What exactly is my PR?

On my Coventry City forum it shows up as a PR2 sometimes.

I think the PR has been saved to /index.php rather than the domain?

Then othertimes it shows up as a PR0?

I am lost

 

Hi Nick,

The PR (Page Rank) is something that Google invented - the biggest factor that effects it is the number & quality (relevance) of back links - inward to your website pages.

But if you also offer outward links this can dilute your PR.

Also The Number of links on a page can effect/reduce your PR, if Google thinks there are too many outward links it can classify you as a 'link farm' and down grade your perceived value to the internet.

The amount and quality of text content will also have an effect, too little = low value to the net, too much crammed with too many repetitions of key words = 'Key word Stuffing' etc.

As you can see there are many ways to fall foul of PR.

Ideally you would have a page with good informative content, up to 5 outward links to web pages of the same or similar content, inward links to this page from other pages with similar content, hopefully with the same or higher PR than yours, finally try to get good anchor text on to the inward links.

eg. "Click Here" does not help you as much as "learn more about (your subject)".

Let me know if I can help more,

Best wishes,

Carl Henry

 

PR does not mean much because it can be faked but it mostly has to do with the amount of links you have to your site.

 

Your showing as PR0 on my toolbar.

 

funny, http://www.skybluestalk.co.uk/index.php shows up as pr2 on my toolbar but http://www.skybluestalk.co.uk shows a 0..
i think this was the authors question in the first place.

 

I would buy some text link ads for pr.

 

Yes that was it!

I have a redirect to index.php so if somebody puts in the wrong URL they still get the site.

Does this have something to do with it?

 

you should never split top-level page and home. index.* redirects to the main page by default, what you have is a duplicate content issue.

What exactly is the reason for this redirect? There's probably a better way. Have you thought about a custom 404 that links to the main page?

 

I'm using seopen toolbar and it shows that your forum has PR0.

 

So what is the best way to do this?

Just create a custom error message saying sorry this page does not exist etc?

Will this resolve the page rank splitting issue?