Distribute page rank throughout a site

[member22]

How do you distribute page rank throughout your website ? so that you home page has for ex a 5 then you sub page first level a 4 and so on...

Thank you,

[Receptional Andy]

You seem to be talking about distributing pagerank in an hierarchical way. My advice is to forget about the numbers you see in the toolbar - they're not at all accurate and are of little use. You should not base decisions related to pagerank on those numbers.

Simply put, you give a page more pagerank by linking to it more frequently. If you organise your internal links into a pyramid structure then you will naturally give category pages more internal pagerank than pages within this categories. E.g.

Home >> Category (each category linked sitewide, links to current subcategories and back to home) >> Subcategory (linked from the current higher category, links to parent category) >> Page (linked from the subcategory, links to parent category).

The picture becomes more complex, because it is external links that provide your site with pagerank to distribute. So, if it's only the homepage that gets links, and you're only links internally are from your hierarchical links, then distribution will be even. but if others pages get their own external links, you won't have even distribution.

The other question is why you would want a totally even distribution? Primarily, the goal is to ensure pages have enough juice to appear for the keywords and phrases you target. Even distribution based on a hierarchy is only a good starting point.

[mohit115]

I totally agree with Andy. Toolbar page ranks are often months behind, and the only way of real judgment is finding yourself appearing on google organic searches.

[mack]

I think it I tite to totally forget about that little green bar in the Google toolbar and start looking at the link flow through your site from an objective point of view. A properly organised site structure alone should take care of this. For example homepage links to sections, those sections then lead to topical content.

This can be thrown on its head by one simple deep link to one of your content pages. I have seen sites where some internel pages have more pr than the homepage.

Mack.