It'd be great news if this is just a bug in a single Google DC/Node, but we're located in different parts of the world; and we're getting PR0 on all of our SEO extensions. The prcheck websites are also showing N/A.
If users can't find you, you won't be getting any more of them. Engineering is fantastic, but not much use without people knowing about your hard work.
It always freaks me out how much power Google really has over all sites, not just the spammers. The panda update, for example, killed TeachStreet, which recently ended up selling to Amazon as an aquihire.
I see a PR6 for your website, and a Google search for "private internet access" brings you up as the top result.
The PR score reported by browser plugins can often be incorrect, as Google usually only bothers to update their forward-facing PR scores every month or so. Of course, their internal PR is updated constantly.
I've also had my site return a N/A PR score a number of times, and it had no effect on my actual rankings. It's probably just an issue with your particular browser plugin, and it should begin reporting correctly within a day or two.
Being the second person to say this, we really hope you are both right. Before this, we couldn't find anyone, anywhere who could find it reporting anything other than N/A through sites and plugins. We also waited 24 hours before bringing this to light to see if the issue would fix itself.
Just to echo the other people on this thread who say that they see PageRank, I checked and it looks like you have plenty of PageRank internally as well. I didn't see any manual webspam actions that we'd taken on the site either. Have you actually checked in the Google Toolbar? That's the only official place to see our toolbar PageRank--lots of other sites and plugins can be broken in various ways.
In general, PageRank tends to drop for one of two reasons. The first is url canonicalization issues (e.g. messing up http vs. https, www vs. non-www, rel=canonical pointing to weird places like 404 pages). The second reason is selling links that pass PageRank, which violates our guidelines.
Thank you for taking the time to examine this issue for us, sir.
We took your advice and booted up an old Windows machine to try out the Google Toolbar, and sure enough, as you had advised, the PR was displayed as 6/10. We will assume this is the last word on the issue.
Hopefully this is just a temporary hiccup, but you should use this opportunity for scenario planning on what would happen if Google really did cut you off from search traffic. Even if the return on investment/effort of other traffic sources appears worse than Google, diversification has its own merits.
This is really good advice. We'll definitely use this opportunity as a warning to perform preemptive planning should this scenario arise again. Thanks for pointing this out.
Talking like a SEO Guy, Pagerank is not a metric for ranking on Google SERP's, in the past was. But pagerank is good to know the reputation of a site and advertisements.
The important is ranking for effective keywords and receive traffic from that. Search for videos of Matt Cutts explaining pagerank.
My advice for you, keep the good work in your site and wait for the next Pagerank's update.
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[ 3.4 ms ] story [ 66.1 ms ] threadI'm not entirely sure why you're being so hostile since you're clearly not familiar with the content being discussed.
The PR score reported by browser plugins can often be incorrect, as Google usually only bothers to update their forward-facing PR scores every month or so. Of course, their internal PR is updated constantly.
I've also had my site return a N/A PR score a number of times, and it had no effect on my actual rankings. It's probably just an issue with your particular browser plugin, and it should begin reporting correctly within a day or two.
In general, PageRank tends to drop for one of two reasons. The first is url canonicalization issues (e.g. messing up http vs. https, www vs. non-www, rel=canonical pointing to weird places like 404 pages). The second reason is selling links that pass PageRank, which violates our guidelines.
We took your advice and booted up an old Windows machine to try out the Google Toolbar, and sure enough, as you had advised, the PR was displayed as 6/10. We will assume this is the last word on the issue.
Thanks again, sir.
Cheers, and have a great Memorial Day Weekend!
Edit: In the Chrome Store
http://llsocial.com/2012/05/search-secrets-prominent-seo-com...
The important is ranking for effective keywords and receive traffic from that. Search for videos of Matt Cutts explaining pagerank.
My advice for you, keep the good work in your site and wait for the next Pagerank's update.
Glad to see their problem's been resolved.