PageRank Is Zero For Some Reason

[AarcMediaGroup]

Now, I'm not a stickler for pagerank, and actually haven't checked the pagerank of ANY of the sites I own and operate in the last year or two, but one of my cronies noticed the other day that our BathroomGetaways.com websites pagerank is 0, despite the fact it ranks well and gets a decent amount of traffic for a great deal of the terms we target.

My guess is that we still just don't have the quality links we need, and we're working on that, but is there anything glaringly obvious that anyone else can see that can be the cause of this?

One thing to note, we did take the site offline for 2-4 months or so towards the end of last year and just relaunched it in January of 2011.  It climbed right back into the rankings almost immediately after our re-launch, so maybe that has something to do with it?

[dignan99]

While your page rank may be zero, your Mozrank is 46/100 which is pretty decent.  It just goes to show you that the PR that can be found via the checkers are either not accurate, or do not matter as much as we may think.  Especially if you are ranking highly for many of your keyword targets.

While I am not a huge fan of the design, it is extremely straightforward.  Where it might be lacking is the unique content and information that would bring value to a visitor.  The other SEO elements seem to be in tact in the few pages I have checked.  You even have quite a few links(although much FEWER than larger competitors.)

The time off is likely the culprit for low rank as the PR is updated quarterly or less. So you may see an uptick in PR in the next round of updates.

[GeorgeDavis]

PageRank only updates two or three times a year and the last one was around January.  If you are getting traffic and your site: query looks good, I wouldn't give it a moments thought.

[AarcMediaGroup]

I was leaning towards this as being the culprit.  We re-launched the site towards the end of January and had completely yanked it offline for roughly 3-4 months or so.  Thanks for the quick "chime in".

[seanmccauley]

I had agonised over this issue especially after reading Danny Dover's SEO Secrets book, wherein he suggested that a PR of zero on a site of any reasonable age indicated something was quite wrong, whereas a PR of 1 merely indicated a much less sinister lack of authority. We have managed to 'SEO' our site well since then and managed many page 1 positions and still have PR of 0. I tend to consider some or Danny's secrets to be tales?

[firstconversion]

That seems like a pretty sensible take by Danny. I would be looking into any site that had 0 TBPR if its been running a while and I know it has a decent link profile