Google Page Rank for new sites

Did Google change the way it works?

[paladin]

Hi All,
I have a couple of web sites that I have been working on. Up until now one of them had a PR of 3 and the other had none (not ranked by google). I know that I have alot of work on them but my question is:
Why have they recently gone from a PR of 3 and no PR to both of them to a PR of 0?

Did Google change something in the PR system? From what I remember PR of 0 usually was for banned or penalized sites.

Thanks

[steveb]

I've recently seen several new pages get a PR0 after they have been visited by freshbot.

[cyberax]

We have noticed recently that a lot of our sites start life as a PR0. When it first happened I was quite worried, but at the next update the site in question jumped from PR0 to PR6, so don't worry too much!

[SlyGuy]

Released 2 new sites about 3 months ago. Both were born with the PR0 infliction. The following month, PR5 and PR4 respectively. C'est la vie!

- Chad

[annej]

I put up a new subdirectory a few weeks ago. It had the guessed PR from the root directory then went to PR0 which sort of alarmed me. I wonder if it just wasn't found in time to be included in the last update. Hopefully next update it will have a better PR.

Anne

[kaz]

This thread from right after the last update discusses it also.

[webmasterworld.com...]

[paladin]

Thanks All,
It is starting to make sence now as Google Bot crawled me at the begining of the month.

Funny thing is I didn't even ask him/her/it to crawl my site as it is not ready to be submitted to the search engines. The only places that link to it are a few of my client's sites (you know.."this site built/hosted/designed/whatever by www...me"), which in turn all have a PR of 0 now.

Thanks Again,
your comments and replies are letting me sleep easier now