A Google PR Mystery...

Top-ranked page with no PR?

[FourDegreez]

I have a page that is ranked #1 for several phrases. However, my PR for this page is grayed out and the mouse-over says "Current page is not ranked by Google." How can this be possible? Hundreds of sites link to this page and it's been listed in Google for well over a year.. probably two years. How can it be at the top of the results with no PR?

[Birdman]

It could be a problem with your toolbar. It used to happen to me also. You could try restarting IE to see if your pr is back.

When you see an all white bar, that's when you worry ;)

[FourDegreez]

It's always been this way though. I've never seen it with a PR! Could someone possibly do me a favor, search for "<snip>" and let me know if you get an actual PR for the top result? This is really bothering me...

[edited by: ciml at 7:23 pm (utc) on Feb. 27, 2003]
[edit reason] No specifics please. [/edit]

[Craig_F]

I see PR6

[Total Paranoia]

I see a grey bar

[steve128]

I see PR6

[curlykarl]

Pr6 here :)

[Total Paranoia]

Cool test though .. hmmm

[roundabout]

Your home page is PR 6, but the top page in the SERP is a different page with a grey bar. Might have something to do with the .mv file extension. You also have a google directory listing pointing at the .mv page ... that can't hurt.

[logen]

german toolbar shows PR 6!

[ciml]

Sorry FourDegreez, we can't do specific site reviews.

I think the moral of the story here is that the Toolbar can't always connect to Google to get the PageRank. If this doesn't happen to you all the time, then your ISP connection must be better a lot than mine.

[Total Paranoia]

Your test says that I am schizoid and Paranoid! Tut as if! Google is gonna PR0 me one of these days I can just sense it!

[HuhuFruFru]

i had a site in november with a pr0 (because it was new) and it ranked for a lot of keywords in the top3. after 2 updates it got a pr6 and the ranking got worse.

someone once suggested that new domains which were never indexed before get a ranking boost for a while and that it would settle after one or two google updates

[FourDegreez]

I thought it might be something with the extension... wanted to get to the bottom of it. Sorry ciml, but I needed a sanity check because my toolbar *never* showed a PR for this page. I thought maybe if no one saw a PR, it would mean Google wasn't ranking *.mv pages, or something. How else to pursue the issue than to give an example? Well, I guess I have my answer since some people did see a PR.

[FourDegreez]

Wait a minute. Is PR domain-wide? In other words, if one page has PR6, then all pages under that domain have PR6? I'm confused.

[aspdesigner]

No, each page has it's own PR.