Losing Pr

Is this a way to lose pr?

[knoir]

Hello again. Let me say it again...i love this forum.

Anyway, My index page has a PR of 5. All the other pages in the site also had a pr of 5. There were like 12 pages...all with a pr of five.

I decided to add more pages to my site. I broke down each of those 12 pages and was able to create many more pages. about 40 pages. All of those pages are interlinked. They are all accessible from the main index page.

Will my action hurt my pr? should i revert and use my old design of 12 pages?

The last thing i want to do is lose PR and rankings.

What do you guys think?

[funandgames]

Every new page that I add and link to from the home page gets the same PR as the home page. If it isn't linked from the home page it gets a lower PR.

[doc_z]

Will my action hurt my pr?

Be adding new pages you changed the distribution of you PR. Increasing the number of pages leads to a decrease of PR for the internal pages

The last thing i want to do is lose PR and rankings.

Of course, the changes affect your ranking. PR for the internal pages is decreased, but anchor text is added. Also, be splitting up your pages you changed the content and therefore the ranking.

should i revert and use my old design of 12 pages?

What is the best for the user?

Every new page that I add and link to from the home page gets the same PR as the home page. If it isn't linked from the home page it gets a lower PR.

This isn't a general rule.

[steveb]

knoir, your domain will have approximately the total PR for those group of pages, but it will be spread out differently. You might have 40 PR4 pages instead of twelve PR5 pages. This gives you the ability to focus on more specific topics, but you won't be able to do as well on more competive searches. It's a trade-off... you likely will get more rankings, but you might drop some places for some terms.

In general though, more pages is better.

[superpower]

As long as you stick to established SEO basics, the more pages the better. Although PR is important-- in my opinion it is much more important to have more and better targeted pages (specific).