Page Rank Question

[chopin2256]

Lets say my homepage is pagerank 4. Then it distributes the pagerank to all my other pages that are just one click away, to pagerank 3, 2 clicks away pagerank 2, and so on. Lets say I have a link directory that is a pagerank 3 since it is one click away. This means deeplinks are going to be pagerank 2 or less. Obviously I am going to want to market that page if I want submissions, so now lets say that I get my link directory page to be pagerank 10. Does this really high pagerank have any affect on my whole site, or just that particular page?

Should I be concentrating on building links on my main index page to build my overall pagerank higher? Or should I just do deeplinks? Will deeplinks help my overall site pagerank or just that individual page?

[digitalghost]

Do your "individual" pages link back to your homepage? Pagerank flows like water...

[chopin2256]

Do your "individual" pages link back to you homepage? Pagerank flows like water...

I have a link to my homepage in the shared borders...so yes...all pages link to my homepage. I guess I am a little bit confused how pagerank works still within a site, and I am not too sure of how a pagerank of a particular page may impact the pagerank of the whole site.

[digitalghost]

PR flows like water. So..., your linkbacks to the homepage become tributaries, carrying the flow back to your homepage. Which is typically why homepages are the best-linked, and therefore obtain the highest PR of the pages sitewide.

Personally, I prefer deep links, and never put money phrases on the index page as the index typically has to devote so much space to the whys and whatsits.

[PatrickDeese]

I believe tha the original page rank paper suggested that a dampening factor of 15% for each link would be used in calculating the amount of page rank passed.

So if your home page has a cumulative score of 4.1, a page that was linked to from the home page would get a score of 3.485, and a page linked to from that page would get a 2.96225.

Now, more links means more PR division.

One thing that might help PR flow through the site is making sure that a sitemap was linked to from every page of the site, that will help page rank flow, not to mention the bots.