I noticed that the PR is showing 0/10 for my site http://www.articlewarehouse.com .
A few weeks ago it was a 5/10. Is this a penalty?

Interestingly, when I type http://articlewarehouse.com , it shows a PR 2/10.

Could any of these have caused a penalty?

1) While playing with setting up a subdomain (ie, http://travel.articlewarehouse.com), I put a 'travel' link from the mainpage to the subdomain (used a re-direct).

2) Someone might have submitted an article, that had in the resource box a link to a bad domain/neighborhood?

3) For a few days, I experimented with a free javascript code (it checks iframe clicks, then writes the web page name to a file, so you can tell where/when people are clicking on ads like adsense). I put it on some article pages, it didnt seem to work, so I removed it.

Thoughts?

Thanks,
Carl

"""I noticed that the PR is showing 0/10 for my site http://www.articlewarehouse.com .
A few weeks ago it was a 5/10. Is this a penalty?

Interestingly, when I type http://articlewarehouse.com , it shows a PR 2/10. """

I get confused on my sites between http://site.com,http://www.site.com,and http://site.com/index.htm. All would have different ranks on google if they are listed. When promoting I stick to http://site.com but there may or may not be advantages to using the others. With the redirect it's not totally clear what you're saying, does your main page use meta refresh?

Just a little comment with your site, It don't work good in Netscape navigator.

Looks like its back to 5/10. Cool

I love your site. I used it to get some articles for mine www.bxmag.com to populate my db.
If you were looking at the toolbar, I have noticed that too from time to time. The toolbar is only intended to be an estimate of your PR by using similar algorithms. I have noticed two instances of the bar not working or greying out on me, and then it comes back to life a few minutes later. I think it is the google people revising the algorithms it uses.

PS. I requested Alexa to update your thumb image. They usually take a day.

http://info.alexa.com/data/details?p...warehouse.com/

Later

More people are linking to http://www.articlewarehouse.com than to
http://articlewarehouse.com . In the eyes of a browser, and most programs, the URL without the "WWW" is treated as a seperate URL. That's why one rank is a 5 and the other is a 2.