Sites receiving the hosting company PR

[Jon_King]

I have been examining a few odd high-ranking pages and I can only attribute their high PR because the site is seen as a 'page' of the hosting company.

How is that some hosting companies appear to pass PR to the sites they host?

[MarkHutch]

My guess is the hosting company has a page where they list the domains of their customers. That might be it.

[Mohamed_E]

I suspect that it is a "guessed" PR before Google knows anything about the site. Those guessed PRs go down dramatically when Google discovers that the actual site has few incoming links. When I first started a subsidiary geocities site it showed a PR of 6, which went down drastically after spidering.

I seem to recall that this question used to come up quite regularly in the past, have not seen it recently.

[experienced]

if the hosting company site and the customers of the company are hosted on the same server, i believe there might be a problem for all of those client having a link on that our happy clients page. According to the new algo if a number of sites are listed on thesame server and with a bit same concept google may bann those sites from the GSERP.

any expert comments required here

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[experienced]

untill unless google will not discover those links, NO PROBLEM, but when it comes to google knowledge i suspect, There will be nothing to passssss.

Be safe

Thanks
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[sem4u]

I think a lot of Geocities sites were PR7 but it is doubtful that the benefit was passed on....or everyone would have been at it! :)