Many websites have some old pages that used to have a positive pagerank, but now the PR indicator bar is grayed out. Please note: --These are NOT new pages. --These are NOT banned or penalized pages. These are NOT de-indexed pages. Instead, these are old pages that are still in the index and still rank well in the SERPs. If you go to one of these pages and put your mouse pointer over the grayed-out PR indicator bar, you will see a note that says "Pagerank information not available" Some people assume that this means PR0. But that's not what it says. In fact, the page could have a positive PR, but Google doesn't want to show it publicly, so they hide it by graying out the indicator bar. That's my theory anyway.
The PR green bar has always been a snapshot of your site in th apst anyway and what you see is not uo to date. Also, we have not idea whether google measure pagerank out of 10 like we do or out of 100, 1000, 10,0000 etc. Just because they show it out of 10 to us, does not mean that is what it means. Page rank is less important than ever, many are now ranking because of relevancy not PR value. I douby google car about what is in your PR bar, if you rank ok without the green bar, then that is all that matters
No, it just means it has no Toolbar PR. But, every page is assigned an internal PageRank, anyway, which is never shared with the outside world. Consider the Toolbar PR as something Google put together to amuse people here at DP.
That's the only way to prevent the link sales. Now most of the sites has PR1-3 and nobody cares buying links
Thanks for the replies, but I think some of you mis-understood. What I said is that in some cases Google MIGHT be using the gray out as a way to HIDE the REAL Pagerank.
I'm pretty confident I read someone say a couple of days ago around here: "Isn't is a coincidence Public Relations and PageRank got the same abbreviation? I think not" Or words to that effect