Anyone else experience this problem? Homepage has a lower PR than the internal pages. I doubt many external sites are linking to the internal pages, so is it possible the homepage is being penalized for something? http://www.villageofponderosa.com
Make sure that your home page link links back to the domain on its own as aposed to index or default.
I have seen couple of sites having home PR < internal pages PR. Have a deep look of your home page, check for the outbound links(if excessive in numbers it will hurt your ranking). Do update regularly your home page. Check you are not doing anything that violates webmasters guidelines. Then it will be automatically rectified in the google's next PR update.
I think you will find that it more to do with the Google Toolbar PageRank updates, Google often update the homepage and subpage Toolbar PR at seperate times. Don't ask me why, it just seems to be the way they do it. So don't worry your real homepage PR is probably larger than your subpages, it's just an issue of you doing link development just after a homepage PR update but prior to a subpage PR update.
It can be happen when the PR update didn't finish yet. You should wait and see PR update or you may see your homepage PR higher than inner pages.
PR is based on pages and backlinks the page has. Maybe that's because most webmasters link to your internal pages, not your home pages. But interesting thing is that your home page has no difference with the internal pages, and it's not like a home page of a site. For me, even it's better to remove it.
Usually the homepage has more PR because it gets links from all the internal pages. I think the theory that it's because the toolbar isn't updated at the same time for all pages makes most sense here.
I'm also seeing pr 2 for main page and pr0 for other pages. But then again, it looks like you are using javascript menus, so you aren't really passing any link juice to your subpages.
I had that problem before. My linking structure was all over the place, once I streamlined my internal linking then I removed links on my homepage that were pointing to other sites. the next two pr updates my homepage jumped ahead of my inner pages.
I'm VERY confident this is what the "problem" - not that it really is a problem, it's just toolbar PR. The same thing happened to one of my sites, I had PR4 inner pages and PR3 homepage, but with the next Google index page update I went straight to PR5, without any further link building, it really isn't a huge issue. I think you will find that it was just a matter of Google updating the toolbar PR at different times for different parts of sites.
Thanks for the advice. I usually use checkpagerank.com and I"m not sure why some people are seeing a PR of 2/0 for home/internal pages. But I updated the site so the links back to the homepage aren't pointing to the index page, and will just wait and see what happens.
Let me just throw this out there aswell, The google toolbar pr is not accurate. It flucates up and down. There is a small article on theseokit.com about it.