For the last few months it seems that there are a lot of confusions over the meaning of white PageRank bar (PR 0) on Google toolbar.

The white bar has several and different meanings, not only one:

  • PageRank value is not yet calculated because it is a new page.
  • PageRank value is calculated BUT it is not display on the Google toolbar. Read our article: :
  • If your page used to have PageRank but not anymore it means either:
  • your page is banned by Google (hand penalty is made by Google employee)
  • your site was down when Googlebot last crawled your site
  • your page is considerated as duplicated content by Google

Sometimes you may find a grey bar. This happens only for the pages still not indexed in Google.

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