Does a non-indexed page still pass page rank?

[Burningbarricade]

Hi there,

I've got a couple of links recently on decent blog comments pages with high PR so I'm looking forward to hopefully slurping up some of their healthy juices. Yum.

But I've performed a site: search on the domain name of the blog and only about 60 pages are apparently indexed by Google! None of which include the page I commented on, even tho it had it's own PR4.

Can anyone with a bit of credibility explain to me whether this is something I should be alarmed about?

Cheers!

[joebloggs]

Well, obviously if a page ins't indexed it can't pass link juice.

Whether or not site: searches are 100% accurate I'm not sure.

[Burningbarricade]

Yeah, but how did a page that isn't indexed manage to have a PR of 4 in the first place?

How can google rank it yet not index it?

[joebloggs]

The page must be indexed for it to have a PR 4.

[Burningbarricade]

So you're saying that the site: search isn't throwing up all the pages that are actually indexed in Google?

Do you know of any tool which allows you to search the contents of an entire domain on it's own?

[Camay123]

The page was probably index, gain PR, and now it is de-indexed due to Google ban/penalty, and PR as not updated yet.

Probably if page remains unindex it will loose it's PR at next update.

[kg_lew]

non indexed pages can't have PR...

[Dr.SEOman]

If the page have high PR backlinks, I can have a good PR.

[Burningbarricade]

non indexed pages can't have PR...

But it is an unindexed page with page rank. It has PR4 but doesn't turn up in a site: search.

[kg_lew]

I guess it was previously indexed and recently got de-indexed... even new recent pages of up to three months on all sites don't have PR and they've probably been indexed within a day or two of their creation...

[Loco.M]

blog comments are usually nofollow anyways, so this discussion is null ;)

[MoneyMoose]

Non-indexed pages won't pass pagerank because Google doesn't know about them.

Non-indexed pages shouldn't have pagerank either.

[Dannyboyonline]

No because google doesn't know they exist.

If I get a million backlinks today and Google does a PR update tomorrow I will not notice any change in PR because the links have not been found.

[hwould]

A deindexed or banned site will still show its pr in the tool bar until the next update. So you can have a site that shows PR 4 but be banned. Just look at some of the blogs for sale in the BST section.

[zexy]

No, and I wouldn't waste my time to place links on non-indexed sites.
It might be useful for Yahoo and Live though, if the site is indexed there...

[for_si2003]

It looks like the non indexed pages pass PR but they have lower values.