PR to Domain name, but not to pages

The Domain have a PR, but the pages don't

[lowen]

My homepage domain have a PR2 All pages seem to have PR0.
Scenario :
When you enter a domainname in a browser, you normally would get ie. default.asp. The browser normally just show the domainname.

Then default.asp should have the PR2 and links from this page would cary the PR2 to the pages from these links or what?

Can a domainname really have a PR and not the pages?

[Marcia]

>>links from this page would cary the PR2 to the pages from these links or what?

Not necessarily. In the first place, links from a PR2 page will give very little page rank; it could be less than PR1 for the other pages. How many are there going off the main page, and are the interior pages linked to each other?

>>Can a domainname really have a PR and not the pages?

Sure, the index page can show PR while the interior pages don't show any. Are they JS links or regular image or text links?

It's not unusual for there to be a time gap, either. Have there been more links added so that the index page will be having higher than a PR2? And how long has the site been up altogether?

[BergtheRed]

it would be the page google is actually ranking that has the PR. any page it links to should "in theory" have some of that PR carried through ...

[shady]

Hi Lowen

How long has the main page had PR2?
Are the other pages PR0 (white bar) or Unranked (grey bar).
When were the "sub-pages" created?

[lowen]

Hi Marcia, BergtheRed and shady!

All links are regular links. All pages have a white bar. You can see my homepage in my userprofile. The site is almost an year old now. You can see in the source code, when the pages were created and the date for the last update. Even the indexpage don't seem to have a PR. When you write "default.asp" after the domainname, the bar turn only white.
The pages are updated frequently.
I have 2 domains, the other domain(5 or 6 years of age) has the same problem.

Thanks for your reply's

Kind Regards

Lowen

[deej098]

Earlier this year, I swapped domains for my website and experienced a similar problem. The PR from the old domain transfered quick enough over to the new index.html page on the new domain, but the other internal pages located on the new domain took many months (approx 6 months) before the PR had properly filtered throughout the new pages.
I know it is not exactly the same problem you are having but a little patience paid off in my case.

[lowen]

Hi deej098!

This is the scenario:
[my...] homepage/ = PR2
[my...] homepage/default.asp =PR0

I simply don't understand it :-((

Kind Regards

Lowen

[lowen]

Hi!

I've just found out about something really weird about Google.
The start file in the web root has to be named index.htm or index.html to get a PR!
Default.asp or even index.asp will not get a PR!

Any idea or explanation anyone?

Kind Regards

Lowen

[deej098]

Lowen, I went to your profile to see what your website was so that I could have a look at the code myself but your url was not listed. Also where did you hear about that Google requirement where the root file has to be either an index.html or index.htm to get PR?

[hobbnet]

Default.asp or even index.asp will not get a PR!

That is totally untrue. If you have some .asp pages without PR it is not because Google refuses to assign them PR, it is because of something else.

I have MANY .asp pages with PR, including homepages.

[Stefan]

Wrt Lowen's homepage not appearing in his profile: new users can't post them, (last I heard, anyway).

[superscript]

Distribution of PR depends on the link structure of the site - but with high ranking sites the algo tends to produce an index page with a PR (+1) over the rest of the site.

[steveb]

The first post says "normally would get ie. default.asp" which makes this similar to another recent thread, probably. If the answer isn't that you "always" get the same default page, then we don't have anything to talk about really. If there are several default.* or index.* pages to choose from with duplicate content, then Googlebot is likely getting confused.

[lowen]

Hi!

I proberbly have explained it all wrong. The startpage is default.asp. Then when you press a button(link), you wil go to default_1.asp. That is, if you choose to stay in the default language(Danish). If you choose ie. english (press the english flag), you will go to default_2.asp(and so on). The system handles 8 languages.

The system(site) do not imploy frames nor tables, there are plenty of meta codes(each language has it's own) and it's validated HTML 4.01 and validated CSS 2.
The system do extremely well in Google searches, and I just found it a bit strange, this PR phenomenon.

But never mind, I have chosen to write directly to Google about it. So I'll think I just have to sit tight and wait for the answer.

Thank you all for your time and effort :-))

Kind Regards

Lowen

[steveb]

It's not strange at all that pages linked from a PR2 page are PR0. A drop of two notches is common. A drop of one notch is more common, but two notches is not strange at all.