Has anyone experienced a situation whereby their pages show a grey bar but are are still in the index. All my pages and backlinks are still showing and I am still getting visited by Googlebot and still getting visits from the search results and my SERP keyword rankings have been unaffected. I have verified on various datacenters. In short, I am not banned and everything is fine apart from I see a grey bar
This is a worrysome situation. Has it only been going on since the beginning of the PR update? Perhaps it is just PR fluctuating as Google tries to sort all the PR out. Have you done anything spammy or black hat that might warrant a penalty/ban? I'm sure a lot of us have done minor things that they questioned the integrity of. Most of us have that one night stand that we regret.
No, I haven't done anything spammy. It went only this morning but since I posted the original message it has been coming and going again so maybe it's just the update still going on. I just hope the coin lands the right way up Looking at some other threads, looks like other people are experiencing the same problem. I have been monitoring the datacenters and they just keeping changing all the time. One moment all the datacenters show my site as having PR and then the next some say it has PR0. If I check back 30mins later it all changes again. It's not like any other update I have seen before.
In fact, my inner deeper pages are intermittently showing PR now and they have never had PR so I think i'm gonna be OK.