PageRank for the homepage and subpages are the same

[wakao]

Hi, everyone.

This my first post here and before this I've read quite a number of posts that helped a great deal with the seo of my site. Thank you for all the invaluable advise.

You know previously my homepage had a rather stable PR of 6 but recently it was dropped to 5. Weird thing is, although the homepage PR dropped, the PR for the second tier pages remained 5.

I read some posts here saying that the PR for subpages should be 1 point less than the homepage. But how come my site has the same pagerank for both homepage and subpages? Anyone knows what's going on?

[Marcia]

Welcome to the board, wakao, glad you've found us helpful.

No, the one number down on the toolbar is not automatic for interior pages, it's very normal in some cases. Toolbar PR is not exact - something like 5.10 and 5.90 wouldn't be the same at all but they'd still show as a PR5 on the toolbar.

You may have been a low borderline PR6 - like 6.05, and slipped a little to 5.95 (rough figures to illustrate) but there would still be enough to confer the PR5 to your sub-pages. That's how you can roughly estimate whether a page is high or low within the rounded figure range that the toolbar shows. When sub-pages are a point less it generally indicates a low end PR for the linking page.

[pshea]

wakao, do you link very well internally within your site, and is it a mid- to large site? It could be that your own links are delivering this equi-PR. That is the case with my sites. Explain more about your links, external and internal. There is no rule of which I am aware about internal pages receiving an automatic -1 PR. If you have a page on your site that is wildly popular, then it could achieve a higher PR than the root.

How does the water feel, now that you've stuck your toes in Lake WebmasterWorld?

[wakao]

Thank you for the welcome and the quick response.

Marcia, I think you're right with my situation. It may be that I had a marginal PR6 before I made some changes to my site and then just fell from that PR6 roof.

When sub-pages are a point less it generally indicates a low end PR for the linking page

I can't quite follow you on that. Can you elaborate on it?

pshea, there are 400+ pages in my site and I previously had the same set of links placed at the bottom of each page. I read somewhere about "site themes" warning about cross linking pages that are not topic-related, so I removed the links from pages that I considered important and left those only on the less important ones. Maybe that's the reason for the PR drop of my homepage, though I still have a link pointing to the homepage on every other pages?

Thanks again for your help.

[clarksc3]

I do not mean to get off the subject, but I have a quick question. How can you see the PR with the decimal? i.e. PR 5.95 or PR 6.05? Or are you just giving an example of what could be happening behind the scenes.

Thank you.

[turk182]

clarksc3

This thread about "decimal" PR [webmasterworld.com] may help you