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Hi,
I'm having my own site. I've checked its page rank and it is shown 4 (some pages are having 3) from all the datacentres of Google, and many other websites.
But I'm afraid to see "Suspicious Page Rank" comments in lots of websites, while checking the page rank. Some are saying, "We cannot determine the page rank of this site", though all of them are showing PR 4 at the same time in results.
What does it implies. Can any SEO expert check this and tell me the reason. I'll be glad to to know some suggestions to resolve this problem.

For assistance, I'm providing my sites' URLs here:
(Page Rank 4)
(Page Rank 3)

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Short answer: the inconsistent messages you see are almost always a measurement or tooling issue, not a hidden penalty on your site. and were right to calm the concern — the PageRank value shown by public tools is just one noisy signal and those tools use different methods (caching, toolbar queries, scraping) that can fail or disagree.

Practical diagnostic checklist (quick, repeatable):

  • Confirm crawlability: look for Googlebot requests in server logs and verify pages return 200 (not a redirect or 4xx/5xx).
  • Check page-level differences: PageRank is per-URL. Different internal linking, canonical tags or redirects can make your homepage show higher "PR" than an inner page.
  • Inspect robots/meta directives and X-Robots-Tag headers to ensure pages are not accidentally blocked from indexing.
  • Review inbound links with multiple backlink tools (they disagree, but patterns help). A big discrepancy between link profiles and reported PR can explain “suspicious” flags.
  • If a single third-party checker shows “We cannot determine” or “Suspicious,” try another tool or contact that tool’s operator — often the error is their query method or rate limiting.

Context: PageRank is a well-known link-based signal but it is only one part of ranking; Google uses many signals and public toolbar values are unreliable and updated infrequently (see the original PageRank description and background). For real answers, prioritize crawl/index status and traffic trends rather than a single PR number.

References: PageRank — Wikipedia and the original PageRank patent (US6285999B1).

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Don't worry about it ... The PR that the Google toolbar spits out has been widely known within the SEO industry as completely stale / old / just plain flat out wrong data for about a year now. It's Google's way of making sure that we don't "buy pagerank" or do all of that black hat stuff.

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Don't worry about it ... The PR that the Google toolbar spits out has been widely known within the SEO industry as completely stale / old / just plain flat out wrong data for about a year now. It's Google's way of making sure that we don't "buy pagerank" or do all of that black hat stuff.

Thank you Mam for your reply. So, are you assuring that it's not a problem at all? Can you please tell me, when or how this unwanted comments will disappear?

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It is not a problem at all - whatever the Google PR toolbar says. Don't focus on it. Instead, sign up for Google's Webmaster Tools at www.google.com/webmasters/ and it will tell you the truth about how your site is doing in Google.

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Correct don't worry on PR and least bother for same.

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