PR 0 on links pages

PR dropped to 0 on links pages

[SeventiesMartin]

I have several sites, well established, been up for a couple of years PR 5 and 6.

I have a links directory with categories that link internally to sub categories. The sub categories generally had PR 2 to pr 4.

A week ago, the sub category pages, these are the ones with the actual outbound links dropped to PR 0. The PR throughtout the rest of the site is fine, it hasn't changed at all. Even the category page of my links directory has PR. It's just the pages with the outbound links on that are effected.

I do not interlink my sites.

This weekend, another couple of sites have had exactly the same thing happen.

A few days before the first site was hit, I did a massive clearout. I checked all my outbound links to make sure I wasn't linking to any bad neighbourhoods (some of the pages I linked to did look as though they had gone bad, including some that had created a network).

But, when I check these pages with Web Master Brain, which shows googles results but with the Page Rank of the page alongside the results, these pages show as having page rank.

I'm confused as to what is happening, and concerned the effects will ripple out to the rest of the sites.

It also makes requesting links difficult when the pages are showing PR 0 (though I have begun to wonder if it's just from the datacenter I'm using, given that Web Master Brain shows PR and other sites have exchanged links).

Is anyone else experiencing this or has met this before.

[SeventiesMartin]

Something else I have noticed.

If I click through to a links page from within the site, PR is 0.

If I list my link directory pages in google with allinurl:mydomain/resources and then click through to the same link page, it shows PR as it was.

Now I am confused.

[nativenewyorker]

Is it possible that your site was down during the last PR update? If the only inbound links to the sub-categories are from the directory, then this may explain why the sub-categories are PR0.

[SeventiesMartin]

I don't think that can be the reason.

All other pages are ok, it's just the sub directories, if the sites were down then I should think all pages would be effected.

Also, this has effected sites on different servers, virtual account and dedicted server, although they are all with the same hosting company.

Surfing around the links pages of other sites, I notice that some other sites have PR 0 for the pages with the links on while the rest of the site is ok.

I'm trying to figure the common denominator, if there is one.

I'm hoping it's just a glitch or something at the datacenter google directs me to.

The fact that Web Master Brain or clicking through to a links page from google shows pr, but clicking through from the site doesn't is what has me really puzzled.

[glitterball]

I have noticed a similar phenonemon with the toolbar and dynamic (querystring) pages.
When I click on the link to the dynamic page from the Google results, I can see PR. However, when I click on a an internal link, I see PR0.

[SeventiesMartin]

My dynamic sites are often more complicated than they need to be, simply because I try and not pass parameters between pages if possible, just so as to get that sliver of green on the google bar.

These links pages are all static html though. I do it the hard way just so everyone can see I play fair and pass on the PR and let spiders through unhindered, just for those that think spiders can't follow dynamic pages and won't swap with asp pages.