'Estimated' PR

This may be a silly question, buuut...

[mipapage]

Our main site has a pr of 5. It consists of eight pages, very simple stuff. I work for a web design company, we are new, and we are small. So, when we upload client templates I often just stick them in a directory under our main url.

eg. www.mainurl.com/clientxyz/template.html

These pages always get an estimated pr of three. I know that this pr isn't real. I don't link to these sections from our page, and in effect these should be totally hidden from Google, and everyone.

What I am wondering is, is this strictly a software (toolbar) issue, or am I somehow diluting my PR by doing this?

[Quinn]

What I am wondering is, is this strictly a software (toolbar) issue

Yep - toolbar guessing.

[BigDave]

Be careful. If you follow a link on your template to another site, and that site happens to post their logs, or has a publically available version of their stats progam, it might make a link to your page as a referrer and google can then find it.

Make sure that you block the directory with robots.txt.