Rank of inner pages

when they are not in the index

[Sinner_G]

How is it possible that some pages of my site have PR4 but are nowhere to be found?

E.g. www.sitename.com/index.asp has PR4, but is not found in the index and a search for link:www.sitename.com/index.asp returns empty.

[ciml]

Are those pages in the cache? If not (assuming that you don't use the noarchive meta tag), then it sounds like it's just the Toolbar guess for URLs that don't have any PageRank yet.

[Sinner_G]

How do I know if the pages are in the cache?

No, I don't use noarchive. So it probably means it is the 'guess'. Is this just based on the PR of the main page in that domain or does the googlebar include a 'light' ranking algo?

<edit> I guess it is the domain thing, as I just noticed all the pages have the same PR</edit>

[DaveN]

Hi sinner_g,

www.sitename.com/index.asp is not a good example....

I work in the IIS enviroment so when setting up a site in IIs you point the domain name to the start file - index.asp. Google will class www.sitename.com the same as www.sitename.com/index.asp..

If you get a pr4 on www.sitename.com/product1.html and www.sitename.com/product2.html I agree with ciml toolbar guessing.

tip: if you find www.sitename.com/index.asp and www.sitename.com both indexed by google track down the links to the index.asp page and change them to www.sitename.com (It helps not to spilt the number of in coming links pointing to your domain)

DaveN

[Sinner_G]

In my case, the server (also IIS) is with an ISP, so I dont think I can change the setup. There is an index.html page which redirects to the .asp.

And the page URLs include queries (blabla.asp?blabla=bla), which I suppose the toolbar could not read better than the spider.

Only the www.sitename.com is indexed, not the index.asp, which is because I only recently added an HTML link into the page. All pages linking to the site link to www.sitename.com.