Comments on: 1st Q of the month – “Why this page has PR 8 when the page is not even crawled by Google?”

By: Jeetbo

Jeetbo — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 15:55:30 +0000

I just answered it, please do discuss and debate over it.

By: Sachin Singh

Sachin Singh — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 07:58:46 +0000

This may happen when the domain of the page is old but the design is new which has been not crawled by the Google spider till date. This technique can be categorized under black hat SEO technique and in technical terms we can call it as “Page swapping”.

You can optimize a page and when its has good position and PR you can replace it with new page. One serious problem with this technique is that some search engines now reindex pages very quickly, and at the moment it’s impossible to know when the search engines will return.

By: Saptarshi

Saptarshi — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 16:19:30 +0000

If a page is not cached that doesn’t indicate that the page is not crawled. I can have a page crawled and indexed but not cached. There is a big difference between a page in cache (or rather a cached version of the page) and a page in index.
The page can definitely be in Index and have a PR of 8 ( or whatever) and yet not be cached. Try to look up the URL with the site: command in Google and see if the page is indexed – in most likelihood, you will find it indexed.

By: Navendu

Navendu — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 15:41:52 +0000

A page does not have to have a cached version available in order to have PageRank.

Method?

By: Siddharth Kharbanda

Siddharth Kharbanda — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 15:15:41 +0000

1. The basics say that the PR of a page is directly proportional to Googles crawling. But even when the index page is more than pr 0, as Google penetrates more into the pages, with even deeper links, the PR decreases and at a certain point Google stops crawling. The presence of deeper links increases the PR for those pages and so Google continues crawling. the catch here is that once the index page / home page becomes to a threshold or a reasonable value, the presence of deep links do not matter. They do not directly affect the crawling rate. Hence the corollary!