Why is my internal PageRank higher than Home Page?

[myfunzrlo]

I am puzzled. I have a site I have been working hard to optimize both on page and off. I have acquired a fair amount of links. About a thousan last time I looked.
I was excited the other day to find that I had gone from pr0 to pr2 on my homepage. I was quite elated and later started checking other pages. What puzzles me is that the other pages are ranked pr3, and that includes the main page on my link directory.
I am not complaining, just mystified. I submitted to many directories and the links and anchor text were directed to my home page.
Isn't this kind of odd? Any ideas or imput?
The keywords for this site are all highly competitive and pretty equal(it's a long story)so I don't think it is that.

Myfunzrlo

[Stefan]

Hard to say - usually you would expect that to be the case if you had more inbounds to the inner pages than the /index.

One thing that comes to mind: Canonical problems often show up first on the home page, and are noticed by a strange PR - are all your new links definitely going to only one URL version of the domain.org/index? Do you have mod_rewrite 301 stuff happening, and using absolute links or a base tag?

<Added>Sorry, man, didn't notice it was your first post - welcome to WW</Added>

[edited by: Stefan at 2:53 am (utc) on July 31, 2006]

[sandpetra]

I had a page rank 6 page within a pr 5 site that was "rectified" in the following update.

Although - it's worth mentioning that in the recent update it was only internal pages that were reassigned PR - not home pages.

You can see this everwhere.

[reseller]

myfunzrlo

Another possibility mightbe that you have some outbound links on your homepage diluting its PR!

[Hissingsid]

and/or:

Your own link structure focuses PR on certain pages which are also linked to by external pages. There is an article on how to use site structure to boost a pages PR. <snip> Perhaps you have accidentally done just that.

Sid

[edited by: engine at 2:35 pm (utc) on July 31, 2006]
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[steveb]

This is common with new sites these days. Forget about it. It will correct itself on the second update of the pages.

[trinorthlighting]

I agree with steve, do not worry much at all about that green bar.

[jaffstar]

I have a 100% of all ibl point to the homepage, yet its pr 1, inner pages are pr-4-6.

Lots of recip linking on that site, its a test site :) Must be a penalty.

[nippi]

issues where i;ve seen this

[www...] and non www version both indexed in google, and you've got some links to www and some not.

root and index.html both in index, as random content on home page.

Youve stuffed up home page html, two head tags or something.

penalty for something else.

bad linking structure.

[Bewenched]

We did have our site doing a 301 to the www version of our site and found that so many of our customers actually link to our site without the www since it is less to type. Even Alexa search engine links without the www so we could be missing valuable links by doing a site either way.

I'd love to hear some google response on this.