PageRank Oddity

Toolbar Bug or Something Different?

[JuniorOptimizer]

I have a website which has been active for about six months. The main page (index.php) has had PR almost since the beginning.

The site is a directory and used page names like "category.php?category=5" which should be okay for Google. There are over 1500 pages indexed in Google, so I assume the site is spider-friendly enough.

Here's the strange thing. None of the internal pages show PR when you click on links from the main page.

However, if you follow the links from the link: command on Google you will see Toolbar PR! If you copy and paste the link into the browser and try to revisit it, you will not see PR.

Does anyone have an idea why this is?

[doc_z]

There are problems with the PR displayed in the toolbar for dynamic pages with a '?'. Google consider these pages correctly during PR calculation, i.e. they are receiving and transferring PR as normal. However, the value shown in the toolbar isn't correct.

[Big Webmaster]

How long (in days) does it take for google to give you a place in their SERPS or at least a PR rating after they spider your site?

GB hit my site last 4 days in a row - only spidered 2-3 pages and then left. Still no indexing in their SERPS though.

Any clue?

[nanocet]

There's a directory out there that has a similar situation. I noticed that the difference is in the way the pages are referenced.
Google has them indexed and listed one way, but if you access it from the directory hierarchy, they actually are slightly different.

Google indexed as::
h**p://www.somedirectory.com/viewCat/11284

Directory hierarchy:
h**p://www.somedirectory.com/index.php?viewCat/11284

The second way has much higher PR.
Looks like it could be fixed easily enough with a proper rewrite command.

This may not be related at all. Do your pages have more than one way to be referenced like this?