After recent PR update, I am experiencing surprising pageranks on my blog. I have nearly 500 odd single pages on my blog. My main homepage went from 0 to 4 (i expected atleast 5 seeing the backlinks) and many single pages now most of the pages too have pr4..some pr3.. But surprsing factor is 3-4 single pages have pr6 and 10-12 (maybe more, I have only checked afew pages) have pr5.... On checking the backlinks of these pages...I see they very few or none backlinking to them and still having PR 6...what a surprise How does that happen???
Those pages backlinks have either high pageranks or bleed out pagerank to only a few other sites via that page. This is not uncommon and is actually a good way to find your most popular webpages. People who use massive link exchanges will always have a high homepage pr only since thats where all the inbound links go to, none are natural.
No, one of my PR6 page does not have a any backlinks...other than my internal links on same domain... and same goes for other PR5 pages too... I add a blog post everyday religiously which is completely fresh content and I have been doing for last 6 months...some posts get a few backlinks and some dont.... Due to this I was expecting at least pr5 for my home page...but it got just pr4.. and one article that I had written (just 170 word article) in August got PR6...and it does not have any backlinks...
I have about 5500 pages indexed in google...but pure content posts are around 450... I have a translator plugin for 13 languages that creates a translated page and caches it....even these pages have PR4....I am not sure if anyone has ever read those or not forget the backlinks... I would not be surprised if it was one off page that has high PR...here I am talking about more than hundred that have pr4, pr5, or 6...and I have checked only a few pages till now..
I have two sites that also went from PR0 to PR4 and after reading your experience I'm concerned that the new PR may be a glitch in the algorithm that may get fixed!
Hmmm...I am sure it may be a glitch...I have searched my internal pages...and not 1 but 5 of my pages are PR6.....7 are PR5 and hundreds are PR4.... Take that !!!
I also had a few inner pages that have higher PR than homepage after this upgrade, but that was mainly due to BLs from .edu sites, at least I thought.
Nows the time to sell some links to that article (also let the customer know that the PR may change at anytime) while keeping your homepage intact
I am really tempted to do that...but seeing Big "G"s reaction to paid links I am really afraid to do that..... One question...if I sell links internally and come in Gs net...will the PR be reduced for all pages on that domain or only to that one page?
You have none you know of, try making a Google Webmasters Central account and waiting a few weeks, that look at your incoming links.
For me, thankfully my PR has not dropped. I moved from a PR4 blog spot to a custom domain - went to PR0. But , in this Google update, my PR4 rank has been restored. I did not see any paid links - but, I admit have written some paid reviews (max 8)..Happy Happy!!
google does not show all the backlinks you have and the number of backlinks are not the only factor affect your PR. I guess there are quite some links from del to your blog.
I have a lot of backlinks. But it seems Google cannot find them. Or maybe they are all nofollow links. Unfortunately, my PageRank has dropped from 3 to 2 for main page, and from 3 to 1 on subpages. Linking Strategy is VERY important, atleast for good PR.