PAGE vs SITE

What's the difference?

[Mr_Muff]

Hello,

I have been a webmaster for several years, but I have one big disadvantage, English is not my mother (first) language...

Plz, can you explain me the difference between page and site? I have already found out that a page is: domain.com/a.html domain.com/b.html etc. Am I right?

Well, but what a site?

I even tried an english dictionary, but I still don't understand!

Thank you...

[Mardi_Gras]

Welcome to WebmasterWorld!

A site is all of the pages that are found at a domain.

For example :

Site: all pages at www.mysite.com
Page: www.mysite.com/index.htm

[zan_d]

a site is generally defined as a bunch of pages at a specific domain name example.com/a.html example.com/b.html are pages in the site of example.com

[Mr_Muff]

Ok, I see now...

And what about this, is this correct?

site: www.mysite.com/first/
page: www.mysite.com/first/index.html

And does google treat sites or just pages? Because several days ago, I have added a page tips.html on my site (PR4) and it had immediately PR3. Now, there is google's update and PR of tips.html is 0.

So, does it mean that google has PR for the site and then also for pages? I mean I have several pages on domain.com and there are cross links (at the bottom) to all those pages, and all of my pages have the same PR, but some of them contain only few of content, some of contain a lot of content. So, I guess that PR is for the site and when pages are simply on the same site then they have the same PR.

Thank you...

[Marketing Guy]

Site would be the whole lot: all the pages in www.example.com.

The quick PR you got on your new page would be your toolbar's estimate of what the PR of the page is - not the actuall PR.

Yes, each page will have it's own PR.

Usually your main page (www.example.com/index.htm) will have more PR than others, as that is where people link to.

Hope this helps - if not feel free to ask again! :)

MG

[freejung]

Mr Muff,

Welcome to WebmasterWorld!

The standard dogma is that PR is for the page, not the site.

If you have a page which is linked to from a PR4 page, expect Google to estimate that page as PR3. So it makes sense that your page appeared with an estimated PR of 3.

I had the same thing happen with several pages last update, they were estimated at PR3 before the update, then given PR0 after. I think what's going on is, before the update, your new page wasn't really indexed. The PR3 you saw was just Google's best guess. After the update, the page was indexed with PR0, which often happens with new pages. Next update, it will probably get PR3.

If you have cross links to all your pages, that spreads out the PR among those pages, so that could be why they all have the same PR.

PR is commonly agreed to be assigned to the page not the site.

[Mr_Muff]

I think I got it!

You know, it's quite difficult to follow all news when you're not a native english speaker, at least it takes a lot of time... :(((

Thanks guys for your time...