PR Toolbar Gone Grey: Keep or Ditch the Domain?

[stevelibby]

google is driving me nuts, after much hard work over the past few months, my site inner pages have gone to grey and back links have dropped by half.
i have not a clue as to why, i dont have any other problems with other domains, yet this site consistantly has issues, it almost like someone is constantly attacking it, as i fix one problem onother arises.
Would you keep or ditch the domain?

[fishfinger]

Don't let grey toolbar be the deciding factor. It could be wrong.

If you're gonna walk away do it because the site isn't performing - no rankings, no visits. Nothing you can build on.

If you've been working/tweaking away, remember issues can take months to ride out or settle down. I found this out to my cost, there are many threads here about the dangers of playing around too much.

But.. things are coming back now after 3/4 months. So perhaps just leave it alone until the Summer and review it then?

Very important to plan and get it right first time.

[stevelibby]

its been on and off for over 3 yaers. I have exhausted all issues, i dont know what else to do.

[sem4u]

What is the traffic looking like? If the traffic is the same I wouln't worry too much really.

[pageoneresults]

PR Toolbar Gone Grey: Keep or Ditch the Domain?

I'd ditch the Toolbar. :)

[stevelibby]

id like to ditch google! but we cant. The problem that we have is that for each page that is greyed out if you place the url in g`s search you will notive that it does not rank and last at best.

[pageoneresults]

Its almost like someone is constantly attacking it, as i fix one problem onother arises.

When you say fix one problem, another arises, what exactly are you referring to? What type of problems and/or challenges?

[elguiri]

There is a certain type of website that attracts more grey barred internal pages than others.

There are probably more, but I'd say most fall into one of four categories:

1) MFA sites
2) Directory Sites
3) "Thin affiliate" sites
4) Sites with duplicate or near-duplicate content (compared with something external or internal)

Perhaps your site is none of these, but look to see if there is anything that make Google think it is.

Duplicate page titles? Duplicate page descriptions? Common affiliate programs? Weak backlink profile? Irrelevant back link profile? No deep links? What does Google Webmaster Tools tell you about the site?

If you believe the site is fully legitimate, well built and with good, valuable content, then forget the toolbar. Google seems to have quite a few bugs that one hopes will be resolved over time - I have some good quality sites, high PR, with good pages one click from home, clean code and unique content with grey bar and no cache. (Grrr). We live in hope.

[dudibob]

Something I have just noticed, is anyone using a 3rd party tool to check their PR? I think Google has blocked them, all. I'm getting N/A on apple.com FFS

Google TB, the PR is working fine