Wordpress Admin Page Has Higher Pagerank Than Homepage

[vandread]

I'm a bit puzzled by this. I just realized that the Wordpress admin page on my blue widgets website is having a Pagerank of 6 while the homepage has one of 4. The strange thing about this is that the admin page is not linked from the blog at all and I doubt that anyone else would link to my site's admin page either.

Can anyone tell me how I can check only the links that point to the admin page to see if there are any and if so from where?

[tedster]

Yahoo Site Explorer offers the exploration of backlinks pointing to a specific page.

Another thought comes to mind - does your Home Page have any canonical issues [webmasterworld.com]? That could lower its potential PageRank.

[vandread]

Hi Tedster,

thanks a lot for your fast reply. I will take a look at the Site Explorer. I do not think that the site has canonical issues as I could not find reference of that in the traffic stats.

The homepage received a PR penalty once (back in 2007 or 2008, cannot remember) because of selling links. It was a PR 6 but went down to PR4 back then. Tried some reinclusions in the webmaster tools as I stopped selling links immediately but to no avail.

[tedster]

Sounds like the ding on the VISIBLE Home Page PR may still be in place. When Google first started doing that, it seemed clear that it was not affecting ranking, only lowering the chance to find link-buying customers

[ergophobe]

BTW, I would imagine the only links to your admin page are from your own pages (who else would link there?).

I would take down the "meta" section with login and that sort of stuff that appears by default so you aren't pointing links to your admin page.

[CainIV]

Yup, its probably from the meta section where admin login appears, either visibly, or hidden in code.