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If I leave my site for another domain, then return again to my /index.shtml, grey PR again until I visit a non-index page on my site.
My /index.shtml comes up fine on G for a range of keyphrases, no problems at all, so I guess it could be an academic point, and no doubt things will change for the better or worse on the next update anyway. I'm just curious.. I thought for a while it was down to toolbar data coming from centres with different data, just after the update, but it seems to have persisted.
What could the strange behaviour of the toolbar PR be caused by? This has happened since the last update.
Is it still too soon after the update for things to have settled?
Is there any difference in the subdomain you use to get to your site from outside and the subdomain you use for links within your site? For example, if you use [example.com...] as your bookmark, but internal links on your site refer to [example.com,...] then those are two different URLs, even if they do return the same content. Also, this would be true if you refer to your home page as [example.com...] in your bookmark, but use [example.com...] as your internal link, even though both will work.
So, is there any difference whatsoever between links from outside your site and links on the inside?
Jim
Yes.. Looking at it, it's when I visit [example.com...] that I get a greyed out PR bar. Everytime I visit [example.com...] either via the link on /sitemap.shtml or directly from the address bar (in IE6), I get a solid PR 4.
Let me check from Google again..
Yes, Google's listed me as [example.com...] - and using that link, PR 4 straight away.
The site has been up since late summer 2002 with just a few pages. I added 100 pages during january, most of which were indexed by freshbot really quickly. A lot of these (root level) pages were created to a standard template by a perl script (a one-off run, not dynamic pages), and had a very similar structure (part of a search-by-area facility) - most were dropped from the listing fairly soon.
During mid to late January, I changed over to using .shtml files for most pages, leaving the old .html ones as 'noindex, follow' with just one link saying 'old page, please click here for the new page'.
I just rechecked the listings on Google using keyphrases for some of these files - strangely, the old .html files are showing up just fine in the listings, where their new .shtml equivalents are unlisted with a greyed-out PR.
This is the meta tag I've got in these old .html files:
<meta name="robots" content="noindex, follow">
As I say, these have been so since, I guess, 20th(?) Jan.
Stranger and stranger...
