PR on homepage = 0, internal page is HIGH.!

What happened? Please help me!

[itravelvietnam]

Dear all SEO Gurus,

I have a webpage (5 months old). All of my internal pages are assigned PR but the Homepage is still Zero, I dont know what happened to it..Though my homepage has some good backlinks from Yale.edu or Nytimes..

Is my site penantized? it has been indexed last week though I Submited it months ago. It now has good ranking for some VERY compettive keywords..

Please help me out! Why Homepage PR is Zero...and whether it will affect my ranking?

Thk you so much.

Kurt

[itravelvietnam]

Hi all,

Is it too boring question? or I am in the wrong place to call help? I know that this topic may be discussed long time ago by you, gurus, but to me, a newbie, it comes to me first time...

Rgrs,

Kurt

[htdawg]

If your site is ranking well then I would not worry about it too much. If your index had page rank and now its 0 then it's probably temporary.

[Patrick Taylor]

I'm not a guru, but if you're looking at the green bar, that is not real PageRank but what people call Toolbar PR (TBPR). I would ignore it. I have a site with zero TBPR on the homepage and TBPR = 4 on other pages - sometimes, that is. Other times all is zero. It's been like this for months and seems to have no effect on ranking.

[itravelvietnam]

Thank you all for your great Replies..

it draws my concerns because, some of my link exchange partners donot accept page with homepage's PR = 0,though my inner pages PR are assigned, over 4..

And acctually, I do hope that I will have some PR on my homepage in the next update as well as it doesnot affect my PR.

Thanks,

Kurt

[Patrick Taylor]

Kurt, I'd be more concerned over the reported fact that Google doesn't encourage link exchanges between link partners who do so purely for the sake of gaining PR.

[edited by: Patrick_Taylor at 11:41 am (utc) on Jan. 16, 2007]

[ddwebguru]

hi is your site is >
1.too many links in index page - many links divided pr in a page
2.if you give links to others (partners) from your home page it may effect your pr
3.have your site is canonical issue - solve it

but pr is not a problem in ranking, make one way links with your home page

[skweb]

It has happened to me also but like many other people Google has dropped my home page from the index altogether. I am assuming that it is a glitch and in the next crawl it will include the home page and also restore the PR.

[CainIV]

Well said Patrick.

[ashear]

This could also be a canonical issue. For example if you have www.mysite.com/ and www.mysite.com/index.html, it could be possible that the primary may have lost PR to a dupe. This is not a consistent issue, however I see it from time to time. Best of luck