What does PR0 really mean?

**smn2** · 10-04-06

Hi

I've just discovered that I have some pages on my site
that are PR0. What does it mean, exactly? Does it matter?
And if it does matter, what can I do?

Answers on a postcard please

Cheers,
Steve

**Brendon** · 10-04-06

It *could* indicate a penalty, but it more likely indicates that they are just not terribly popular with Google. So long as it's not your home page, I wouldn't fret overly

**markzz** · 10-04-06

Originally Posted by smnash

Hi

I've just discovered that I have some pages on my site
that are PR0. What does it mean, exactly? Does it matter?
And if it does matter, what can I do?

Answers on a postcard please

Cheers,
Steve

nothing at all to worry about. all it means is that those pages do not have many inbound links pointing to them. would be possible to improve this by gaining more inbound links and improving your internal link structure, however i would speculate it wouldn't be worth your time. it is quite normal.

**smn2** · 10-04-06

Cheers guys, I appreciate the replies.

I'll start worrying about something else, then

**lakrasia** · 10-04-06

Much the same has happened here - I think most of my PR4 and PR5 pages have dropped to PR0; I noticed it the other day, though the main page is still PR5.

Having said that, Google stopped sending traffic last August, so it makes no difference to me.

I think PR doesn't mean all that much. Non-existent sites were well above my site, even before this drop. (e.g. www.mydomain.biz rated quite well for my domain name - so I figure I need to create something with no content and no backlinks if I'm to get back into Google's favour)

**smn2** · 10-04-06

Hi,

Well I've just checked the offending pages on my site for
backward links (using Marketleap's link popularity tool),
and lo and behold, all have 0 inbound links on Google (2000 on
Yahoo! but 0 on Google).

So any clues as to why that would be?

Steve

**Brendon** · 10-04-06

The obvious answer is that Google considers those links to be of low quality. They stopped showing all links years ago, and introduced a minimum quality threshold. If Y are reporting that many links, it has to be a quality issue. Would explain the PR0 as well

**markzz** · 12-04-06

googles PR is dodgy at the moment, along with the serps troubles they've been having. i had a PR 0 site with only 2 incoming links go to PR9 the other day..

**globoChris** · 08-05-06

You might want to consider (temporariliy) buy in text links to help boost your PR.
Dont worry too much about it though, a site with a low RP can still rank above a site with a high PR.