PageRank changing

I had a question I thought one of you might know the answer to. Our site http://www.ridegear.com uses a Javascript when a user lands on a page. That script refreshes the page and serves the shopping cart. It is sorta like a redirect.

When I go to our home page I see a ranking of 5, and then when the page finishes loading it gives me a 2. There is a similar effect on any other page on our site.

My question is does this hurt us in the sense of page popularity and other things that go into determining the search results as well as rankings in AdWords.

Hope that makes sense as I am a newbie.

Thanks,
Jim

Jim,

Definitely it's hurting you - Google has cached only your index page, and the only relevance to any searches comes from your title, there is no text in there to help people find you. The shopping cart page isn't indexed at all by Google, possible because the cart introduces session id's or something.

I would reproduce the first shopping cart page in pure html and put it as my index page - you'll get many more hits this way.

Gringo.

I am a little confused to what you are saying. You can reach any page on our site as pure html and it displays fine minus the shopping cart. I can reproduce this by turning off javascript. With javascript off I can naviate through my entire site directly from the links as is.

Jim