home page PR less than innner pages

PR of home page lesser than inner pages

[maswee]

Hi all

Can anyone clarify if homepage PR can be lesser than inner pages when we are targeting homepage for link exchange or is this a result of changes going on google?

Does that happen with anyone else as its there for one of my client site?

Thanks

[conor]

This is seen quite frequently, on newer sites. The toolbar really doesnt show reliable data any more. The apparent PR distibution usually takes a couple of updates to settle down. No need to worry.

[MrRoy]

I m facing the similiar problem for my site. My main page PR which was earlier 4, is now showing 0 whereas the sub sectional pages PR is 2 and 3. How can it be possible? M not getting any clue? can anybody plz explain? Thanks in advance.

[anchordesk]

I have a general site active since 1995 with a consistant homepage PR 2, but all other pages are either 5 or 6.

To clarify, the home page contains just a logo ... a dead-end. All entry by visitors comes via SEs to internal pages, bookmarks and links. I sometimes wonder if I tied all site content together in an interesting manner to the homepage, if I could get it up to a PR7. I'm just not motivated enough to try yet.

[Dominic_X]

This is an issue with the latest google PageRank update, it is effecting quite a few sites. What tripped the wire? I'd like to know myself, perhaps it's just a new homepage penalty, it is not known yet why it is happening.

[Dominic_X]

Who else has experienced this and what a re hte details: e.g.

We have a new subdomain: christmas.homeless.org.au

Subdomain homepage came our at PR4, internal pages at PR5.

It is a charity site and ppl donated links from a few places, including sitewide links from some sites.

What other experiences have people had with this PR update effecting the homepage?

Is it new sites, subdomains, inbound sitewide links, PR penalty for homepages... I have no idea!

[seoArt]

This has happened to a few of my newer sites. The homepage has started of with a PR one or two numbers lower than the internal pages. With one site, it fixed itself in the next PR update.

Someone posted in a thread that it could be because Google was splitting the PR between the url with the www. and without, but that wasn't the case for my sites because I do 301 redirects on all of them.

[JuniorOptimizer]

I have a subdomain sudomain.mysite.com. It is linked via sitewide links from mydomain.com

It's a directory.

The main page has PR 3. The first level of subcategories, linked from the main page are all 4. The categories beneath them are 3.

It looks like a really odd distribution to me.

[joeking]

As I mentioned in another thread, I have a site with homepage PR0 and internal pages PR4. Newish site. I was amazed to see the internal pages had PR4. No external links to any of them.