home page and internal pages page rank

[fraudcop]

does the increase of the home page page rank affects the internal pages linked to it?

I mean, if the home page PR increase from 4 to 5 will the internal linked pages increase too of one point?

thanks in advance for your help

[annej]

To an extent this happens but it depends on many things. For example how many links do you have to pages on your site from your home page? Too many can dilute the PR. Also do most of your pages link back to your homepage? That builds PR for your homepage. And do some of your inner pages have inbound links from quality sites? That helps. You are always passing around a tiny bit of PR with both internal links and outgoing links.

That's just a simplified version of how it works.

[minnapple]

I have seen sites that have a homepage pr of 6, have subpages that are directly linked from the homepage have various pr numbers.

PR does not seem to be an even number, you can have a high homepage 6, or a low hompeage 6.
A high 6 can make your second level pages a 5, a low 6 can make you second level pages a 4.

If the the subpage is part of a site wide navigation it usually has a higher pr because it has more internal pages linking to it.

Other times a subpage can even have a higher pr than the homepage because of external links pointing to it.

Analyzing how PR is calculated can be interesting, but for quite awhile, it has not been the defacto measurement on how a site or page will place in Google on any specific set of keyword phrases.