Interesting PR result

PR 5 with only 1 other inbound...

[LostJames]

ran into a site by accident.
PR 5 site.
when checked backwards links, 14 other pages within the site + 1 external site (PR 4) came up.
Most of those 14 internal pages have PR of 0, only 3 pages show PR 5 on them.

Now, how is that possible?

[ciml]

PageRank is based not on how many links you have from other pages, but how much PageRank those links transfer to you. This is was one of the original features; I recommend "The Anatomy of a Hypertextual Search Engine" by Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page.

I've seen new sites get in Google with PR8 after only a month, new pages even with PR10.

[ThomasB]

I've seen new sites get in Google with PR8 after only a month, new pages even with PR10.

Also PR 9 sites seen.
But the thing is, that it happens having a pr5 if you get just 1 link from a pr 5 site linking to you.
It's also possible that lots of PR 3 sites are linking to this site which could result in a pr 5.

[trillianjedi]

You're probably just checking the backlinks to one page.

Google works with pages, not domains. The site could well have external links to sub-pages which you haven't seen. The PR from those is then transferred to the homepage via the sites navigational structure.

TJ