how could that happen..? the internal page is a sitemap, disclaimer and a privacy page....WTF ? this is according to iwebtool. then I verified it with my eyes and yup. anyone else had this happpen..?
Sounds like the url to that page in on more sites. Maybe some search engines and other sites picked it up for some words. I have seen crazy things with serach results. Google results for lower rank terms are so far off. I see old sites that do not even exist and alot of message boards for other terms. Something is wrong with googles rank. If a site went down and it was spidered google had it off in few days sometimes sites were down for 3 days and google dropped sites. Now i see sites that have been gone for months still listed. Between last update and google site maps search results seem to be off on google for some terms.
It seems to be a recurring problem, Lukas. http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showpost.php?p=2179027&postcount=2 While it can happen because of good links to an internal page, it can also happen for no apparent reason. Your site should react as though that higher PR is on the homepage however, with the increased crawling and etc. that better pagerank brings. It should straighten out in the next update.
I have the same problem in my forums The member list have PR4 and the site have PR3!! Ofcourse no incoming links for the memberlist url!
i have the same problem (if it was a problem) . because i allwasy wanted my internal pages to have higher pages . visitors will come to your internal pages . visitor will not come to your home page. this is good news for you . you must be happy
happened on my blog. I got one good link from a popular seo blog and the blog page has a higher pr and outranks my homepage for all keywords
well, I agree that visitors going to internal pages more than homepage is good but not good if the internal pages are your disclaimer page or site map page. I do not look to get incoming links to those pages.
I meant to say, the disclaimer and sitemap pages are the ones with PR4 and home and other internal pages, which are most visited are PR3.
Could it be because the sitemap and disclaimer pages are receiving a lot of internal "votes" from the other PR3 pages? Maybe you could create a few "wordy" links with anchors on the disclaimer and sitemap pages to lead to your main page to even things out. I'm only guessing. Very new at all of this.
This happend on one of my sites the main domain is a PR6 but i have a inner page wich is 7. This is becouse thecontent on that page was digged and bookmarked in delicous and link to on other sites ect.. But it also helped my backlinks for the main domain too.
yes this can happen. I had experienced one canonical page in my site which got high pr than home page. Surprisingly that page was not linked anywhere but yes it got lot of visitors at certain time.
When it happened to me, it was the most recently created page... Talking with another webmaster this happened to, they were fairly certain it was the last page indexed before the snapshot date to calculate toolbar PR.
Lukas, a couple thoughts... You need to make use of your robots.txt file to exclude disclaimer pages from ranking in engines. I always exclude those types of pages because they aren't where you would want a new visitor to land on your site. Think of it this way: every page that ranks in the engine needs to be a "landing page" or page that can draw a visitor in and keep them interested. Your site map page is another story...that one cannot be excluded, but not to worry...it's actually not a bad page for a new visitor to land on. Bottom line...you need to work on getting more links to your homepage, and you will overcome this. Good luck, my friend.
I have the same problem. My homepage was 4, then after 2500 of my pages were indexed by google, my home page went to 3. But the internal pages like blog and several other important pages are still 4. I hope that more higher ranked pages will push my homepage back to 4, maybe 5?
everyone, thanks for the suggestions my internal PR3 pages do rank well in the serps, 1st page. it does makes sense now that the disclaimer and sitemap links are on just about every page but so is the home page link. But that home page link is in an external js., no wonder !!! by golly, now I'm onto something. corrected it now. Thanks
Google gives more weight to some things- and less to others. Out of curiosity, Lukas, do you mind sharing a link to your site? It'd be interesting to take a look!
That site uses frames, which throws another curve ball at the situation... A tool that can help in finding problems such as this is the SEO Chat pagerank search: http://www.seochat.com/seo-tools/pagerank-search/ Try a site: or allinurl: search for your domain, ordered by pagerank... but it may show different PR than your toolbar.