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Page at number one?

Wierd result.

         

PCInk

8:35 am on Aug 22, 2003 (gmt 0)

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I have just found a competative site with a page at number one. The page has no back links, the PR is 0, the title actually states 'Untitled Document' and the term (two words) do not appear on the page together (they do appear separately). There are 114,000 results, of which there are thousands that seem to be better optimised, particularly the title!

However, the home page of the site is PR5. Does this mean Google are weighting pages by PR and whole sites by PR? How else could it be at the first page - its not anchor text to that page (no links), its not the pages optimisation (it has none)?

Marcia

9:12 am on Aug 22, 2003 (gmt 0)

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The toolbar PR doesn't accurately reflect actual PR right away, it can take a while. The page most likely already does have PR that just isn't showing yet. It could be PR5 or PR4 if the homepage is PR5, depending on how high a PR5 the homepage is, how many links are on it, and how many clicks away that particular page is.

There are also most likely internal links with anchor text that just can't be seen yet. In moar cases 114K isn't all that competitive; without a page title it does sound like it's anchor text from within the site itself.