Same PR on ALL Pages

How is this possible

[wfernley]

Yesterday I ran into two websites that had this.

The homepage has a PR 4 page and so do all the sub-pages. They do not have inbound links reported by Google and only 2 or 3 from MSN. How can a) they get PR b) spread it through their site?

They were not using Frames and the websites are only 4 months old.

I was hoping to get clarification on this. Is there something wrong with my PR toolbar? Is there a way of faking PR to users? Is there a way to report your homepage PR on all your other sub pages?

Thanks in advance for your help!

Wes

[BeeDeeDubbleU]

Google does not report all inbound links. They probably do actually have inbounds that are giving them PR4.

[wfernley]

MSN only shows 2 links. Both are from low PR pages. They go to their homepage as well.

I just find it odd that all sub pages have the same PR as the homepage.

The othe site I noticed this on was a brand new site, only about 4 months old. It had a PR 4 and all the sub pages did as well. How did they get indexed and get a high PR within 4 months?

[tedster]

With the Big Daddy rollout, PR was not calculated to the same scale that we were previously accustomed to -- I asked Matt Cutts about this in person at PubCon and he confirmed. Toolbar PR is now even less useful than before -- but at some point it still may revert to the old scaling, but with new crawl data.

It's very intensive to calculate PR ao I would rather see a more complete indexing first, and I'm pretty sure Google would, too. What good is a PR calculation when a big chunk of pages are missing? That would roll throughout all the iterations.

[edited by: tedster at 4:31 pm (utc) on April 26, 2006]

[Dayo_UK]

Yes, what Tedster says seems to be the case - and PR is definetly a bit screwy at the moment - although it is the first time it looks correct for me for some sites for a while - so I hope we dont go back to the old method.

Also, it was possible to fake PR as mentioned in your first post - however, looking at the site that was (in)famous for doing this it looks like it no longer works.

For a relatively small site though which is perhaps only one level deep (all pages linked from the homepage) then the same TBPR on all pages is not impossible.

Also add into the equation that only certain pages were updated at the last PR update - then anything is possible. (Eg the internal pages may have updated PR while the homepage still has old PR - which when updated may become a 5)

[F_Rose]

Google is only ranking our home page for our main keywords and what's interesting is,all of our keyword drop in PR at once, and vice versa if I see an increase it would be on all keywords at once. Is this Google's problem or is thier something I can do to avoid this?

[wfernley]

That does make sense.

I guess I should just start ignoring PR for the time being.

[benallos]

Well I don't know about that PR thing coz my site is PR 4 in the Google Toolbar indicator but when I search my own site domain.com in the search, it says "Sorry, no information is available for the URL domain.com". This is 2 months already. What is happening to google right now.

[talismon]

One of my sites is showing index at PR2 and interior pages and PR4 - talk about screwy! anyone seeing anything similar? I wonder what would cause this? All IBL's on our site go the index page.

[abates]

I have some internal pages with PR5, yet all the pages linking to them are PR4 and below. Toolbar PR is screwed. :)