Is there an order to pagerank calculation?

Has anyone noticed a trend?

[thunderpaste]

I am wondering if anyone has seen evidence to suggest that to do the final pagerank calulations Google starts with the 1 and works toward the higher pagerank sites?

I first noticed increase rank from my internal PR3 pages going to PR4

Next my PR4 pages started flucuating between 4 and 5

I am wondering if it is working up to my index page which was and is showing a 5.

Can I hope for a PR6 now or is it too late?

[Brett_Tabke]

It is all based on the value of the inbound link and the pr passed from that. So for any month, you are gaining links, there will be an increase in your pr. In turn, that pr from your pages is passed to all the pages they link to. Most sites do see there index page have the highest pr and the internal pages that it links to gain accordingly month-to-month. That is why it is important to make sure your site is heavily linked across all your pages - share the pr.

[thunderpaste]

Thanks for the reply. It definitley answered a few questions. My original post was more focussed towards if there is a chronological order to the actual calculations.

During the update I noticed that some of my internal pages were increasing in rank on www2. It seemed as if the PR3 pages went to PR4 a few hours before some PR4 pages went to PR5.

My index page was a PR5 so I was hoping to see a bump to 6.

It didnt happen. Now I have PR5 two tiers deep. Guess I didn't break that threshold yet to get to 6.

A good way to test might be to watch a site that has a reputation for fluctuating between 8-9 or 9-10 and see exactly when during the update it changes.

Anybody know of one?

[ciml]

I haven't noticed a chronological order to the actual calculations. It seems to vary based on which server you're accessing during the update.

If you're PR5 two levels deep (link levels, not URL levels) then it seems likely that your home page is a high PR5.

[digitalghost]

There's a pretty good tool for calculating PR flow from page to page. I can sticky you the URL if you want to take a look at it. Comes in quite handy for making sure you put all the aces in their places.

[thunderpaste]

digitalghost, could you please sticky mail that url?

thanks