I have a site I'm working on that I inherited with a PR 1. A few weeks after I got it (last PR update) it went up to a measily PR 2. Since then we've gotten a lot of backlinks, and I'm certain its going to be a PR 4 or 5 next PR update, if not higher. That's the known. Here's the unknown: The homepage is currently a PR 2. However, my resources page is a PR 4. I don't get it? All my links are coming to the homepage (just the domain name). Is there some sort of homepage penalty I might be under? I have lots of sites with a nice PR homepage and some interior pages with lower PR, which is generally the norm. Anyone ever heard of an interior page higher than the homepage??? Even when there's been no effort for links to that interior page and there are links to the homepage??? Maybe the PR toolbar is showing the result of the link building for the interior page and just not showing that yet for the homepage??? Thoughts???
That does seem a little odd, looking forward to what some of the gurus here think Of course, who really knows what goes on inside the G-plex!
I have seen a few questions like this recently. I think you'll find that by the next update, your home page will be updated. I really wouldn't worry about this. Google does glitch some times.
google DOES glitch sometimes usually its updated fast. Without an URL, we cannot check anything for sure though, because I really think the most obvious reason would be a backlink to an internal site. You never know, maybe someone on the internet really did place a link to that internal page!
Ephricon, I'm in the same boat as you. See... ResaleBroker.com I've checked around a lot and couldn't come up with an answer. Personally, I'm not worried about it right now. My site is clean as a whistle. Now if things don't change on the next update, well that's another story.
Mine is the same way. My home page is a PR 2 but my contact and about pages are PR 3's with no other sites linking to them (my about page has some now, but didn't at the time of the update). http://www.mattmdesign.com
You will find that it only seems like this because the Toolbar PR is out of sync with the 'PR value' used in the algorithm. For example the internal page /arizona/arizona-mobile-home has over 250 inbound links but a Toolbar PR of zero. The 'PR value' used in the search algo will be between 4 and 5 and that is what being passed to other internal pages linked off the page. It is difficult to remember sometimes that the Toolbar PR is only a crude estimate of the PR value and is always out of date anyway. - Michael
I have the same problem. Many old pages which had PR before last update didn't get PR boost, but some internal pages updated.