Google giving same ranking for each page?

each page has the same high PR when URL uses variables...

[AprilS]

Over the past few weeks I have been heavily reviewing competitors sites and noticed somthing odd. When a site was passing variables in the URL like "www.domain.com/somepage.php?variable1=somehthing&variable2=somethingtoo"

as apposed to something like "www.domain.com/products/prod1.html"
or
"www.domain.com/prod1.html"

Google was giving EVERY single page the same PR. For example...if their homepage had a PR 6 - each one of their product pages with URLs like described above would have a PR 5!

Has anyone else noticed this? In the past I have always read that it is difficult for search bots to index a site when a URL uses variables like that.

With most sites the PR fluctuates quite a bit... a PR 6 site may have some PR 5 pages...some PR1 pages...some PR0 pages..... but I've noticed that google seems to be rewarding sites that use a URL structure like describe above.

I've thought that perhaps Google simply is having an issue indexing those pages....but then again... each product is being indexed by google...and in return every product page gets the same high PR ranking.... I thought this may be a fluke...but also noticed it on another site I took over recently which is not related in anyway to our site.

If others have noticed this...then perhaps it is not a fluke...but in any case, it seems that google likes it and it is pushing those pages higher up in the rankings.

[bhartzer]

PR is estimated by Google, and is not actually the real PR of that page.

[AprilS]

bhartzer - I understand this...but when it comes to Google...Google seems to be giving sites' pages with URLs like I've described, better placing in the search results.

[bhartzer]

Those pages could be new, thus the estimate. And therefore they're being given the typical "new pages rank well" ranking boost. In time I would suspect that they'll drop in the rankings.