Just a thought... I know that there are many things that are looked at when any search engine does it's rankings... but, have any of you noticed whether the amount of pages that google (for instance) has listed for your site... whether this might act to increase SERP rank. Thanks... Hope eveyone is good...
Number of indexed pages do matter. Remember that internal pages also have PR (somewhere between PR0 and PR1). The more of those pages link to home page, the higher PR the home page got. If you do backlinks check on any website, you'll see its internal pages also counted as backlinks.
Thanks U two, yeah, I've seen some calculations for pagerank that would make you think that the more pages you have, the higher the ranking... and at the same time... yup, seen very small sites with higher PR than others with greater pages.... Would think as a general rule it would help... certainly more pages with indexed content would have more keywords, potentially ranking.
We have a site that we operate that has over a 100,000 indexed pages yet the PR has been the same for over 3 years, yet 3 years ago it had no where near to the same amount of indexed pages So with this site there seems to be no correlation between PR and Indexed Pages
Total no of your index pages helps you to get more traffic.. higher the no of pages you have in index larger the keyword range you can target in SEs... This may provide you more exposure and more traffic.
I have a couple of sites with no backlinks but have homepage with PR3 and inner pages PR1 to PR3. The size of the site must contribute to PR...
When talking about site ranking, don't only focus on PR, i'm taught. Not only PR but also the number of index pages as well as backlinks contribute to site ranking in SEs. If you talk Google, your own internal pages have the same theme with the rest, so the more pages the site has, higher rank it gets for its theme/keywords. It's none of my theory but long-proven SEO. And, no PageRank isn't everything. There're PR2 PR1 sites that rank #1 for competitive keywords. I do check lots of high ranking sites, only to find out their PR is lower than mine.
Cool point brandnewx... I notice PR, but try not to think of it as an end-all-be-all... but it does stare us in the face on the toolbar... I'm glad to hear that some sites/pages with a lower pr might rank more highly with google for certain competative terms. I've wondered just how much the toolbar PR correlates with actual ranking on SERPs.
Well I also think the same I think that Google really does give some amount importance to your number of page in your website.
your website can be in the top results of search engine even if you have PR 0. If you have pages with great content, with key phrases repeating more times in the same page, when someone will search for that phrase, can find your website on the first position in the search engine.
But you have to remember that your PR can increase from any type of links related or non-related but rankings fully depend on related links.