Hi cosmin, I’ve noticed the same thing on all the pagerank tools I’ve looked at. It does seem strange that the pagerank would show up for some, but not all visitors. Yeah, I have to agree about the toolbar pagerank not meaning much. Google’s internal pagerank for a site makes a big difference in search engine traffic, though. That probably explains why I’m seeing so much traffic from Google lately. Thanks for visiting and joining the discussion.

Hey Allen, Thanks! I should do some more in-depth research on all this stuff and write an article about it. I’m thinking a dummies version would be nice because so much of what I see discussing pagerank is highly technical.

Thanks everyone for your comments!

Allen.H

my toolbar pr (firefox) shows 0 for your blog as well. however i decided to use another tool to check your pr (you can find it here http://www.seochat.com/seo-tools/future-pagerank/).

if i type in your URL with “www” all data centers return a pr3. if i type it without the “www” the pr from all centers is 5. i know there’s supposed to be a difference in whether you use “www” or not. however i still don’t get it why the toolbar doesn’t show it - it’s been quite accurate for my blog.

if anything, it all comes to supporting all those who talk against putting too much faith in the toolbar.

cheers,
cosmin

good luck

Leroy,you’re right about all those little things. It’s a constant process of tweaking the little things after the big ones have been covered.

You don’t have to put anything in it!

Even a blank one is better than no robots.txt, at least for me. That says, all clear, index me.

On a newer site I check my “Failure Report” often in my log files to make sure I didn’t break anything.

Bots always check for a robots.txt (and many times a favicon), If you have nothing there the first thing your site always serves to a bot is a 404, in my opinion not a good thing, first impressions and all, lol

So I at least put a blank robots.txt and blank favicon.ico with every new site to eliminate unnecessary 404’s. Just preference.

Mark, I’ve been concerned about my lack of a robots.txt file for a while, but I’ve never been sure what exactly to put in it. I’m going to do a bit more research to see what I should do with it, but what you’ve told me is a great start. Oh, and I’m going to check out your $50/day videos as soon as I can, too. Great idea. And thanks for the congrats.

Adnan, FreshBlogger and Blogtrepreneur are both still showing PR zero for me using the search status plugin for firefox and they were also showing zero from work yesterday using Google toolbar for IE6. I wonder if it has to do with my location being served by a Google server that hasn’t been updated yet.

Andy, thanks for the tips and for the great compliment! I should probably be spending more time checking out Matt Cutts’ and Webmaster Central. I’ll try linking to those blogs soon.

Thanks again for all the great information, everyone. I’m sure other readers of this blog will find this to be very useful information, too. I think it’s time for a group hug…