Less Important pages having higher PR than Homepage

This is interesting

[walmslei]

Dear Friends

We have started marketing our website in February 2007. We have submitted our site to approximately 260 directories out of them 40 have been approved so far. We also posted links in different forums as well as have done article submissions; every time I have posted link I have only posted our top label domain in order to get high PR on homepage. We are currently doing pay per click marketing with all major search engines and shopping portals and have lot of visitors every day. Currently our homepage having PR 1 but other pages have PR 3 instead. Do anyone here can explain why this happening.

[Quadrille]

Most of your directory and forum links will probably count for little; article submissions do virtually nothing for you (though you are doing a good turn to the article farm).

On the other hand, a handful of genuine, organic links direct to your content, from quality sites, can make a huge difference.

Having said that, don't obsess about page rank; it's rarely a useful exercise. What matters is your search engine ranking - and then unique visitors and ROI. NOT page rank.

The moral of the story is worry less about links, and invest even more time in quality, unique content. And unique means 'not shared with an article farm' ;)

[DXL]

I watched my interior pages all drop from PR5 to PR2, then they all bounced back up to PR4 while my homepage dropped down to PR2. How has this affected how my homepage or other pages ranked? Not at all, from what I've been monitoring over the last year. I myself stopped putting a lot of thought into PR value lately.