I would have added to an older thread if I could have found a relevant one quickly...too many hits on my search of the subject. I have pretty much accepted as fact that relevant content and IB links have the greatest impact on PR. Now that my site is fully indexed by Google however, I'm seeing some inconsistencies. My highest PR is 3 on my home page and several sub pages. The majority of my IB links will naturally be to the home page which also has a decent amount of content. Many of the sub pages that seem to rank the highest are ones with my OB links and little content. The good news is I can offer PR3 OB links but I'm curious to know why they rank so well when other interior pages with better content fare worse. This seems to poke holes in the argument that OB links cause a PR leak. My site map which also has lots of KW rich links doesn't do so well. Thoughts?
At the moment PR is showing the wrong results, possibly on purpose. Dont take any of it as the correct value. My whole site is showing as PR1 yet as strong as it has ever been in the SERPS. sorry not to have been more help.
PR is determined by links, nothing else. A page with many links with pass less PR to each link (i.e. it is better to have a link from a page with 10 outgoing links than 100 (assuming the PR is the same). You either have links pointing to the interior page that is ranking higher or the toolbar is reporting incorrect PR (which isn't unusual). The home page could be a 3.99 and the interior page a 4.01 but it is going to show as a 3 & 4, respectfully. Passing PR and leaking PR are not the same. Passing PR is a known, I think leaking PR isn't a known fact- at least not accross the board. I have a hosting directory that has thousands of pages with outgoing links and a fraction of incoming links. If leaking was a given or at least significant, it wouldn't have a high PR, which it does.
I was aware of the PR issues as of late so I held off asking the question until things began to settle. maybe I spoke too soon...seems fishy that pages with 6 (Google) BL's should be PR3 while another with 9 is PR2. Thanks for the thoughts! Rick