help what is PageRank 0?

[scorpion]

I got some sites that show pagerank 0 on the toolbar. Does this mean it is blacklisted/penalized or that it is too new? If it is too new, it should read, not rated yet right?

Thanks, any experience would be appreciated...

[brotherhood of LAN]

PR0 can be when you have so little PR that on a scale of 0 to 10 you are closest to 0. This is not a penalty. Usually if you have a full white PR on the toolbar then chances are its because of this.

If the page is grey, then it's either been banned or not spidered yet.

I think penalties might appear for a white bar sometimes too, im not sure. Maybe the forum library mentions it :)

Since you say the sites are new, id reckon its because they have no PR yet.

Remedy > Get links pointing to it :)

[scorpion]

if you have 5 separate sites on the same IP, all unique content, etc.. but part of your network and you cross-link them together on a links page, will google blacklist you?

This is important, because our company has 5 different sites but we use .htaccess and subdirectories to separate each site, not sure if cross-linking these sites with 1 IP would be construed as a link farm...

[brotherhood of LAN]

if you have 5 separate sites on the same IP, all unique content, etc.. but part of your network and you cross-link them together on a links page, will google blacklist you?

I'd say it has more to do with the manner in which you link them and what the related content is about rather than them all being on the same IP/server.

If you leave things how they are, you'll find out.

[scorpion]

does google know "HOW you link things" I thought it was a computer not a person

[brotherhood of LAN]

HOW you link things

Pretty much, because it follows them. Google will also be able to map all these links together so can pretty much see the big picture, through your site or a collection of sites id imagine.

im not a google engineer so i could never say for sure if your five domains are running a risk.

in the case of "how you link", im sure the gbot would prefer it if the content was all related :)

[scorpion]

My network is set-up as follows: We have 5 unique sites and a review site. The review site reviews OUR five sites (naturally!) AND also many others. So the review site has a link to our 5 sites AND our 5 sites link back to the review site, would this be ok, everything is related?

[brotherhood of LAN]

Since they are content related i doubt youre going to be accused of selling pagerank to yourself then ;) If the links are related then they are legitimate, right?

I'd keep an eye on how many links you place toward each site though.

If you listed all your external URL's on each of the 5 sites and the other 4 are a majority of the links then you can see why a penalty wouldnt go amiss....

Just try keep the balance between linking to your own and linking to others.

"Naturally" there should be no bias! :)

[jayq]

brotherhood of LAN - Good point man! There is a lot of misinformation about the white toolbar. So many people don't know there is a big, BIG difference between the all white low page rank and the dreaded gray bar!

[scorpion]

when you say grey, you mean really grey? I notice that sites that are not cataloged (this site not pageranked by google yet) are the ones that look a bit grey...