adwords pages get higher PR

[driesie]

The homepage of one of my sites has a PR3, and all other pages a PR0 (I think this is just a low PR, not penalised pages as I wouldn't know why it's penalised). Except a couple of pages where we were linking through from google adwords get a PR1. Those pages are interestingly search-result pages (but it has a PR1 for any search you do, even empty ones).

I don't understand this. Why would a search result page have a higher PR? The only reason I can think of is the adword related one.

Does Google give higher PRs to pages that it's promoting through adwords? If so, isn't that a bit unfair?

[theleveller]

Hi,

I was wondering the same thin a few months back but Google informed me that even though i had been using Ad Words for several months they are in no way attributed to the sites PR value..

Even though i would have enjoyed a little extra PR from it, i understand why its not used as im sure people would use the ad words service to completely kill off small sites that need the exposure that ad words provides.

The Leveller

[tigger]

I can't remember the posting but I’m pretty sure GG said that adwords did not affect a page’s PR

[Brett_Tabke]

Thanks Tigger - he's said it numerous times.

[driesie]

That's very interesting.
So could anybody explain how it's possible that a search result page has a higher ranking than any other page of my site.

To be more specific:

The page I'm talking about is www.mydomain.com/search.abc

But this url is never used, as it will always be in the format of www.mydomain.com/search.abc?keyword=somekeyword

This is not any link from my site, you only get to that page by filling in a keyword and submitting the search. (In our adwords we would link directy to a certain keyword search, but that is not a link from our sites).

So looking at it, I would expect to get a grey bar, not a PR1.

I don't mind this at all btw. but I'm just very interested to how this can happen, and whether this is proof google is not really doing what they say they are doing (or not doing)?

[tigger]

At this point any is possible with G, I've long given up trying to work out what’s going on with G

[PRNightmare]

Check the back-links for the specific search result page. Sometimes G will index pages that include their own AdWords ad data on the page. This is probably what is happening. This happens quite a bit with Overture.

[driesie]

There's no backlinks at all from the PR1 pages.
In fact, all but one of our backlinks from the homepage disappeared last week some time.

Send me message if you're interested in seeing the site I'm talking about it.

I know google's gone all funny lately, but this reaks of adword promotion if you ask me.