Now I don't tend to pay a lot of attention to PR anymore but just noticed that a new thread started less than an hour ago is showing PR of 1 on my toobar. Just wondering how this could happen. Some-one please enlighten me.
Sorry for the two posts in a row but I just saw that immediately after submitting the above post this one also has a PR1. I'm guessing it is the PR associated with the showthread.php page. Is this correct?
Seems that sometimes Google "guesses" the PR for a new page. It is really a fake PR. I had that happen to one of my directories, when people submitted their links and a new page was created, it would get a PR2. Looks cool, but it is just a fake PR that will get fixed when google does a PR update.
PR is associated with the showthread.php page. showthread makes a DB call to threadid 13229 (for this thread). So the PR is on the showthread.php page, which has been here since the beginning of time
No, this is inaccurate. The added 't=13229' makes Google treat this as an entirely different url. You can easily check that by entering 'http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php' in Google's search box. If your theory was right, then this would yield a search result, which it doesn't. Meaning that the showthread.php as such doesn't even exist as far as Google is concerned. Fryman is right about Google applying a fake PR to new pages in a high PR website.