Am I doing something wrong here? Nearly 95% of the links I personally have posted or requested have been to my main page (http://www.exclusivefreegames.com/}. And it has no page rank. Now - get this, I go to http://www.exclusivefreegames.com/about.htm and it has a pr of 2??? How the hell did THIS happen? All of my affiliates and sigs and posts link to the main page.... Is something wrong with the google toolbar or google itself?
Not sure mate, but a lot of people have reported similar stuff (including myself), where the PR of the home page is more than the PR of internal pages despite the fact that most people get BLs to their home page. One possibility could be that Google has not fully updated the toolbar ...... although I kinda doubt this as a lot of people (including me) have seen their sites' home page's PR change. The other theory is that Google has made some changes to the PR algo, and the "new algo" not only looks at Bls but also looks at the amount of content. I have seen one of the internal pages of a site go to a PR3 whereas the home page is a PR2. But, this internal page has a lot of content whereas the home page hardly has any content. Another person on the Google PR Toolbar update thread has reported similar stuff ...... so, until this is confirmed I would just recommend that you go ahead and write heaps of content for your site. In any case, good content doesn't harm anybody, does it?
I checked this theory against my own site and it doesn't hold. My home page went from PR0 to PR2. More than a few of the internal pages went from PR0 to PR4 and they have even less content that the home page.
I thought backlinking was more important than content...(that's the issue I was adressing here)...but then again mebbe im just a stupid newbie. Either way - why is this in website reviews?
Backlinks and content go hand-in-hand. But homepage having lesser PR than a subsequent page is strange!!!
Having a higher nternal PR that the index is not strange at all, and is exactly how it should be. What IS strange, is the fact that all the links point to the index page. Have a look at the about page that ranks higher, and try to find out where the links are that point to it. Has G started ignoring completely certain links. Has it missed the back links to your homw page from your site etc. Strange that with the home page having all the links, inner pages have higher pr. Unless G has introduced some sort of dampening factor on certain links.
nice broken link on homepage..... = uneven distribution on a 6 pager..... http://www.exclusivefreegames.com/stuff.htm = 404 and you may read the comments on the guestbook.... .....ok site. nice games - like teh jetpack one. Just needs more content.....
well the site isn't even finished. I'm not bothering keeping everything togeather right now because traffic over the last week has been minimal (i.e. forum mates mainly). The layout I'm playing with hasn't even been finalized. (you'll notice a blah blah blah on the homepage - that's just how much I don't care right now :-P) But maybe you are right about the broken links and the unfinished content, I'll get around to fixing everythign once teh layout is complete and hope PR improves. I have a very busy offline life.
I also meant the same... it is strange becuase david_sakh says that most of the links point to the homepage.
maybe some of my fellow webmasters have been pointing to teh about page for affiliate information....
I'm confused on this. If all incoming links (for instance) point to the index page then why would the internal pages have a higher PR?
maybe it had something to do with the broken link that was mentioned....I guess when a new site is full of holes problems can arise. I should have all the kinks worked out by next weekend, but...I guess I'll just have to wait until the next G update to see if this strange behavior persists.