Internal Page PR

This may sound like a daft question, but is it possible for an internal page of a website to have a higher Page Rank than the index page?

 

Yes, if it has more incoming links than index page.

 

Absolutely. Your home page might be generic whereas your sub pages are probably more specific to a particular subject. It's possible that the linker thinks it more beneficial to visitors to link to the specific page than the generic home page.

 

yes i have it in one of my site

 

Yes. One of my sites has a home page PR5, but many of the internal pages are PR6 and one is a PR7.

Mark

 

Take http://www.linkbook.org as an example. Yes it is possible.

 

I had a new site last update all internal pages went PR4 and the homepage only got PR3. The funny thing is the only links the subpages had were from the homepage.

 

Sometimes I wonder why it happens - I have a site with a PR4 homepage and a PR6 subpage. The homepage is the only page, that links to the subpage :-S

 

yes, it can be . one of my friends web has pr4 home but it also has pr 7 subpages

 

yeah that can be possible when you have quality backlinks to the inner pages of your site.

 

Thanks for the answers - I thought it must be possible, but I have never seen it. If you think about it, the internal pages are more likely to have interesting content than the home page which is usually general information about the site. With my site, all of my main landing pages have the same page rank as my home page - I was asking because one of my pages has just got some decent backlinks and I was wondering if on the next update maybe it would show up as a higher PR than the home page.

 

Yes it is. For example, my website is PR5, but my <url>portal.php is PR6.

 

I think there is a chance.
But it will happen rarely.

 

If a lot of authority links point to the subpage, it's very much possible. I had written a tutorial some time ago, and it's pretty much wanted these days and it's got a PR 3, where as the homepage has only PR 2.

Regards,
~G

 

Now this is weird. Did the homepage used to be PR6+ before?

 

yes its possible , if that subpage has more quality links then homepage

 

With mine, it was a new site and first PR update. I had 15 or so inner pages go PR4 and the homepage was only PR3.

Even the forums calendar went PR3 with zero backlinks, and was 3 clicks from the homepage. Some were 4 clicks away and went PR4, so trust me there was no logic behind the PR spread.

 

Agree with you. I have a website with PR5 for homepage and PR6 for a few pages. I have valuable backlinks for these pages.

 

Yes, two of my pages (I have very smallsite - approx 24 pages) have higher than index & very few backlinks. I don't know why this is so, because it's not unique content either

 

Hmmm there is definately some wierd stuff going on with Google these days.