Hello, As written in the title, there is something I don't understand : Sometimes, I go to some directories with PR5 for instance and all the following pages are PR0. Has someone an explanation for that ? I tell you before someone asks the question : There are no rel="nofollow" in the source. So why such a PR fall ?
Probably the only links the site has are to the homepage. And since the other pages are hardly interesting, google isn't bothering about spidering them (do check whether they are indexed)
I'm not sure if everyone will agree with me on this, but... Most links to a website are to the home page. And, since PR is driven by links and is page specific not website specific, the PR is given to the page with the links or the home page. That is not to say that other pages in a website won't get good PR, if they have lots of links to them from other websites they will.
Yes, I admit. But, let's suppose a directory's home page PR5. for instance www.mysiteabouttravel.com. OK ? this site has folfers (america, europ, asia, etc) Because the home page gives PR, these folfers should have had a PR4, 3, even 2. But they often have PR0. Why ?
I'm no expert, but I have an idea. Maybe before the last PR update, the site was a PR0. The links to the homepage made the site homepage a PR5 at the last update. For the PR to then spread to the rest of the site from the homepage, turning them into PR4s, PR3s etc, you have to wait to the next PR update. Can anyone back this up or shoot it down? Of course, I am talking about toolbar PR here. Which is not necessarily anything to do with actual PR known only by Google. Some of the inner pages of this site may actually have higher pagerank with Google, but the toolbar just has not updated to reflect this yet.
Where are you checking PR? I see a PR 0 in google toolbar. Plus a page not found message in IE... Bye
My website has very few inbound links (qualiy links only 1 0r 2 and links from unrelated websites 5 with sitewide links). I still don't understand why my website maintained high PR (4). I do get 100% organic traffic from google/msn/yahoo. Most of my website is also not probably well designed. PR algorithm is still a black box with so many secrets unearthed.
I have to add one more point though. My website PR grew from 2 to 4 over a period of 16 months. It has PR 4 for a long time now.
Well i can give a clear reason for this. Well the directories in which you see a PR on the homepage are generally of many kinds - 1) They were created for the purpose of directories. For example I created a directory and worked on it. Collected backlinks etc. So by the next PR update the homepage will get some PR and so will some internal pages too. 2) I have a site which is PR5. I am planning to shut it down. Now, the domain name is crap and no one is going to buy. SO the best option i have is to start a directory on it. The directory which i crate like this will have a PR on homepage but none of the internal pages. 3) I buy a High PR domain and install a directory on it. And call it a PRx directory. Such a directory will also have a PR on homepage but no internal pages will be indexed also Such directories are useless as the backlinks will fall by next update and so the PR too and mostly you will also see that such directories are not indexed properly.