HELP! My site seems PR1

but has many back links - why?

[modartis]

One of my sites

http://www.example.com

has PR(1) according to

[a web checking tool]

I actually have many legitimate back links into my site. Two sites I was using

http://www.example.com #1

and

http://www.example.com #2

Have a PR of 3 according to [a PR checking tool]. But these two sites just point back to example.com with a note explaining that this is the main site.

Either the PR tool is mistaken (I hope!) or perhaps I'm being penalised for some screw up. Any ideas?

[edited by: buckworks at 5:32 am (utc) on Sep. 25, 2007]
[edit reason] No URLs, please. Please use Example.com. It will never be owned. [/edit]

[callivert]

PR is updated every six months or so. The PR 1 is probably just out of date- that might be what your PR was 6 months ago. A PR update is due soon, so sit tight.

[modartis]

Thanks. That could be the answer. I totally screwed up before by having the same content exactly duplicated across three sites.

Worse than that, back links to my content didn't point into the same site. So I had effectively lowered the PR of all sites by splitting my links.

I changed everything so my incoming links now all point to my main site and also changed the content on the other two sites so it now just has an explanatory message and points to the main site. I should probably change the text on each of those two sites.