PageRank Inconsistent? What is wrong?

page rank

[leef50]

Well I am at a total loss. My site <snip> seems to show inconsistent pageranks. If I type the URL directly into a Browser it seems to show up my page rank correctly however sometimes if I click a link to my site say from AOL or GOOGLE the page rank is shown as 0. If I navigate through my site and go back to home it seems to show the correct page rank. Other pages within the site behave like this to during navigation around the site. Further navigation to other pages and back to the page showing this problem seems to correct this. My current rank on index.php is 4. Any ideas? This is really starting to annoy me now.

Lee

[edited by: NFFC at 11:01 am (utc) on Sep. 28, 2002]
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[Nick_W]

Quite normal during an update. Relax, it'll all settle down in a few days ;)

Nick

[leef50]

thanks for the speedy reply... so this happens all the time then? I dont see this problem on any other sites ive been visiting... just mine? And like I said its not always 0... if I go to page A it may be 0 then if I goto page B and then back to A it shows correct PR. Is this normal "during update" behavior then?

[Nick_W]

Is this a relatively new site? I have one that got indexed but no PR last month and this month -- Yesterday PR5 - Today PR0

Seen it before but it only seems to happen on newish sites...

Nick

[leef50]

Well, we used to operate under a different domain but we lost it... we started using our site under the new domain name in June of this year so yes I guess it is newish... do I need to worry?

[Nick_W]

Shouldn't think so. If it's still PR0 in a week - Worry. Otherwise, forget about it and do someting more productive ;)

Nick

[Marcia]

Welcome to WebmasterWorld, leef50.

>My current rank on index.php is 4.

Is there also index.html? And do the internal pages on your site have links to www.yourdomain.com/index.html or www.yourdomain.com/index.php or www.yourdomain.com/ or just index.php?

How about inbound links, how exactly are most of the URLs in those written?

[leef50]

Well... ALL internal links link to the index page index.php... I dont have any other index pages within my root. Links from other sites point to [mydomain.net...] Now... the site uses:

index.php?dir=DIRECTORYNAME&page=PAGENAME

Do you think this would be causing problems? I feared this and changed my links page to a seperate page and used that for testing... it seemed to have no effect and page rank was still inconsistent... ie. sometimes links.php has PR 3 and sometimes it has PR0. V.Strange

[ciml]

It used to be that I'd expect Toolbar PR chart stability once I get stable results on www.google.com

This time, I'm not seeing that. I expect that it's because of load balancing on the Toolbar PR servers. Either that, or Google are having fun with us.

[martinibuster]

Actually, this happens for everybody's sites. It might be that the pageview is from your cache.

[leef50]

it seems to be all working fine now:) thanks to all that have responded.

[Nick_W]

Yesterday PR5 - Today PR0

I appear to have settled at 5 now ;)

Nick

[chris_f]

The other classic sign of jumping pr is if you mistake domain pr with page pr.

For instance:

www.domain.com - will show the domain pr

HOWEVER

www.domain.com/index.html - will show the homepage pr

Same page, different pr

Chris.