Hello, Many people talk about an incomplete PR update and I think i couldn't manage to avoid bad effects on my site: Free Software Downloads Archive. All my main categories pages (Audio & Multimedia, ...) are grey in Google Toolbar. Is someone here who knows a reason for that? I started to build links to those pages, but it is a very slow process ...
This could very well be it... or google has found that page lacking enough content or simply the spiders havent indexed it and it will go up for review again in this next update.. Since it was just recently done... I would suggest that you make your site in compliance with w3c as well as build quality content (For Users) and backlinks for them (votes) in web directories as well as relevant sites pertaining that pages content. thx malcolm
That's not necessarily true. Pages in the supplemental index can have toolbar PR. Sites that get banned or brand-new pages get "grey-barred."
The homepage have PR3 indeed, and also the pages dedicated to each OS. But category pages shows grey.
A Grey Bar would be when the PageRank Bar (located on Google Toolbar) shows a grey color rather then White or green to indicate a pagerank value. Grey Bar PR0. No links yet indexed and PageRank not yet calculated. Or it means an automated penalty of some kind, usually a page that is flagged by one of the many filters Google has in place. This type of penalty is usually temporary. Or maybe is just your domain. Don't worry it's just temporary....
I was experiencing this phenomena on all of my article directory pages except the main index.php page. Google told me that I had "bad links" which I found difficult to swallow because I had checked them all. The Google guys noted that I had quite a few ads and "outbound links". I cut them in half a little over a week ago and all of the article directory articles are now out of Google's supplemental index. So, here is what I would do to fix the "grey bar" syndrome: 1. Don't go overboard with outbound links. It takes the wind out of a pages pr. Negative calculations may be what are creating the "grey bar". 2. Build internal and external links to offset excessive outbound links. Matt Cutts said that staying out of the supplemental index was all about PR and quality inbound links. Len
A gray bar means the page has not yet been ranked by Google - not necessarily anything else. All https pages will have a gray bar, as well as pages blocked by robots.txt I have many pages on my websites that are gray, and have been around for over two years. It is not just for new pages, either.