Getting a PR for internal pages.?

[Slapdash]

The home page of my website has a decent PR, but all of my internal pages show a PR of zip..! Any tricks to getting those internal pages boosted?

[rogerd]

First, be certain that your site is easily spiderable. Do you use plain text links to reach the interior pages? Do the interior pages have query string paramenters in the URL (if so, they will show zero PR even if they perform normally).

Do the interior pages show up in appropriate searches? If they do, it's likely that they have PR but the toolbar value hasn't been updated.

[Wizard]

And remember to get inbound links directly to your internal pages. You cannot target your main page for too many keyphrases, so obviously you need use internal pages to target more specific terms, and a significant percentage of Google traffic usually comes not from your main targetted term (usually very competitive and difficult to obtain a good position for), but for additional keyphrases on internal pages. And to let it happen, you need more than PR, you need anchor text for your internal pages, and you need it from different domains, not only yours.

[Slapdash]

<..Do the interior pages have query string paramenters in the URL..>

I could use a bit of explanation about the above statement.

Thanks for the feedback from everyone.

[whoisgregg]

The query string is everything after the "?" in a URL.

/index.php?category=2&page=17&searchenginefriendly=no

Bold is the query string.