#1 listing is page rank 0

[jrstark]

I have a page created in April, about a specific person. When I search google on the person's full name in quotes, my page is number 1 of about 430. (It's a fairly unique name.)

But the page rank according to the google toolbar is 0.

This page is linked off my home page, which is back down to 4 (has been 5). I have several "topic" pages in the nav bar on all pages, this particular page is also linked off one of these, its page rank is 3.

I've also noticed that other new pages are also page rank 0. How long does it take now until pages receive page rank?

In the past, pages seemed to inherit one number down from the page they were linked from. Is this a change in google, or did my site get big enough to bump into a different category? I have @1,500 pages now, one or two added every day.

I just checked three major sites in my industry. On two of them, pages created today have 1-2 ranks lower than the main page. One of them shows pr0 on new pages. It is the site with the highest pr on the main URL.

So should I worry about pr0 on pages within my site?

[Marcia]

It really doesn't pay to worry at this point in time. I've also got a fairly new site only a few months old with only the homepage showing PR and the rest PR0 but ranking fine. Others are reporting similar confusing results. Give it time and continue to focus on quality. With newer pages, even within establishes sites, PR0 seems to be a normal occurrence right now.

[tigger]

I'm the same as Marcia I've a site thats been online for 2 mths and it's number uno for most of my main keywords and every page is showing a PR0, the only problem is trying to build links

[annej]

Is pagerank even being updated anymore? All my newer pages seem to be set at 0 intstead of the old inherited rank. The lack of PR doesn't seem to affect the rankings in the serps though.

[tigger]

yes I've got a site that was PR0 now showing PR4 after the last update

[natural]

i have about 12 topical sites, launched in the last couple of months, ranking quite well, and all showing pr0.

i agree that the only problem is trying to get people to link to you, who know about pr, but who don't know about this pr0 thing that's going on with google.

<shrug>

as long as the serps are there, it's all good i suppose.

[taxpod]

Not necessarily "all good." I had a person request to me to link to them and I ignored the request because they have one page white-barrd and another greyed. I assume they've done something and I don't have time to figure out what. But having said that, I am partially involved with two new sites (couple weeks) which are in the serps but one is white-barred and the other greyed. There is no SEO done on either site and nothing funny going on with them. If I requested links, webmasters are likewise going to wonder what I'm doing!

And so the whole mess gets googled up.

[Gus_R]

Same problem with my site, new(April), pr0 and I'm stuck waiting the green bar to make links. I don't want to waste good ones.

[DavidT]

My site was PR0 for a few months but as of a few weeks ago this was updated to a 2. Yet, I am outranking PR 5s and 4s, clearly in some cases, ie I'm #1, or just among them in other cases, ie top 5.

Point is, G seems to have updated the PR, to a 2, but I'm killing most of my competition who on average are 4s. That's just the index page of course. Internal product pages are 0s but this seems to have no effect on their ranking.

Either the PR I am seeing on my toolbar is not the 'real' thing, that is, G is actually using different PR values, or PR has very little consequence in the new Google. (And then, for how long?)