How to handle Gray Bar websites?

Have a look here:

http://forums.seochat.com/google-page-rank-47/seo-chat-with-gray-bar-264.html

Couple of suggestions:
Sign up for Google webmaster tools at:
1) http://www.google.com/webmasters/
and find out if the page(s) are being indexed/spidered.
2) Submit a site map to include the old pages
3) tweak the content and/or change the file name, title, meta keywords to
let google know what the page is about.
4) Otherwise, create new page with more content considering #3 tips.
5) get some links pointing to the old pages, perhaps from other sites you own.
6) submit these pages to isnare and other article networks using the exact url
as a link back.
7) cross fingers and hope Google’s next PR update (rumored to be first week in April) finds these pages.
Hope this helps.

And another… add excerpt/page to your blog.
BTW, assuming these pages are how-to strategy, content pages?
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And add content, add content, add content. Not just general rambling, specific and unique content that others want to link to because it is interesting.

thanks so far.

So gray bar does not mean banned.

A white bar means banned?

The link Dominique posted shows a white bar.
Why should this page be banned?

I wondering if Google invented PR for public relations.
It keeps webmasters talking about them.

Gray bar backs to green bar if you will change the contents to unique contents and they should not match with any of duplicate contents, change title, description in meta tags also.

I have seen many pages with gray even they have good back links, and found that they were not having contents OR the contents were matching with any other page!

I think it’s not important, I have a lot of pages with gray bar but they are found very well by Google

Nothing to worry about. Gray bar means you don’t have google PR, but does not equal to google non-index. you may input site:www.{yoursitename}.com to check google cache.

One of my websites has zero pr and is ranking #10 for online blackjack. PR is worthless.

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but a grey bar for inner pages is bad bad bad.

It basically means Google has lost faith in the page for some reason. You will note that most grey bar pages have either the +30 or the dreaded +950 penalty.

Not many people have been able to recover from the grey-bar.

Dom, you link was for a post in 2003, things have changed quite a bit the last 2 months.

the best place to read up on this and the latest Dewey update is at webmasterworld.

If you thought the US ban on gambling had a big affect on affiliates, I would say the latest Google Dance is proving way more severe.

cheers
Merlin