn this language
See you!
Your, Raiul Baztepo
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Hey,
Now after 3 months from 31st Dec 08, Google finally update my site’s PR as on 2nd April 09.
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On the eve of April fools day Google updated the toolbar page rank again on 1st April 2009. This time they filtered more back links. Previously i have around 70 now i have less back links for my site. However site rank well on all top keywords. It seems google backlinks scheme updated too. It still loves article links as i did for my site. I implemented news section and rss feeds on the site which rocks well and may be the reason of ranking my all keywords.
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My pagerank is 3.
Do you know how often they update it?
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Google updates 4 times in a year. Some time it takes 100 days and some within 70.
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My PR is back PR3 to PR4,but in SERP I have a bad results.
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Congratulations achieving a PR4 is exponentially harder than a PR3, on my website
vancouver limousine I still just have a page rank of 3 but i am hoping if i keep at it i will get to a 4 by next year, im thinking of adding a blog.
all the best
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My blog is a meager PR2 so it’s hard to tell if there was a major effect on traffic. There wasn’t really a major bump in traffic. Everything just stayed….steady.
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Clement Nyirenda says:
July 1st, 2009 at 12:58 pm
@Glenn Torres: Keep writing good stuff. Of course commenting on dofollow blogs is good. But if your blog has good stuff, people from high ranking blogs and sites will prop you up without you jumping from site to site, leaving comments. Your PR will grow as you continue to collect back links from sites within your niche.
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When is the next update?
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Google is now updating PR much more often.
results also are update more often
sometimes my post show up in minutes
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Congratulations to you, just hope you make it to PR5 now. I have a PR2 blog that hasnt moved up in a long time, i hope it will in the next update
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Congrats Nyirenda!! I am a new blogger & eagerly awaiting 2009 update
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Congratulations on good PR i am also done every thing regarding search engine optimization and now in wait for Google next update. Thanks for the post and share you PR increment with us.
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Wooo! I’m not even at one yet lol. Congrats on your success
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Congrats! My site is also PR4 but I’ve been trying to take it to the next level for some time now. Hopefully on the next update I’ll get there. I guess that age of the site may have something to do with it too. Good luck!
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