Hi Wonder whether you can help me. I am doing some seo for a company, their website is www.9xb.com and they have a pagerank of 7. Most of the internal pages are a pagerank of 5-6. However, one of the main links "Think Tank" near top right which goes to a news section has no page rank at all. Have no idea why when it has a PR7 and numerous PR6 pointing at it. Any ideas? Thanks Mark
the "think tank" page has same age with another internal page? maybe you must wait it until the next pagerank update
Hmmm, not any nofollow tags there ??? (LoL, sorry, had to ask!) - How old is the page, and for how long has the link from the main page been in place? Maybe check the google user agent is not blocked from the page via robots.txt too... I have seen clients do funny things sometimes!!!
The page does rank well for 'flash websites and google'. So the page is indexed and not being hindered in the rankings. Google also returns backlinks for that page with the link: command. So this PR problem may not be important and you might be able to just ignore it. If you are concerned, maybe try building some external backlinks to that page. Perhaps it is just some strange filter that targets pages that have x number of dashes in the page name and the word 'google'.
Hi Mark, first of all congratulations for working on such a nice site. I assume (though assumptions are just....): - The age of page, may be it's new or indexed late. but it is already in Google's caches. (This confused me) - The PR bar shows a white line, not gray, means it's safe. I had a similar problem with one of the PR 7 site I own. It was showing similar things and some article pages were gray and lost all ranking with search term for 3 months! I did nothing and January, my home page restored with PR 6 (-1), site was ranking again with keywords and all pages have well distributed PR's. May be it's a temporary problem and soon it will be fixed.. hope so.
Mark, How long have you been working with them and how long has that think tank page been up? Is this something you just noticed, or was it like this before the last PR update?
The problem is not really "UNUSUAL". This phenomenon is quite old - and sites - big or small have been facing this problem for over a year now. (ATM Could not find a detailed discussion on it held on Webmasterword). But there is nothing to worry about. You might find that- it has become PR5/6/7 after net update whereas the PR pages now might turn into N/A. There is apparently no reason for this behavior except that Google is still developing its PR algo. For the strange PR behavior - u might refer to one of my threads here. http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showpost.php?p=10566259&postcount=1