Pages now show greybar PR Zero

Has anybody a clue what's causing this?

[cangoou]

Hello. I just regognized that pages with a lot of links on it or pages, which seems to be almost identically to other pages show a grey bar in the PageRank. Sorry, if I'm missing a thread that discusses that already please let me know, but I was out ouf business for some time.

The strange thing is that pages with pure, unique content are affected as well - it's the excpetion, but it happens. So my question is: What could be triggering this switch?

[WW_Watcher]

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During the last G Toolbar PR update, many pages were assigned a Grey Bar, even though before the update they showed to be indexed (white bar) & some had PR assigned (green bar). I have not yet seen any of my pages, or pages that are on other sites display anything but grey yet that were effected. Has anyone? There has been no difference in ranking for the pages, nor loss of traffic, I just wonder what happened, and if anyone else has thoughts on the issue. (Other than G TBPR means nothing)

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[MarkWolk]

It seems to be a PR bug. Several of my sites got one page with greyed PR bar. There is nothing special about these pages, and they are all different (with or without external links, various lengths, with forms or no forms), and none of them has any spam tactics to my knowledge.

[martinibuster]

Just a bug. Doesn't mean anything. Was discussed in detail last month in this thread.

[webmasterworld.com...]

Doesn't anyone remember the white bar issue? We went through this only a few weeks ago.
When your pages still rank, when the page is still cached, when you do a snippet search and the page shows up... it means it's not penalized. This is not a reflection of anything happening with the algo. Just like with the white bar incident a few weeks ago, this is strictly a toolbar glitch.

>>>I think some of the factors that I've mentioned have something to do with it...

I'm very certain that none of those factors have anything to do with it simply because it's not an algo thing, it's a toolbar glitch.

Adding content, changing your links or file names etc. won't help because those actions relate to the algo and it's established that this is not an algo issue. There is nothing to fix on your end. It's on Google's end. Nothing to do but wait for the next update or for Google to fix the glitch.

[cangoou]

Thanks for your replys and the hint to the other thread. Well, I would be glad if it's only a bug, but for me it seems that there is more.

For my sites the situation is: Altought some (few) "normal" Text-Pages are effected as well, most of the pages that got a grey bar are pages with just outgoing links (not more than 10, but with not much text I must admit) and with almost same title & description.

I have 2 web-directories with PR5 and PR6 with a good and rich backlink-structur. It is conspicuous that both directories got only PR on the main-page and a grey bar for all subpages.

Couldn't it be that google has a new "find-link-pages-and-directories"-algorithm that punishes link-pages?

[tedster]

How is the traffic? That's the real tell here, not what the toolbar says.

[cangoou]

The traffic hasn't changed. But I cannot tell yet if the link on the pages with the grey bar still inherit their link-power (which I'm afraid off that they do not).

[tedster]

If those pages lost link power for real, then their target pages would have lost ranking and therefore lost traffic.

It's just a reporting bug. Rest easy about this, it's not worthy of any concern.