Page Rank dropped

went from 4 to grey

[NedFlanders]

I've noticed today that my PageRank has gone from PR4 to a grey bar, when I search google using inurl:mydomain it still lists over 9,000 pages and I'm still getting some good listings within SERPS, what does this mean? Has anybody else noticed this?

Is this a temporary thing, will my SERPS now disapear?

Any help/advice would be greatly appreciated.

[takagi]

Hard to say what is going on.

1. Is this about a new site (several weeks old)?
2. What do you see when you search for "info:www.domain.com" (without the quotes)?
3. Are you sure it is not a problem with the toolbar (go to the page, click on 'Cached Snapshot of Page' at the blue circle with the 'i' and return to previous page sometimes helps for me if the PR looks grey).

[Yidaki]

Possible answers:

- Yes, your SERP's will disappear.
- Don't check your pr but your traffic.
- Notice today and allready scaring?

~ 1,200 more possible answers why your Page Rank dropped [google.com].

[CCowboy]

I have seen this on and off for the last year... and it always comes back. The key is you are still in the SERP's!

[benc007]

takagi,

What are you supposed to see when you search for "info:www.domain.com" (without the quotes)?

[takagi]

There are 3 kinds of results possible for the "info:" command.

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<Title of the page>
<Snippet and if available also a description>

Google can show you the following information for this URL:

• Show Google's cache of www.domain.com
  
• Find web pages that are similar to www.domain.com
  
• Find web pages that link to www.domain.com
  
• Find web pages that contain the term "www.domain.com"

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Sorry, no information is available for the URL www.domain.com

• If the URL is valid, try visiting that web page by clicking on the following link: www.domain.com
  
• Find web pages that contain the term "www.domain.com"

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Sorry, no information is available for the URL www.domain.com

• Find web pages that contain the term "www.domain.com"

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The first one is the normal result. But for a new site it could come up, even if a search for "site:www.domain.com -asdf" is empty. The second one is for a site Google doesn't know anything about (new site or type error of domain name). And the third one could indicate the site is known to Google but penalized.

[seofreak]

>>>The second one is for a site Google doesn't know anything about (new site or type error of domain name).

either that was old or not true... coz i know a site which is banned / PR0 .. listed in dmoz and google directory for weeks, has over 90 backlinks and shows the 2nd type when searched for info:www.domain.com

[edit=it was banned because of CSS manipulation of H1 tag]

[Yidaki]

>it was banned because of CSS manipulation of H1 tag

Hm? Would you mind to provide some more details?

External css or embedded?
2pix or slight size reduction?
Hidden?
Color games?
Replication of h1 or single instance?