Is PR 0 better than PR N/A?

by thedog
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Just wondering... one of my sites is now PR 0! woo hoo... I think?

N/A just looks bad.
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  • Profile picture of the author Rick Britton
    I got the same!

    site went PR0 too

    I dont know the answer
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  • Profile picture of the author rodelu
    Pr0 means the page has been indexed by Google, N/a means it has not been indexed yet. Pr0 means it doesn't have authority in google's eyes yet. Put a lot of good content and backlinks to get a better PR
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    • Profile picture of the author That Guy
      Originally Posted by rodelu View Post

      Pr0 means the page has been indexed by Google, N/a means it has not been indexed yet. Pr0 means it doesn't have authority in google's eyes yet. Put a lot of good content and backlinks to get a better PR
      Not true, I've seen a lot of sites that are on Google with the PR of n/a...
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      • Profile picture of the author Newman8r
        N/A will occur even if a site is indexed but there hasn't been a PR update yet, which doesn't happen all that often.
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        • Profile picture of the author sarged2
          Originally Posted by Newman8r View Post

          N/A will occur even if a site is indexed but there hasn't been a PR update yet, which doesn't happen all that often.
          I dont think so.
          Even there is no pr update pages do get pr0.
          In general, pr0 means it is good, and with next update it may turnout into a real number. If its n/a then something is not right...
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      • Profile picture of the author princee
        Originally Posted by That Guy View Post

        Not true, I've seen a lot of sites that are on Google with the PR of n/a...
        Yes True actually even sometimes i think website is old still it show like that so its not like that for sure as you said even pr site also appears sometimes when you check
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    • Profile picture of the author Daredevils11
      Originally Posted by That Guy View Post

      Not true, I've seen a lot of sites that are on Google with the PR of n/a...
      Originally Posted by rodelu View Post

      Pr0 means the page has been indexed by Google, N/a means it has not been indexed yet. Pr0 means it doesn't have authority in google's eyes yet. Put a lot of good content and backlinks to get a better PR
      That is partially true, PR N/A sites also crawled by Google, It means that when sites start crawling in google , it start from Page rank n/a, after that Google start ranking it according to the Google algorithm, page rank start from N/a, 0,1 ........., according. Hence Pr 0 is better than pr n/a.
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    • Profile picture of the author paulgl
      Originally Posted by rodelu View Post

      Pr0 means the page has been indexed by Google, N/a means it has not been indexed yet. Pr0 means it doesn't have authority in google's eyes yet. Put a lot of good content and backlinks to get a better PR
      LOL! Are you kidding me? PR has nothing to do with being indexed. This thread
      is indexed, PR n/a.

      Where do you people get this stuff?

      PR is rounded off, but I can't remember if it's rounded down or up.
      PR0 means somewhere between 0 and 1.

      PR n/a may actually have PR greater than 0, but not enough to be
      rounded up to "0" and be displayed as such.

      PR n/a and PR0 are worth about the same, as the PR is negligible
      in each case.

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      • Profile picture of the author Mike Anthony
        Originally Posted by paulgl View Post


        PR is rounded off, but I can't remember if it's rounded down or up.
        PR0 means somewhere between 0 and 1.

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        Its rounded down for the toolbar PR but as far as the algo is concerned its quite often fractional. So you can have a PR2 that is nearly as powerful as a PR3 because in the algo it could be say a 2.95 but in the toolbar it will show nothing but PR2

        I think why some people think indexing makes it a PR0 is because quite often when a new page is crawled its conveys a bit of juice. So its not really the indexing but the links coming in that have been crawled while the site was being indexed.
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  • Profile picture of the author Suthan M
    lol, sorry guys.. not being mean or anything- but i dont really see the difference between PR0 and N/A ... Its more or less the same :-)

    No offense, just an observation :-)
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  • Profile picture of the author leogood
    PR0 means google has rank the site, albeit a rank of zero.
    PR n/a means google has not rank the site at all.
    PR0 is a big step forward, believe it or not.
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    • Profile picture of the author thedog
      Originally Posted by leogood View Post

      PR0 means google has rank the site, albeit a rank of zero.
      PR n/a means google has not rank the site at all.
      PR0 is a big step forward, believe it or not.
      Hell ye, I'll take my 0 over an N/A any day.

