PageRank Question

[vampke]

Hi guys,

Since a few days I actually have a PR>0. Imagine my happiness!

I understand that the SERPS are very dependant on incoming links with high PR, but how do you get a high PR yourself?
I found on this site the formula
PR(A) = (1-d) + d ( PR(T1)/C(T1) + ... + PR(Tn)/C(Tn) )
where A : page I want to compute page rank of
PR(A) : page rank of A
T1, T2... Tn : pages that point to A
C(T1) : Number of outgoing links of T1
d = 0.85

is this still correct?

The thing I don't understand is that my highest PR page is not the page that has the links from outside to it (my index-page) but my products page, which doesn't have direct incoming links to it.

Anyone any ideas how this works?

Cheers,

vampke

[fathom]

You may have attracted a penalty on your mainpage that isn't being passed to lower pages. If you have anything shady there remove it and check any outbound links. If PR0 cut & paste their url into Google and see if they appear, if not dump the link.

Also check your toolbar version - if not the most recent older ones tend to show anomalies.

[vampke]

hey fathom,

thanks for taking the time to reply.

However, there is nothing 'shady' on the index page. I only have 2 outbound links to other (related) sites of mine (which have a PR=0 and 2)
No other links, no hidden text, links or anything else.
I don't use the google toolbar, but a mozilla firefox extension to check the PR. Should be up to date as it just came out.

cheers

v.

[flood6]

Those "third party" PR indicators like the extension for firefox are known to be inconsistent. There are at least two different popular FF extensions that show PR. I have found both to often be inconsistent with what is shown in the IE toolbar and in the G directory.

If you have the firefox "googlebar" extension installed, go to tools->extensions (I'm in Linux right now, but I think it's the same for win), highlight googlebar and click on "options". From there go to the "New Additions" tab and read the "Tips" section. It explains a lot about the "third party" PR indicators.

[vampke]

Might be inconsistent sometimes, but in this case it's the same as with the google toolbar in IE
so the original question remains: why PR=0 for index page, but PR=2 for products page with no links to it?