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My website dropped one level in page rank about a month ago. My products are listed on static pages. Each page in a product line is a duplicate except for header page title and description, Body title, graphic of the product and drop down windows with different variables to select when ordering. Currently I have my 4 product lines on a total of 50 pages (22, 20, 4, and 4.) I plan to design a database as soon I learn how to do this.
My website also consists of main pages for company, links, etc. Each product has a main page with links to category pages that show thumb nails of each product.
My question is whether my site could be banned from Google for this.
Thanks!
Sounds to me like your pages are all different.
If you were banned, you would have no PR, not just a drop in PR. All your pages would go missing from the index.
Many pages dropped a PR point recently - as I recall, there was much speculation, but no hard answers. It may just be that the web is growing, and there is only so much PR to go around*. You might try to find some of this discussion using the WebmasterWorld site search (link above).
Again, if you've just lost a bit of PR, I wouldn't worry about it. If you don't use spammy tricks, you've got little to fear.
Best,
Jim
* Toolbar PageRank is an "interpretation" of real PageRank. According to the original paper on PageRank, the sum of all PageRank on the Web is equal to one.
