Is this new?

PageRank of sub page exceeds domain PageRank

[SlyOldDog]

Today I noticed that a subdirectory in my site has PageRank 5 whereas the home (index) page is PageRank 3.

Conventional wisdom here is that this is not possible. Has anyone else seen this?

[andreasfriedrich]

No, itīs definitely not new. PR is a documentīs property.

Conventional wisdom here is that this is not possible

No, conventional wisdom here is that Pagerank is on a page-by-page basis.

just one thread [webmasterworld.com]

Andreas

[Mohamed_E]

Let me give a specific example (no URLs!) of how this can occur.

There is a personal hiking site (not mine) that has a few links to its index page. One of the internal pages was, for many years, the only online source for an important list of peaks. That internal page got many, many more links than the index page. Hence higher PR.

That is unusual, but as the example shows, can occur.

[rcjordan]

I have one site with the following:

domain.com = pr6
domain.com/level2 = pr4
domain.com/level2/level3 = pr6

[bird]

It's PageRank, not SiteRank.
The page with the highest PageRank on my site is two directory levels below the home page. Of course, it also has the most inbound links.

[Air]

I have a couple of sites where internal pages have PR6 and root has lower PR, so I think it's probably quite common.

[edited by: Air at 9:27 pm (utc) on Sep. 28, 2002]

[SlyOldDog]

Yes, but I have never before seen a subpage EXCEEDING the index page. This is the point.

Until now Google awarded the index page a PageRank equal to or greater than the highest ranking page on the site. i.e. Pagerank is "Page" rank except in the case of the index page.

This is the first time I have seen an index page with a lower pagerank than another file on the site

[SlyOldDog]

Air

Thanks - I posted the same time as you.

[GoogleGuy]

Hang out a little more SlyOldDog--it's not too rare. All the original PageRank papers describe the math for things on a page-level basis.