My site shows PR0 to me but PR6 to others

What's going on and how can I fix it?

[ThatAdamGuy]

Okay, I'm almost embarrassed to post this because:
- the toolbar problems have seemingly been beat to death with little resultant enlightenment
- this is about my site, and I fear it'll be interpreted as a veiled attempt to get traffic. I swear on all my XHTML code (hey, I'm agnostic, okay?) that this is not the case.

Anyway, I'm the Webmaster for two sites. My secondary site -- and indeed most Websites -- show PR in my toolbar.

My primary site (which is 7 years old!), however, refuses to show any PR, instead reporting "this site has not been indexed" on every page.

A kind WW'er told me that my site shows a PR6 for her. So what's wrong on my end? It's not like my toolbar isn't working at all... it's seemingly working for every site EXCEPT for mine.

I've reinstalled. I've toggled the "fix via proxies" thing. I've tried two different browsers (IE 6 and myIE). No change.

I'd really like to be able to see the PR for different pages on my site! Anyone have any ideas what I can do?

Thanks much in advance for your help!

[takagi]

Sometimes I see something similar. Going to 'cached' (via the white 'i' on the blue circle) and then return, usually helps. Don't ask me why.

[mack]

If the site you are talking about is the site in your profile then I too am seeing a nice pr6 :)

Have you perhaps altered something in your host file and PR is being queried from a different data center? It's a long shot but possible I suppose. Also a bit of a bump for anyone else who has some beter ideas.

Mack.

[ThatAdamGuy]

Aaaaaargh! :¦

Okay, this is really confusing.

A friend just told me I have a PR5 for most of my site. Now you mention a PR6 (well, okay, that's not something to complain about :).

But I have nothing in my HOSTS file, and the cache-and-back trick doesn't work. Stranger yet, Google actually doesn't have a page to show for my site in its cache (even though I've had this site for years).

Sometimes I really do think Google is toying with me :D

Anyway, thanks for the posts, though. I appreciate the advice.

[Jane_Doe]

Sometimes opening a new window (Cntrl+N) helps. I've also noticed the page rank is usually accurate on an older PC I keep with a dial-up connection. There's some kind of bug with page rank and the tool bar if you are behind a firewall. They have a fix for it with the latest tool bar version, but it still doesn't work for me.

[keyplyr]

Google just started another PR/Backlinks update. Your site (and mine) has dropped to PR5. It will likely dance about for the next couple days.

[ThatAdamGuy]

Yes, and what's strange is that i can now (finally) see the PR of my homepage... but weirdly still not the PR of any internal section pages!

For a company like Google with so many tons of brilliant engineers, you'd think they'd come up with a less fussy/buggy system of PR reporting.

Unless... it's by design ;)

[See message 5 here [webmasterworld.com] for a startling discovery :D]

[storevalley]

A friend just told me I have a PR5 for most of my site. Now you mention a PR6

That makes sense. PR is a page thing, not a site thing. Each page has it's own PR.

[ThatAdamGuy]

I know what you mean, Storevalley, but in this case, someone said my front page had a PR6, and then someone else saw a PR5 (which is what I show now).

That said, it may have just been funky timing, with Google actually changing the PR (rather than toolbar funkiness).

[storevalley]

OK. Back to this comment then ...

Have you perhaps altered something in your host file and PR is being queried from a different data center

Doesn't Google load balance across its datacenters? (it would make sense ... but I don't know for sure) This might explain why you are seeing differences in PR. Two queries (even seconds apart) could be answered by different datacenters.

Alternatively, you could have a problem here ...

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