Page PR vs Site PR

[planbeta]

Wonder if any one could shed any light on this hypothetical....

Presuming everything else was equal, say you have two sites each with a homepage and one other page linked to the homepage. This 'other page' is the page that you want in the SERP's.

The first site has with a decent PR on the homepage (eg. PR5 or PR6) but the other page on this site has a low or unranked PR (eg. PR1 or PR0) The second site has a homepage with a more modest PR (eg. PR3 or PR4) but the other page has also has a small amount of PR, greater than the 'other page' from the first site (eg. PR2 or PR3). Which sites 'other page' would rank higher?

Put simply, is the PR of the site more important than specific page PR - anyone have any clues?

Thanks

Chris

[More Traffic Please]

I would say that everything being identical, the second site with the "other page" that has the higher PageRank would show up better in the serps. You have to keep in mind that the first site should pass more PR on to it's "other page" with all things being equal. In the real world, the Toolbar PR very often does not reflect even the true Toolbar PR, much less the actual PageRank of the page. In addition, the more competitive the search term, the more significant PageRank becomes in the serps IMO.

The scenario I would be interested in would be this. If one index page was a major hub site with a PR 8-9 and the other index page was a PR 3. If both the inner pages had the same exact true PR and all on and off page factors were identical (in a perfect world) would the inner page of the hub site have any advantage over the inner page of the PR 3 site.

[steveb]

There is no such thing as "site PR".

[kaled]

There is no such thing as "site PR".

This may well be true, but if Google wished to do so, it would be very easy to calculate a rank for a site (domain). They could then use this along with dozens of other factors to sort search results.

My guess is that Google does maintain a site rank - I would go further and suggest they may use it to simplify (with a degree of approximation) the calculation of PR. With billions of pages to deal with, it's a reasonable bet that Google have looked for methods to speed up the calculation of PR and this might be one such method.

Having said all that, to an established site, this is irrelevant. Links and content (including titles and headings) are what it's all about. Of course, hard work and a pinch of luck help too. And knowing your enemy/competition should go without saying.

One last thought. Make sure that what you're selling is worth buying. My site has recently dropped in the SERPS for a vital phrase, neverthless, I'm seeing more traffic. Obviously, users aren't satisfied with the results above.

Kaled.

[shrirch]

I bet there is a site rank and it is the green bar next to your site in the directory. I've seen sites in the directory where the index page PR does not match the greenbar in the directory.

[planbeta]

Thanks for the replies.

The reason for asking this question was while analysing several SERP's I noticed a quite a few the of pages had little or no PR, but their homepage always seemed to have a decent PR.

Obviously I understand there is more than just PR to getting ranked, but I'm trying to figure out if the homepage PR or even some sort of overall/unseen site PR influences the SERP's?

Cheers

Chris