Slashdot PR

[kila_m]

Looking at Slashdot its a PR 9 site.

Now why is this page only PR 6:

http://slashdot.org/supporters.shtml

I could have done with that page being PR 8 :(

[jamsy]

looking quickly i would say that this is due to the amount of links on that PR9 page which then sends the PR around the other pages. Of the five links i clicked they all had pr6 leading me to beleive that the page rank was being diluted through the other pages.

[Robert Charlton]

I've seen some other PR9 sites that use tracking IDs on ends of internal links... I think to see how the traffic flows... and this usually causes a large PR drop to inner pages.

Follow the Product Reviews link at the top of the CNET home page, for example, and you'll see that the PR also drops to a 6. What a waste...

[Robert Charlton]

PS: I'd love to get thoughts on how a large site can get around this problem... what they're doing and whether there's a workaround. You never know when you're liable to encounter it.

[ciml]

I think that the answer is this:

[google.com...]

Keep the links on a given page to a reasonable number (fewer than 100).