Hi everyone, Between the January and April PageRank updates, I submitted a Google Sitemap, which increased my number of indexed pages from 500 or so to over 9,000. (I run an online database, using URL replacement to create SEO-friendly URL's.) However, in the new PageRank update, I was expecting that the PageRank shown on the toolbar for each of these pages would go from the grayed-out "no information" to at least a PR0. This hasn't happened, but the pages are defintiely indexed. Can anyone explain this to me what the criteria is for a page to be a PR0 as opposed to "no information?" Cheers.
To get a PR 0, you need to get some back links Like linking your site in your sig in the forum or promote it somewhere else. Just get a few sites or directory to link to your and you will get a PR 0 good luck!
Pagerank is purely a measure of backlinks. So even if you want to get a PR0 rather than NA, you have to get some backlinks..
You can get enough PR to have a Toolbar PR0 or even more simply by linking to the page from many other pages on your site (especially those that have a significant amount of PR themselves) because PR calculations include ALL inbound links - from internal pages as well as external sites. But as others have stated, having inbounds from sources external to your site is the best way to get a visible Toolbar PR. Anytime you have massive amounts of pages, especially if most are several clicks away from your home page and/or have very few links from other pages on your site and have no backlinks, you can expect a large percentage of them to be gray barred even if they are indexed.
Try getting some deep links directly to the internal pages from related external sites (preferably) and/or from some of the pages on your own site that have PR.
As usual, Canonical has given a very sound answer. You can get PR to all of those pages by improving your internal link structure and by building more backlinks to pages throughout your website. If your homepage PR is high enough, it becomes easier for some PR to trickle down to most of your pages. The toolbar PR of your pages isn't very important though. It is more important that those pages are ranking well in the search results. So go ahead and get more links to those pages, but make the goal serp's intsead of toolbar pr.
Okay, thanks. All of the pages on the site are linked internally from at least one page and I even have a PR2 subpage with no external links in. So it's probably just a case of Google not having tracked the backlinks for everything - this may be due to the size of the site. As you say, when the homepage PR increases, it should increase the speed that backlinks are tracked.
you must get back links from high rank sites or blogs that will give you weighted backlinks with google thanks MBeshr
Page Rank is purely depends on inbound links. To get rid of No information bar do following things 1. Get some valid back links to your home page 2.Follow a good internal link strategy
Just to clarify: 1. My homepage does have backlinks (both internal and external) and displays as a PR2. 2. I have a subpage with no external backlinks which is a PR2 (it is a high frequency search term on Google, but there are no known external links pointing at it.) 3. All internal pages are linked from at least one other page (some are linked from over 100 Google-indexed internal pages yet display as no information.) So, presumably there is some cut-off number of internal backlinks required to show a PR0+.