Hi everyone, On my site Here the pagerank on the main landing page is 2. But looking at the rest of the site most of the other pages are a pagerank of 5. I only noticed cause i'm in the middle of re-doing the site and was going through all the current pages when i noticed the pagerank. Any ideas why, most of the other pages dont have external links? Thanks Peter
Yeah dont worry about it mate it happened in the last Google PR update. Most older sites with PR already for some reason only updated newer pages with no PR. And new sites only updated the home page it was a strange update as a whole really, as is a lot of things that happen with Google. It should sort its self out in the next PR update I should think though.
It's been discussed before, and this is a good read: http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=61489 It happened to me, and it straightened out the next update. The important thing is that my site acted as expected - the high PR page that was buried was not affecting anything, as far as I could see. It seems to just be wrongly attributed to an interior page. It should straighten out for you in the next update. If google takes it's time between updates, I don't think it will happen again. The last one was awfully quick, and the complaints increased...
Sites with very few backlinks tend to have strange PR issues. Build a few hundred links to your homepage and it should sort itself out. Make sure each page has a link to <a href="http://www.scottishlads.co.uk">Home</a> and you can't go wrong.
Thats not 100% true I am thinking though. Well it depends what you class as not having many links, I have a site with over 10,000 backlinks but some of the sub-pages are PR4 since the last update but yet the home page did not alter in the last update. It only did the PR update on new pages added to the site that had no PR all other pages stayed the same. But then on a couple of very new sites I had that had never been though a PR update before was updated on the home page only even though they juped to PR4. What I found was the last update only updated new pages with no PR, but that is only what I found on my sites so it dont mean thats what happened to everybody.
Yeah but the point is that if google f*cked up the PR on the last update and gave new pages a higher PR (which I think they did) then there is nothing we can do about it. PR sure as anything won't affect your rankings anyway. So as long as your internal linking structure is OK (each page links to the homepage and the other major pages with spiderable absolute url's) then thats all you can do.
Oh yeah I know I said dont worry about it in my first post on this thread. I dont sell links or nout so it makes no diffrence to me except with link exchanges some sites still rely on PR to judge your site. But I aint fussed really it will be sorted on the next update hopefully anyways.
The Google Page Ranking system does not discriminate between novice and professional level websites. Nor does it award Page Rank where editorial decisions are concerned. Case in point: I've seen well conceived content pages with 10 to 20 out bound links fare no better in Page Rank than a web site with long lists of mismatched links. Both had Page Ranks of 4 even though there was a remarkable disparity in quality and content. When a large corporation purchases web-based ad space or banner ads, do you think they use the cute little colored Page Rank bar as a measurement? Emphatically no. Media buyers look at a web site’s log statistics for ‘viewers and unique viewer’s per hour, day, month and year. It’s the same principle when companies do media buys for broadcast, radio and print. It’s all about how many readers or how many viewers are attracted. Advertisers set their rates by the analysis of this web traffic to include stats for gender, demographics, click through rates, pages visited, length of visit and much more. Page Rank is a worthless metric.
Thats just not true though when exchnging links it is the first thing people look at when selling links it is the first thing people look at. Granted it is a very bad way to judge sites but none the les people do so that in itself give it value. It is a false value really that only has value at all because people give it value when doing such things I mentioned. Just take a look in the link sales section or any site that sells links. Try exchanging links with sites when you have a PR 0 and your asking to exchange with a PR5. Even though the site may have more traffic it wont get you the exchange unless the webmaster your exchanging links with understands that PR only has a false value. Swaping links with high PR sites is good for increasing PR but then as PR has no Value except a false one why would you want to increase your PR? So yes I hear what your saying but to say it has no value at all is go to far in just the same way lots of webmasters have over rated the value of PR.