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September 18, 2007

Google Webmaster Tools Not Showing PageRank Pages for Some Sites?

When you login to Google Webmasters Tools and click on your "Crawl stats" under the statistics section, you are suppose to see a screen like this:

Google Webmaster Tools PageRank Bug?

Notice it shows two tables, the first is for "The PageRank of your pages in Google" and the second is for "Your page with the highest PageRank." But some people are missing the "Your page with the highest PageRank" table. I see it on some of my reports but not all. For example, my web development company's site is not coming up with that table, as seen below in this screen shot:

Google Webmaster Tools PageRank Bug?

There are others noticing this problem also at DigitalPoint Forums. So it is not just me.

Is this a sign of changes to come to PageRank? I doubt it, but who knows.

Forum discussion at DigitalPoint Forums.



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posted rustybrick in Google Optimization at September 18, 2007 7:40 AM Comments (6)

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It is probably becoming safe to say that Google will discontinue to displaying PageRank to the public, particularly for newer pages. If we look at what Matt Cutts recently said about PageRank along with this specific case, we should most likely no longer worry about PR in general.

 

Posted by Yaniv at September 18, 2007 09:25

I recently had a portion of medium appear for one website I'm currently developing. There are about five pages with the highest page rank so Google shows nothing there. Anyway, I am trying to figure out does medium start with PR4. Any ideas?

 

Posted by No Name at July 25, 2008 21:32

I'm going to guess that the sites missing the "Your page with the highest PageRank" section were among the first sites "enrolled" in the Google Webmaster Tools program, when it was still called "Sitemaps". I have the same problem - early adopter sites do not display this data but sites added later do. I suspect that when Google added this feature, they didn't ensure it showed up for (all) sites previously enrolled. Thus, me thinks it is a bug.

 

Posted by Sean Carlos at September 8, 2008 11:17

I just added a new website a couple of months ago and having the same problems!

 

Posted by Erwin at February 3, 2009 08:03

When I login and view my Webmaster Tools all that showing up is some sites that I have added sitemaps for and verified. There is further no options to view anything else (backlinks etc) related to my sites.

 

Posted by Leon van Tubbergh at April 26, 2009 04:42

I can verify that it's present in none of our 30 website profiles in GWT.

 

Posted by Dejan Petrovic at October 18, 2009 19:28

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