Pagerank on main page but nowhere else?

[au_sammy]

Hello,

The PR on my new website was recently updated so it now has PR. However, it doesn't have PR for any other page except the initial index page.

I was wondering if anyone can tell me if this will update at some stage? All the pages are linked back to the main page via the header, and it goes down 2 levels in depth.
i.e.
(index links to page 2 --> page 2 links to page 3 --> page 3)

Thanks,

Sam.

[inogen]

I've had exactly the same trouble!

Got a PR5 for the index page, and nothing for the rest for the rest of the site...

[hungry4seo]

Hello,
I had the same problem with my PR not making it to other pages of my site, and I got some great advice from a veteran seo'r that instructed me to create a 2nd back link to the home / index page. Basically all of your site's pages should have two links on them that return you to your home page.
It worked for me, I hope it works for you.

Take care & Good luck,
Hungry4seo

[inogen]

I've done what choo suggested. In fact I've replaced an outbound link to another site which was on every page ( a link to the web site designers! ) with a link back to the index page.

I did it this morning. about 10 hours ago. No difference yet!

I do fail to see the logic though. I don't see how linking back the index page would effect a page's rank anyway, not to mention it having to be linked back twice!

Will let you know if it works.

[hungry4seo]

I agree with you on the screwed up logic of it, but I guess the robots need to see two backwards links to the index from all of the pages that you want to displace the PR to.
It worked for me, and I was real happy to finally fix the problem. I hope it can help you from chasing your tail for much longer.

[inogen]

I've never had the trouble before though. I've had sites where some pages get less or no PR, but some pages always get something. I always assumed this was to do with slightly lopsided internal linking.

I've always linked once back the index page with the logo. Never twice.

This is the first time I've seen a site get a decent PR, and then none of the other pages get anything. Even pages that are linked in context from the index page.

Still no change :¬[

[coosblues]

Assuming your logic is correct, you won't see any difference in PR until the next Pr update. Since PR just updated I wouldn't expect any changes for quite some time.

[inogen]

Aye, I know.

To be honest, I'm not bothered about the PR indicator, just the fact that I think the lack of PR (which should be updated a lot more frequently than the green bit) is not doing any favours for my SERPS.

In fact my SERPS are terrible for all pages (all 90 of them). Including my index page! with a PR of 5.

[mn1dbp]

Similar thing occurs on one of my new sites - all internal pages have a white zero PR bar.

I assumed that it would update when there next is a PR update.

However i have noticed that one or two internal pages that have links from other external sites do have PR showing.

[inogen]

That's a bit scary.

So now you need all the internal pages to have external links to them?

Perhaps we'll see at the next update.

[maluka]

Newbie alert. I finally decided to see if my site has a page rank and a few days ago it did - 4.

Then I discovered that Google is not listing my articles as archives as they always have, just listing the URL and though there's a blurb about the article, a click takes it to the one that's current.

Yesterday I checked again and saw the rank differed on each archived article, from 2 to 4. It's just a one page site.

Today I did the same thing and I have 0 page rank on all I checked out.

I checked my stats which sometimes has more Google crawls than visitors, and see they haven't been there at all. They haven't missed a day in 1 1/2 years and frankly, I'm baffled.

Any thoughts?

I don't get it.

[inogen]

That sounds like you've lost some backlinks to me.

Just a shot in the dark (as usual) but if you lose PR, it's usually do do with people stopping linking to the site.

[maluka]

I don't know anything about back or was it backward links? Don't laugh. I've been doing more checking and found that after March 10, it all changed.

The older stuff has page ranks. I was only looking at the second half of this month when I came up with nothing, however they're all there up until March 10.

I didn't lose any links.

The thing is I could care less about PR, but I don't like the fact that if I type in my name, there it is only saying MAIN instead of View Archives.

Aiiiiiiiiyiiiii.... I'm almost bald, clumps of hair jut through my fingers.

Thanks for the suggestions.

[Harry]

I'm not an authority on Page Rank, but you guys are not patient enough. I've noticed that it takes about three months before a page get any ranking, even a popular one. It's all about waiting.

On my site, several pages have but one single link leading to them. They still have some page rank, after a few months.

No need to try to figure out something so simple.

[mn1dbp]

I tend to agree with you Harry and normally would not be worried about the no show of PR for internal pages on a recent site.

But the fact that a few internal pages that have external links have PR showing and those that are only linked to internally don't even though they were all put live at the same time was a little strange.

I have however since looked back at site development and realised that i didn't put the site map live until a couple of weeks later so Google would not have found internal pages until then (site uses javascript navigation). So i expect PR to show when Google next updates it.

Each internal page must have decent PR as they all get a fresh tag everyother day.