grey PR bar on new sites = not indexed / assigned PR yet
site with existing PR gets dropped to PR0 =
a) you're possibly penalized and probably fucked
b) they've adjusted the public PR scale and you don't have enough backlinks to qualify for a PR 1
site with existing PR gets a grey bar =
a) you're really fucked and a ban probably just happened, check to see if you're still in the index
b) they're doing a PR update and PR is all over the place - check again later
some of the stuff on that webworkshop page is kind of outdated... the stuff about increasing your PR by creating new pages and circulating the PR doesn't really work in 2009. You need genuine external backlinks.
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