Toolbar Grey means?

[insyte1]

A Google toolbar for a site which has been up for over 6 months suddenly went grey April 25. I thought it might be a self-correcting glitch, but we're into May 1 and its still grey.

Webmasterworld posts seem to say that a completely white toolbar = penalization, where a grey bar = glitch or new site, but can occasionally also = penalization.

Should I be worried?

[dazz]

Is your site still in the google index?

Maybe your site was down when deepbot came by!?

[insyte1]

Hmmm . . . when I type the URL in the Google search box, the reply comes up "Sorry, no information available for the URL [.............com...]

I presume that means it isn't in the index at all.

I thought the index changed like clockwork at month end, so I figured it dropped out April 25 for reasons unknown, but May 1st = new index and its got to be back in because there are heaps of incoming links to this site from my other sites (PR5, PR4), so it has to have SOME PR.

I sent off oneof those "reinclusion request" emails to Google, as suggested on tis forum. How long does it take for Google to respond?

[tigger]

I sent an email last week and got a reply within 2 days saying they would look at the site, I presume if they’re happy it will start to show on the next update

[kevinpate]

tigger, absent anything dodgy on the site, you'll probably be back in the index. The index page on the info site I take care went grey in April and disappeared too.

What I'm noticing over the last week or so on our info site is that:

on www and www (-ex, -va- -in), entering www.mydomain.org
gives this message:

"Sorry, no information is available for the URL
www.[mydomain].org

If the URL is valid, try visiting that web page by clicking on the following link: www.[mydomain].org
Find web pages that contain the term "www.[mydomain].org"

However, the index page is alive and well in www, and has been for many days now, notwithstanding the grey bar, thanks to a fairly friendly freshbot schedule.

My hopes are also sitting higher now because looking at www-sj and -fi, entering www.[mydomain].org gives the following info:

"[Page Title of index.htm]
[Text snippet from early in the on-page text]
Description: [text accurating describing nature of site]Category: [google category path]

Google can show you the following information for this URL:

Show Google's cache of www.[mydomain].org
Find web pages that are similar to www.[mydomain].org
Find web pages that link to www.[mydomain].org
Find web pages that contain the term "www.[mydomain].org" "

Of course, the prior PR is still no where to be found, so far as I can tell, it doesn't show in my tool bar anyway, nor on the google directory page, but other pages still have PR. So hopefully that's going to resolve and roll back in eventually as well.

Good luck to you with wherever ya land when the current googlecane finishes blowing through.