After building many domains that have PR2 - PR5, I have noticed that the sub pages always end up having one PR less than the PR of the mainpage, if I link to them from my homepage. So if I have a PR5 site it always ends up with PR4 sub pages. And a PR4 site will end up with PR3 sub pages, and so on (as long as I link to those pages from the homepage). I do have a question. How many sub pages can I link to from my homepage and still pass along link juice / PR? Is there any limit when it comes to internal links & sub pages? So far the most sub pages I have build for these kinds of sites is 6, and indeed I can pass a pagerank 4 to all 6 of those sub pages. Could I pass the pagerank to say, 20 or 30 sub pages or more (by linking to them from the homepage)??? Or will building too many internal links on the homepage, lower the PR that is passed to those pages?
You can linking to many internal pages as many as you wanted, those pages are still get PR distributed toward them anyway. However, the more pages = the less PR each page would get. This is similar when you linking to external websites. Refer to number from Google Webmaster Guideline, not more than 100 links each page is optimum, both internal and external links.
Do you mean there is a 2 way equation? Value of incoming links (PR) +/- the outgoing links? However I believe the real question was on the dilution of links leaving the site, and how PR was allocated. Perhaps it is merely a case of dividing them, i.e. with 20 links out on a PR2 page = PR2/20. Again I think the question behind the question is how many links do you advise is feasible? Could you offer some samples or scenarios including the effect of various incoming links?
i think it would correlate to the strength of your initial pr 6 - so if that was pulling its pr from a pr 8 etc somewhere, then i dont think you could drop the juice to 20-30 pages... if it had shed loads of the kinda pr linkies then maybe you could throw it to 20+ what would the implications on the site design be? Can u not link the 3rd teir pages from the second and still pass a lower juice - if you build targeted juice to the 2nd tier inners? as for a number... mmmmmm interesting thread indeed!
It's not true that your sub pages would always have PR just 1 less than the home page.Suppose your home PR is 5 & there are 5 sub pages which are linked from the home page.Here your all sub pages would get PR1 link juice,not PR4.
You should be able to pass page rank to 20 or 30 internal pages. I'd suggest marking the other internal links as nofollow to avoid watering down the PR passed to the pages that you do want to improve.
Not really sure about the "maximum" but according to my site, i have 11 page link to homepage and all of them are one PR less than homepage
I think Home page PR does not get distributed to internal pages. It all depends on incomng links pointing to a particular webpage or importance of the page. It may happen your home page dos not much traffic than one of your internal service page.
Sorry, but you are wrong in your assumption. I have many internal pages that I created on blogs with utter CRAP for content (duplicate, spun content to be exact). Each page ended up with 1 PR less than the homepage (I linked to them from my homepage). NONE of the posts have any backlinks at all; they just have a link from the homepage of the site.
Personally, I would like to nofollow those links except to main product catalogs from homepage. Generally speaking, a well structured site navigation system with your targeted keywords as anchor text would be necessary. BTW, I have several sub pages with the same PR of 4 as my homepage. Have a nice day,