PageRank different when target=_blank

Google PageRank is different when target=_blank

[JimDonovan]

I have recently been trying to figure out why several sites that we have built including our own have PageRank=0 (white) according to the Google toolbar, when previously they did have PageRank.

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(Perhaps other people in the world do see a PageRank? I am in Canada and I see a white bar.)

(Perhaps these sites are in the sandbox, but I don't know enough about sandbox to determine this)

In any event, during my investigation, I discovered something strange... if I open the site using href with target=_blank, an actual PageRank DOES appear (4 in our case).
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[edited by: ciml at 7:18 am (utc) on July 1, 2005]
[edit reason] No specific URLs please. [/edit]

[Clint]

Do both methods of which you speak use the same URL prefix? (Both www or both non-www?). If so, then I don't have an answer. I checked this myself and my pages had the same PR whether the target="_blank" was used or not. If both methods DO NOT have the same prefix, that's typical in most cases. My www PR is 2 pts. higher than my non-www.

G PR hasn't been stable for quite some time now.

(Since this site still won't give notifications of replies, I won't know if you reply to this).