Page Rank Refuses To Work

[geck0]

Ok I have tried everything i can think of and all the suggestions I found by doing a search in this forum.

My Pagerank REFUSES to work - ive reinstalled ie - removed my firewall - downloaded all the updates - uninstalled - rebooted - deleted cookies - everything I can think of - this is driving me nuts - i have just formatted this pc so this shouldnt be happening.

I connect to the net via adsl here in Australia..is it possible i have to change something in my settings to get this baby to work.

PLEASE can someone give us a hand to get this going - i do alot of se work and I'd really like to get it enabled.

Surely it cant be that hard...

[perfecttommy]

Try the Toolbar 2.0 beta and turn on that "Enable PageRank through proxy servers". Maybe that will help?

[geck0]

thanks - i tried that - no luck :((

this is seriously driving me nuts heh

[Chris_R]

I take it it isn't working at all? If so - I can't help you - for others that have intermittent problems - I can suggest the following...

Try:

1) Going to the site
2) Using the toolbar to do Backward Links
3) Hit the back button on your browser.

[geck0]

the toolbar works - just not the page rank aspect

someone must have an idea - how can it not work for just me?

[perfecttommy]

When I used a packet sniffer to look at what Toolbar is doing, it seemed to be going to toolbarqueries.google.com.

Try this, open a command prompt and try these:

nslookup toolbarqueries.google.com

ping toolbarqueries.google.com

[Chris_R]

Well I can help narrow it down:

If you still get the Category of the DMOZ a site is in - the toolbar is communicating with google.

If not try what perfect tommy suggests - or:

tracert toolbarqueries.google.com

[geck0]

Ok thanks guys for taking the time to reply
i will try those things and report on what i find

[geck0]

ok nothing appears for the category when i visit dmoz sites

i can run a traceart and i can also ping and i dont seem to be able to do the nslookup however

[Chris_R]

So we know it isn't a PageRank problem, but a communicating with google problem.

Unfortunately, I don't know what to do next - I would say contact your ISP, but I have a feeling that won't work out well....

Actually - if you have another means of getting on the web - try that - and see if it works - if not...

[geck0]

Hey Chris - thanks for trying to work this one out with me

I got my brother to try at home on his pc - he uses the same isp - and he didnt have a problem.

so yes a communication with google problem - but all the other toolbar features work?! :/

anyone? eek

[Chris_R]

The other toolbar features don't communicate with google the way the category and PageRank do. Just so you know. Unfortunately I don't have any better suggestions...

[geck0]

ahhh ok thanks Chris - you are a good man :))

[trillianjedi]

I have exactly the same problem on my home PC (spent a couple of months trying to get it to work then gave up).

Strange thing, it would work for about the first 60 seconds after booting up the PC then stop.

I concluded that there was a windows system service that was firing up that interfered with it.....

Worth looking in your services list and shutting down all unecessary services.

Also, try the PC in "safe mode with networking".

TJ

[geck0]

TrillianJedi - where to i find this services list you refer to?

thansk for replying :)

[vbjaeger]

I am also using ADSL and was having the same issue but this fixed it. Make sure your computer is set to automatically detect proxy settings.

I am sure you know how, but I'll post instructions for those that don't.

In Windows XP:

Go to your Control Panel, then to Internet options.
Once in Internet options, press the Connections Tab.
At the bottom, press the LAN Settings button.
Check the Automatically Detect Settings box.

That fixed it for me. Good luck.

[only_me]

I have a similar problem.

We are on windows 2000, when logged on as administrator it works, but not for a normal user. However, it seems to work intermittently work with the users as well.

Any more clues?

[geck0]

well i tried that as well - and no go :(

SOMEONE must be able to get this thing working!

[marcs]

Do you have a static or a dynamic IP?

If it is static, maybe Google has banned from accessing that content it for some reason.

[geck0]

nope its a dynamic ip

[willybfriendly]

Well, I downloaded the "new" toolbar a few days ago. It shows no PR if I go to a page from a Google SERP listing. However, if I go to the site by diredcly entering the URL it "usually" gives a pagerank.

I was very worried because it looked like my mainh site had suffered a major penalty and had dropped to a greyed out PR bar.

WBF