I thought if a site was pr5 then the next page level down would be pr4 or pr3? How come so many sites (and I notice this with directories in particular) all the categories are pr0 even if the homepage has quite high pr? thanks in adv...
Google is cracking down on a lot of directory and link pages and not passing PR to inner pages. It's seems that a lot of these pages with no PR are in supplemental results.
In other words part of their formula now is... if ( same_domain_link ) { PR = PR * 0.1 } or something along those lines
Same here. Some of my inner pages are PR 3 and PR 4 while the homepage for which I have built all the links are only PR 1. EX: http://www.downzine.com - Main page. http://www.downzine.com/submit.php - Inner page.
It's not quite that simple. Links from inside the domain don't pass on as much value as links from outside the site. It's less common for other web sites to link to a lower level area of a directory. Most link directly to the homepage. When the domain starts building up enough link strength and trust, it won't require as many incoming links for other pages to start showing higher link strength, or PR. This can take some time.
A lot of directories and word cloud sites are created on pre-existing domains with PR, many of which have been dropped and picked back up so it's highly likely that the PR will be gone on the next update. You should check the whois history and archive.org before paying for a link on a site like that. Otherwise, it could just be new pages like sonicdark said.
i think u need to make nice internal linking structure so crawler can go through each pages and index easily. internal linking structure might be one of the reason why pr in not passing to other pages.
actually I didn't really have an example in mind, but I found this one for you main site for dessert recipes PR-4 next level page for seasonal desserts PR-0 That page has probably been there for 2 years! I know it probably has few/no incoming links but thought some of the main site PR would "rub off" onto the page....maybe PR-1? I have noticed this with a LOT of sites recently and just figured there must have been some kind of algo change to stop entire sites ranking well.
see my previous post, it's not just about directories (although I have one that is 3 years old and all the categories are still PR-0)
This update only seems to only affect NON_MAIN pages. Since Word Cloud's are all 1 page I don't see the rank dropping. No one here has said there main page has dropped...And word cloud's are 1 page only wouldn't make a whole lot of sense if one dropped now would it?
Google could be skipping pages that have no unique content, especiall if all the pages have the same title and description. Google is probably ignoring pages created by automated script that have the same title and desc. They are not completely ignored but they end up in the Suplemental results.
Each page on your website has different page rank.. I have 5 PR of my homepage and 2-3-4 for inner pages and even 0 at many pages.
My thoughts exactly. Big directories often add a new category when they have enough sites to fill it. Wait a PR update or two and it should increase.
It's not new. That page in particular ranks #8 on google.com #3 on Google.co.uk for that term. Are you actually reading the thread? and it's not about directories.. directories was just an example.
I agree to both you. I guess the same before asking for url. Hey, I am seeing PR3 for inner pages like http://www.dessert-recipes.co.uk/DESSERT-RECIPE-sponge-cake-recipes.htm and http://www.dessert-recipes.co.uk/DESSERT-RECIPE-christmas-birthday-recipes.htm Am I wrong? OR My Google Toolbar is wrong? I think you should check PR of inner pages at many datacenters and then come to conlusion.
You are right! Thanks. It was probably a bad example that I grabbed in a hurry (rep coming) I don't use google toolbar, When I checked using two different sites it was showing PR-0. I just checked it with iwebtool and it's showing PR-3 there. I fully agree with the arguement about new pages/categories for directories not being indexed but it is strange the amount of them that have inner pages or categories without any PR (I have one myself that I just checked with iwebtool! J1uk.com PR-3, categories PR-0)