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Grey PR, Is this a Penalty?

Posted: Mon May 28, 2007 8:58 pm
by shailendra.gatesix
Hi, all
As all of you know that PR Update is almost completed & this update cause many websites Up's & down's.

The one thing i noticed in this update is Grey PR, what is this, is this is a penalty. If it is a penalty, then can anyone tell me, on what basis this penalty is given to websites.

The websites which are regularly cached, are having Grey PR, then what is this.

Can anyone told me.

Regards
Shailendra Dubey
IM Specialist
GateSix Inc,
http://www.gatesix.com

Posted: Tue May 29, 2007 5:24 pm
by easycash81
When u get a gray ber that only means that u r banned fror participating in illegal activities like using black hat

Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 2:42 am
by VladTepes
not really, in case of new sites, have grey bar by default (just lacking on pr ranking criteria)

Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 3:21 am
by easycash81
Oh yes i was not commenting about the new sites .New sites have a gray bar.....

Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 5:07 am
by viradian
Google seems to have changed the way it displays PR results inthe Google Toolbar. It used to be that if you saw a greyed out PR bar, it meant that a page was banned by Google. Now it seems that the Greyed PR bar just means Google has no page rank information available.

The question now is, how do you know if a page is banned?

Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 5:14 am
by easycash81
When a site is banned we dont get any reference ( DIRECTLY) from google and google stops showing that site in its search or puts it in supplemental results

Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 12:28 pm
by ikshayar
Grey PR.. there is nothing like grey PR.. its just that google do not know about that page.
And yes.. if page is blocked then it will not show up in seach result..

Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 12:33 pm
by www.tradeco.co.uk
A bit like the grey PR for this topic. No - PR info

Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2007 1:57 am
by VladTepes
viradian wrote:Google seems to have changed the way it displays PR results inthe Google Toolbar. It used to be that if you saw a greyed out PR bar, it meant that a page was banned by Google. Now it seems that the Greyed PR bar just means Google has no page rank information available.

The question now is, how do you know if a page is banned?

other use site:wwwyoursite.com command to check if SE's indexed any of your page...

Re: Grey PR, Is this a Penalty?

Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2007 12:54 pm
by redblush
shailendra.gatesix wrote: The one thing i noticed in this update is Grey PR, what is this, is this is a penalty.

One possible why your PR or your PR bar is gray, is that Google just has not indexed your page yet. It can be easily checked by typing in the URL of the webpage in Google. Or what had suggested.

Another common reason for a page to have a grayed out PR bar is when Google has decided to ban the webpage.It may be due to a page performing some Black Hat technique.

And the third reason for a page to get a gray PageRank bar is for being a supplemental result.