Links were you least expect it

Links back to you from the popular job boards

[trapez]

I just noticed that one of the job boards were I have my resume posted as a PR4! Now this PR4 is not for the home page for the job board but for the page displaying my resume! So I say what gives here? I can understand an add favorite - but surley no website as a link direct to my resume on that job board. I would have expected the PR to be white PR0 or grey -not indexed. So I immediately go to the worlds most popular job board and sure enough the same thing my resume page shows a PR7. Now this is even more strange because in order for me to see my resume I must enter my user id and password thus only I know about this page. So how is this resume page being paged ranked? Is it simply inheriting the PR of its parents website home page?

Regardless of the whys, I wonder if my PR will improve from the link back to my ULR which is contained on my resume. The job board w/PR4 display my resume with a clickable link to my home page. It seems I just received a free link!

[Kandevil]

"user id and password thus only I know about this page"

There is no way for Google to be spidering this page then, so your not going to get it as a back link.

I'm assuming these are just going to inherited PR's for Googlebar purposes so you won't get any effects. Check to see the route Googlebot would have to take to get to the page, if its just not possible, no PR bonus for you.

[trapez]

-no PR bonus for you-

Right, I expect no PR bonus on the password page w/the PR7, but have never read anywhere of some type of inheritence overflow for this page to be a PR7.

However, the other job board with PR4 is not password protect and displayable in the google search. Here I expect some type of PR bonus, but then again the page displaying my resume is it truley a PR4? or is it back to this stuff I never read about inheritence and again I get no bonus?

[JayC]

Without looking at the site in question, it sounds like what's often called a "toolbar guess" of PageRank -- displayed based on the PR of the site's home page. The same thing comes up a lot about GeoCities pages that appear to have a PR7 even before they are in the index.

Your resume page would have to be indexed in order to have had its PageRank calculated. Is it in the cache? Does it have backlinks? Can you find it by searching for your name or address (or some other fairly unique string that is on the page)?