Broken toolbar PR... or penalized?

[Ferre]

Yesterday I noticed some weird sh1t going on with my own site's PR in the toolbar.

My domain suddenly shows a grey bar, and no backlinks for the link: command but most of my inner pages still have PR and backlinks showing.

Anyone who can see what's going on here:

It's www.thc-ministry.net <-- shows grey bar and no backlinks
http://www.thc-ministry.net/home.htm <-- while the homepage still shows PR4 and a few backlinks


I don't use any blackhat techniques, as a matter of fact I don't use any techniques at all, I don't even build links to that domain, as it gets links in a natural way since I started it, I have it in my signature on here and that's about it. It used to have a PR5, this dropped to PR4 a long time ago but stabilized at PR4 since years.

Is there someting I need to worry about or is it just Google's update having bugs?

Anyone?

[Rankenstein]

Hi Ferre,

I reckon just a bug - the page is still indexed by Google, still ranks no. 3 for:
cannabis amsterdam
on google.com

I'd say sit tight, you look fine to me.

[briggidere]

I think it's just a glitch. Give it a little while and you may be ok.

I thought you didn't care about PR ;-)

[Ferre]

Originally Posted by briggidere

I think it's just a glitch. Give it a little while and you may be ok.

I thought you didn't care about PR ;-)

I don't, but I do care when there's a grey bar suddenly and a blank link: command page.

..and I also care about Google's manually manipulated serps in the niche I operate in. Google has manually added results in their serps for the term 'cannabis' in favor of government funded anti cannabis sites. Some of the sites on their first two pages shouldn't be there at all according to their own algorithms, specially when you compare those with the competition in their direct neighborhood.

Google became a political tool since it has NSA agents in prominent positions within their company. Commercial site owners don't notice that but in the NGO world it's a very well known fact.

Needless to say I become a tad suspicious when I see unusual things happen to their ratings of my site.

[Alfredito]

You can always check your pr here : prfind.info

[www.errorforum.com]

Originally Posted by Ferre

Yesterday I noticed some weird sh1t going on with my own site's PR in the toolbar.

My domain suddenly shows a grey bar, and no backlinks for the link: command but most of my inner pages still have PR and backlinks showing.

Anyone who can see what's going on here:

It's www.thc-ministry.net <-- shows grey bar and no backlinks
http://www.thc-ministry.net/home.htm <-- while the homepage still shows PR4 and a few backlinks


I don't use any blackhat techniques, as a matter of fact I don't use any techniques at all, I don't even build links to that domain, as it gets links in a natural way since I started it, I have it in my signature on here and that's about it. It used to have a PR5, this dropped to PR4 a long time ago but stabilized at PR4 since years.

Is there someting I need to worry about or is it just Google's update having bugs?

Anyone?

hey no need 2 panic..ths bcos google is upgrading pr and backlinks..That would be the reason for the flactuation

[WagerX]

Same thing happened to my site during the update. If you remember the already high pagerank sites were updated at a different time than the
"new" pages. My main page was grey, and the inner pages still green. It took a week, then all was back to where it should have been.

Hopefully this is the case with you to Ferre.

Ferre, what does "NGO world" mean?

[John Scott]

Do you got your site registered with Google's Webmaster Central?

http://www.google.com/webmasters/

Might give you more info.