      Just 10 to go!
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  • Profile picture of the author webgyorglobal
    Hi,
    Page rank is 0 is always better than N/A.

    Thanks,
    Webgyor Global.
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    • Profile picture of the author russie999
      Originally Posted by webgyorglobal View Post

      Hi,
      Page rank is 0 is always better than N/A.

      Thanks,
      Webgyor Global.
      Yeah, I also heard that PR 0 is better than N/A but seems it does not have any difference...
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  • Profile picture of the author WiiLoveSuccess
    I can only tell you for sure that every site I've put up and submitted to Google (and other search engines for that matter) started off with a N/A and after a couple of months of getting backlinks, adding content and resubmitting, writing articles with Author links to the site, and writing blog posts at the site they moved to 0. So I must conclude that Google starts you at N/A and for whatever their reasons improve you to a 0 ... I've found it a bit longer to get to a PR of 1. It just seems to me to be a factor of time and quality activity within that time.

    How it all makes sense? I'll leave that to the SEO experts.
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  • Profile picture of the author rajyenranjan
    PR0 means google has rank the site,albeit a rank of zero.
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  • Profile picture of the author epathj
    PR n/a means google has not rank the site at all.
    I believe that PR 0 is better than PR n/a
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  • Profile picture of the author jindalmedic
    Yes, it's better than N/A...
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  • Profile picture of the author RosieCain
    If PR is reduced to zero from high PR (says 3 or 4), then it is not good thing since it indicates Google has penalized the site.
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  • Profile picture of the author ayurak
    PR 0 is better than NA. Why not you focus on getting 1 or 2 or even 3 pr, get some relevant back link and keep updating your website.
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  • Profile picture of the author eurekapsycrille
    One of the most biggest misconceptions in SEO lies within this so called "PR". Why? People think that having a good PR means that they can get on top. That is totally wrong. There are many sites having low PR but still on top.

    About the question, it's not actually a big issue if you moved from PR n/a to PR 0. It's just a small puzzle to be considered out of hundred ones. I'm sorry to tell you, but as Paul said, PR is negligible and that's the very truth that has to be understood by everyone.
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    • Profile picture of the author Mike Anthony
      Originally Posted by eurekapsycrille View Post

      One of the most biggest misconceptions in SEO lies within this so called "PR". Why? People think that having a good PR means that they can get on top. That is totally wrong. There are many sites having low PR but still on top.

      TRue but PR does matter when it comes to getting links
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  • Profile picture of the author HenryW
    I personally think that psychologically pr0 is better than n/a, but I do not think that there is a big difference between the two.

    Get pr 1 or more then you can feel like you are making some progress.

    Some people chase PR and think that it is the holy grail, I do not.
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    • Profile picture of the author jonnyhardbaked
      Originally Posted by HenryW View Post

      Some people chase PR and think that it is the holy grail, I do not.

      We cannot blame them because of the information they acquire, but this thing can absolutely be changed. Just be aware
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  • Profile picture of the author eurekapsycrille
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  • Profile picture of the author rtailor
    PR0 is also one of the page ranks of Google. N/A means that the page has not been assigned even the first rank and is under evaluation.
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  • Profile picture of the author the lord
    I think it depends on the content inside it, if its content is good then it would be a nice site.
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    • Profile picture of the author paulgl
      Originally Posted by the lord View Post

      I think it depends on the content inside it, if its content is good then it would be a nice site.
      LOL!!! Roughly 4 informative/decent replies out of 30+! You rock!

