Does the index page get a pr boost?

link farms with high pr index pages?

[eplus]

I might be being stupid but a link farm I've been monitoring for some time has started showing up with the index page having a higher page rank than the other pages? Looking at their link structure all pages seem to have around the same number of pages linking to them so from a purely page rank sharing point of view I can't see why the index page should be any higher than the other pages?

The sub pages don't even seem to consistently show up on backwards links even though on all pages that link to the index page their is also a link to the sub pages? They are in the index as they show up on results, it's a bit confusing.

Is the index page being artificially boosted as wherever their is a link to the index page there is links to the sub pages.

If you are interested the link farm in question holds the first place for the search <snip> (a bit obscure I know, I'm always amazed at what people will pay for) on google.com. It's a giant link farm and does seem to have been hit a little by googles changing algo but still seems to get better results than it deserves in the uk. Cheap co.uk domain names has lead to a flood of this sort of spam in the uk making uk searches a bit spammy to the taste.

More interested in the index page pr than the link farm, has anyone else seen this or is their another source of pr I haven't spotted making the index that bit higher?

cheers

[edited by: Brett_Tabke at 7:11 pm (utc) on Nov. 5, 2002]
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[eplus]

sorry should really check my grammar before posting.

[ciml]

I can't claim to have measured index page PageRank vs non index page PageRank in any systematic way, but I think that if there was a difference it would have been noticed.

I would be very surprised if the difference you see isn't just that the index pages have slightly more or higher PR links to them.