Front page have decentpage rank but categories have zero

pagerank for categories and pages

[toybear]

In several of my sites, all on shared hosting/Linux/Apache i get a decent rank on the entry url, but not on any of the Categories/sub pages.

This applies to both web sites with static html pages and to web sites with dynamic content.

The sub pages are being indexed and are available through most of the search engines and are bringing traffic to the sites. But neighter the categories nor the sub pages do have any pagerank showing in the google tool bar.

Anyone who knows what might be causing this and a possible solution?

Server side or just through mod rewrite/htaacces or other solutions?

[jdMorgan]

toybear,

Welcome to WebmasterWorld [webmasterworld.com]!

A few possibilities:

The google toolbar database has not been updated.

The 'real' PR database from which the toolbar PR is derived has not been updated.

Toolbar PR of 4 or less on 'home' page leads to infrequent indexing/updating of URLs and PR on site.

Non-optimal URL redirection methods used.

Duplicate content across multiple domains.

Don't expect the Google toolbar to update frequently or quickly; It might take 90 days before it shows the PR that your pages have today. It's not real-time.

Pages with a PR of 4 or less don't have much PR to pass on. As a result, they are not spidered frequently and changes are not picked up quickly. Pages linked only from a PR<=4 page won't usually get spidered frequently.

You didn't say how you accomplished search-engine-friendly URLs on your dynamic sites, so I can't comment further on that.

If your content appears across multiple domains, pages in each of those domains will have separate PR, and you may not be looking at the domain that Google liked best. This condition may persist until Google figures out the duplication and removes all but one copy of each page.

This list was just off the top of my head and is non-inclusive. If you wish to discuss Google behaviour rather than Apache server technology, please post to the Google forum - You will likely get more and better advice there.

Jim