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  • Profile picture of the author murrad
    If the site is new the google haven't given any PR and it will be N/A and if the website was *live* for somedays/months then google will assign PR as 0 and then it has to roll on to 10. Some used to say that N/A can be due to black hat technique which is not true.
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  • Profile picture of the author jonatan
    Of course it is... N/A means it is not indexed yet so...
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  • Profile picture of the author stephencammeron
    It means next to nothing. Toolbar PR is not something to be bothered with. It doesn't matter if you have n/a PR, PR1, PR2 or PR3, you can still outrank pages with PR 6,7 or 8 that's what matters!
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  • Profile picture of the author warrich
    Congrats to you (I think). Work on making it better now. N/A means that you were previously not considered fit to be assigned a PR (even though it was 0). Now you can claim that you are now in the PR race and all you have to do is work on bettering it.
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  • Profile picture of the author alantay
    It just make you feel better to have 0 instead of N/A

    To me, it does not give any advantage having 0.
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  • Profile picture of the author Clyde
    Nah, no difference.
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  • Profile picture of the author nicolenattan
    Well most people have miss-conception about it. They say that finally their blog goes on to PR0. Well that truth is google crawled your site and give you PR0 meaning it doesn't have enough backlinks and quality. But if your still NA it means you still have time to do more works to your site reason because search engine not yet verify your entire site and not given you yet a rate of PR.
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  • Profile picture of the author rakesh1600193
    PR N/A means you are not in the eye of google.com
    PR 0 means you site is indexed and have got some page rank.
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  • Profile picture of the author Targeted Traffic
    What PR n/a means: It can mean two things. Either your site is fairly new & haven’t been online between two public PR updates (usually 3 months), or your site has been penalized by Google. So if you have a old site that had PR before but now showing a gray bar in pagerank, you should check your site address in Google search. If your site is still there in search, you can relax that you are not banned.

    What PR0 means: PR0 means that your site has been indexed. But due to the lack of quality of backlinks it is somewhere between PR0 to 1. If you have quite a few backlinks & your PR is still 0, then your backlinks are not relevant & quality enough.

    Therefore..yes! rejoice for this progress and now work hard on quality content and links
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  • Profile picture of the author deejayvirg
    I don't think that there's any difference.
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    • Profile picture of the author paulgl
      44 posts here, mostly nonsense...

      Do you people ever read the REAL replies?!?!?

      PR has nothing to do with indexing or penalizing.

      But, we'll see how many more useless replies this thing gets...

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      • Profile picture of the author smorse1
        @paulgl
        I am just shaking my head at some of the crappy remarks here as well-even a small amount of research would reveal that most of these folks have no clue.
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    Is PR11 any good?
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    • Profile picture of the author oogyboogawa
      Originally Posted by yukon View Post

      Is PR11 any good?
      That must mean that you have at least 11 pages indexed on your site.
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  • Profile picture of the author Ibcontact
    PR 0 Than N/A ... It's better and it's show small ROI...
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    • Profile picture of the author SCY
      of course PR 0 is better than N/A. PR 0 has evaluated since N/A has not
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  • Profile picture of the author supaH
    PR N/A is given to sites that haven't been live through a Google PR Update and PR 0 is for sites that have gone through a PR update but aren't worthy of anything higher than PR0.

    That is my belief ...
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  • Profile picture of the author phuongle
    forget the pagerank, i can be at the number #1 with N/a PR
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  • Profile picture of the author kimseo
    Originally Posted by thedog View Post

    Just wondering... one of my sites is now PR 0! woo hoo... I think?

    N/A just looks bad.
    I believe PR N/A is better than PR 0

    PR 0 means page has been considered for pagerank and being given PR 0 but PR N/A means page hasn't been considered yet
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    • Profile picture of the author connorbringas
      PR0 is better, however make sure you are increasing the domain authority and you will get a higher PR. Anything is better than an N/A unless you are staying a PR0 for a few years..then id suspect something else.
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      • Profile picture of the author limestone614
        I would say yes, however PR doesn't matter for sure.

        I own an 8 year old site, minimal "SEO", it is still a PR0.

        However it still receives plenty of traffic from the big G and always has. The site sells TV Parts so its quite niche, but not an exact match by any means, it ranks for thousands of part numbers and make/model combinations.

        I wouldn't worry too much about your PR, that's all I say.
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  • Profile picture of the author Dr MaxIM
    To me 0 means worse as it proves that my site is actualy has PR0. N/A shows that Google is still deciding about it and it can go up (or down if PR was not zero before it had become N/A).
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