Link from Greybarred Page ???

[jasonvan]

I really hope somebody can answer this question for me.

I was recently given a link from a relevant PR5 website. The link is one click from the index page.

Although the index page is PR5, this page where my link is located is greybarred - not indexed by Google. Obviously Google does not consider this page "valuable". I just don't understand why this page does not show any pagerank in the toolbar. All his other pages linked from the index page have a PR4.

Is this link still valuable. It's not sending me any hits and I don't know if its sending me any PR.

There are no nofollow tags along with the link to this page. Should I be checking for a robots.txt file and/or sitemap to see if he is trying to prevent Google from passing pagerank to this page?

[bigcat1967]

Just do a site:domain.com/page - it should show if the page is indexed or not. Sounds like he is cheating on swapping links.

[franchiseshop]

Sounds like it is either a new page, or it has been no indexed.

[freelistfool]

Check and see if the page is indexed. If it is then it's probably passing link juice. I've got a page that has a lot of external links to it and it used to be a PR5, but for some reason it is now a Grey Bar (maybe because it's deep inside the site). I've linked from this page to another of my sites where they are related. The page on the other site ranks #1 in Google for the main term. The page has no other external links that I can determine so it appears that the Grey Bar page is passing link juice.