Weird PR 0 on my site

Having trouble with a PR 0 on my site

[SouthPaw]

I'm a little worried about a page on my site. When you click on it from one link on the main site, it has no PR at all (gray). But from another link on the same web page, it has a PR 0? Not sure what is causing this. If you look at the page at example.com/wedding/biography is has a gray PR, but if you click on it thru the page example.com/wedding/weddingparty (link on the bottom of the page) it shows it as a PR 0 ??? Very odd and scary.

[edited by: ciml at 12:03 pm (utc) on July 10, 2002]

[fathom]

Hi SouthPaw and Welcome to WebMasterWorld.

First, your posted URL will be politely removed from the forum and replace with <snip>. It is best to place your URL in your profile as the policy of WMW prohibits URL's in the forum.

I did have a look however, and I wouldn't worry about this.

Google had just started indexing your site and the page in question currently is an orphan. That is... since google hasn't indexed your complete site it doesn't have a complete picture.

PR is gained by links from other sites linking to you (or to the page, and each page). It is likely that when google comes back your PR could improve provided that you do have links pointing to you.

However, PR is built on links to you so you will need to have other sites linking. Notwithstanding a PR0 isn't bad in your case, you are definitely not spamming and will likely get a PR1 once your site is completely indexed.

By the way CONGRADULATIONS!

Rod

[SouthPaw]

Thanks for the info! I just thought it was weird that it was gray on one entry and pr0 on another. Thanks again!

[fathom]

No problem.

[eplus]

It's because one of the links has a www. at the beginning and the other one doesn't, google seems to see this as meaning two different pages and you get two different page ranks for it (as one is technically a sub domain). Just try adding the www at the beginning of the url and watch the page rank magically reappear. Lots of hosts have it configured nowadays so that you don't need to use the www. subdomain convention in your url but I'd advice you to always use it so that your page rank isn't going to two seperate pages.
Kind regards
roger
P.S. I tie the knot in five weeks time so I'm sure I'll be doing the same thing with a site as you are very soon. Oh and congratulations.