PR penalties and such...

page rank penalties

[e2raygun]

Greetings-

How do you know if you've been penalized or not? Some of my pages have no PR value at all on the Googel toolbar, but are in the index. Before the last update they use to get soem traffic from Google, now none. There are only a few inbound links anyway so even if they did have PR it would me a small number. I just want to know if there is a way to verify that you definatle have a penalty or not. Just because you no page rank, does that mean there's a penalty?

Thanks!

[Marcia]

It doesn't necessarily mean there's a penalty, it can be not enough links with not enough PR. Links are generally to the homepage, with interior pages usually less. If all the pages of a site had PR4 or 5 and then PR disappeared, that could be cause for concern. It depends on where on the site particular pages are, how many links there are to them and the PR of the linking pages.