How to Check Latest Google Page Rank without any Tools

Google has again updated their toolbar page rank which was already announced by mattcutts yesterday and i can find that there was a small drop on the homepage of this blog which dropped from PR5 to PR4 but well all the new sections like Career Guides, Apple Blog, Auto News etc recieved some Page Rank which is better than the unranked position because they were recently started.

You cannot directly find the updated page rank on your toolbar because it takes time for the datacenter to be updated and it can take from 24 hours to couple days but here is a small trick which a friend Sharat Jaswal gave me a neat 1 minute trick to make sure you can instantly start viewing the updated page rank on your Google Toolbar.

Click on Start > Run > C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc

Now you will be redirected to a windows directory named ‘etc’ with some files within it and you need to select the file called ‘hosts’ and open it in notepad.

You need to make sure that you open this file ‘Hosts’ in Notepad and add this following line at the end of the file which is generally below your local host ip.

209.85.173.147 toolbarqueries.google.com

Once you add the above link, save the ‘hosts’ file and restart your browser, and there you go with the latest Page Rank being shown on your toolbar. Now you dont need any page rank checker tools or scripts to check out the latest page rank because the above mentioned tricks works out 100 perfectly. Let me know if you get any problems in getting this thing done.