PR on Internal Pages Sames as Index?

Some of my internal pages now have same PR as Home Page

[peter andreas]

Sorry if this is astupid question but a few days ago pages (though not all) that are linked from our index page have the same page rank as the index, They don't have any more backlinks. I'm not complaining but I'm puzzled.

I noticed a lot of cloaky type pages got cleared out recently and we did reasonably well in the last update.

What is Florida every one is going on about(I know the town in the USA..)

[Marcia]

Sure, some interior pages can have the same PR as the homepage if there are other pages linking to them, either from within the site or from inbound external links.

"Florida" is what WebmasterWorld called the recent Google update. It's been that way for several months, with updates being named by letter of the alphabet like hurricanes. And the Florida update sure has been a hurracane.

[small][No such thing as a stupid question.][/quote]

[peter andreas]

Thanks, I always thought it went down by 1 for every link.

[Mohamed_E]

Welcome to WebmasterWorld, peter_andreas!

The page rank you see through the toolbar is a truncated version of a logarithmically scaled page rank, so two pages with "equal" toolbar page rank can differ substantially, while two pages of "different" toolbar page rank can be very similar.

Let us assume that the toolbar PR is truncated, rather than rounded (the argument is identical in both cases, just the numbers used for illustrations difer).

Both 6.999 and 6.001 will truncate to 6, they differ by almost a whole unit but appear "equal". On the other hand, 6.999 truncates to 6 while 7.001 truncates to 7, a whole unit more!

The logartithmic scale makes comparison of pages even more difficult. Let us assume that the base of the logs is 6 (many would argue that it may well be higher). A real page rank of 6.999 therefore represents a page with almost six times the raw rank of a page with a PR of 6.001, both of which will round to 6 on your toolbar.

With a strong internal linking structure it is quite easy to have internal pages with less than one unit of (log) PR less than the home page. So if the home page is at the top of its range the internal pages may well appear equal to it.

My home page toolbar PR varies between a high 5 and a low 6, depending on Google's mood that particular month. In both cases the major internal pages have a toolbar PR of 5. So sometimes they have the "same" PR as the home page (as they do today), sometimes they have a PR "one lower". Same underlying reality in both cases.

[AjiNIMC]

Yeah toolbar is a truncated version, even when I started my site, on the first update my first page got a pr of 2, then on the other update all my first level pages got a pr of 2.

This time my homepage is 6 and other first levels are 5 and second levels are 4.

And I donot have any external links for my internal pages, all the links are for my homepage.

Aji