Guys,
First off a word of warning... You will see lots of stuff said/posted about Google and what it does.. but unless you see it "supported" by evidence dont believe it!
Fuseblown,
Re- the site your PM'd me... (I will use
http://www.fbsdomain.com/ in examples.)
#1 - Your site -
http://www.fbsdomain.com/ - has no PR according to the google toolbar - A "greyed-out" bar indicates a page that Google doesn't know about , or possibly a banned page.
#2 - You can find the pages on your domain that Google knows about by using a search like - [ "fbsdomain.com" ] at Google, or a more accurate way is to use [ site:fbsdomain.com fbsdomain.com ]
If you do the first search Google returns only 2 pages and hides 9 others as not relevant. If you do the 2nd search Google will list all 13 pages. These are the pages that Google "knows about" on your domain. I could find no links back to the root on any of the pages listed.
#3 - If -
http://www.fbsdomain.com/ - has no PR, then it most likely needs incoming - relevant - keyword - specific links from currently ranked/known pages... either owned by you or by others.
#4 - Using the search - [ "fbsdomain.com" ] - Google calls 9 of your pages "not relevant" - the most likely reason is - they all have the same keywords in the page title, and similar body text. This makes the pages look the same to Google and they are "downgraded" in value.
# 5 - The PR in the pages listed via - [ site:fbsdomain.com fbsdomain.com ] - comes from the pages that are linked to those galley pages.(usually via straight HTML links not cj out script links). You can find those links by using the Google toolbar to display the backward links to those pages. The only links that will appear in the "backward links" are pages that are PR 4 or greater. So you can have backward links that Google does not show you.. they will just be <PR4.
phew.... more coming.. I need lunch......
DD