Page rank 4/10 only on homepage

in regards to previous thread

[dailypress]

I had posted a thread a while ago mentioning that I have a video collection website that has a PR of 4/10 on the home page. However all other pages are ranked 0/10.

Also: when I do a google search on my website.com: the actual website is listed 4-5th on the first page!

The home page only consists of links to seperate pages with one video clip only. i.e. www.mywebsite/pages/VIDEOCLIPNAME.htm

Some people suggested adding a description for each page in order for Google to find it; which I did. I added a one line title using H1 font.

Today I noticed Myth #2 on:
[sitepoint.com...]

which says>>

"Myth #2: The Google Toolbar will List Your Actual PageRank

The other issue with the toolbar has to do with the fact that sometimes the PageRank it displays is only a guess. People will often notice pages on Geocities or another free hosting provider having a high PageRank. This is because when Google hasn't spidered a page, but has spidered the root domain, the toolbar will guess a PageRank based on the value of the root domain. Therefor it's common to see pages on Geocities with a PR of 6 or 7. The PageRank does not equate in any way to a high Google listing, in fact in this case it indicates the opposite: that the page isn't even in Google. Once Google spiders the page, it will be assigned a more appropriate (and usually lower) PageRank.

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I am wondering if that is my case? Is this article a reliable source? Anyone with any suggestions or ideas?

[dailypress]

anyone with any ideas? I would appreciate your help.

[tedster]

My advice is to watch traffic most of all, and to watch actual ranking second. PR can sometimes be moderately useful information when trying to debug a real problem in those two areas -- but on its own, toolbar PR is just not real enough to be worth more than a few minutes of attention in a year.

In addition to the fact that toolbar PR data is never in real time and it's only exported 3-4 times a year, now the data itself often seems buggy, too. In short, there's nothing here but a sideshow and I'd rather spend my time in the main tent.

Got good traffic? That's what you need from Google. Traffic disappearing? Your PR number is not the place to find a fix.

[dailypress]

thanks Tedster