Pagerank

[AmericanBulldog]

Can a page inside a domain get a higher pagerank than the domain itself.

For example can www.mydomain.com/xyz.html obtain a higher PR than www.mydomain.com?

I am about to start redoing pages and am wondering if it would be better to work on the /xyz.html which pulls twice the traffic of mydomain or to work on mydomain in order to affect a higher PR for both?

[bcc1234]

I guess, theoretically it's possible.
But the closest I had was a homepage with PR6 then pages with PR5..4..3 and one of the page several links deep which should be PR3 was PR6 because of a few strong incoming links to it.

It was not higher than the home page though.

[taxpod]

I've had a home page with a PR6 and several pages at the next level down also with a 6 but since this isn't real PR but rather the log value, and since eventually the home page got to 7, I'd have to guess that the home page was a high 6 as opposed to the other pages being lower sixes. The thing is that if you do your navigation right, chances are your home page will always get so much of your other pages PR on transfer that your home page will probably always have the highest real PR. And why shouldn't it. I don't know why you would want to have a higher PR on a lower page.

[AmericanBulldog]

Here's the thing...

The /xyz.html was actually the start of the site and has always pulled more than double the traffic of the domain.

I know use the domain to make more /abc.html and /def.html pages all to related subjects. As /xyz.html brings the majority of revenue for the site it is in my best interest to get higher rankings for this page and have the others follow along at their slower pace.

Another newbie question regarding PR, would crosslinking to a few non-related sites hurt my PR? Such as a widget site linking to a celebrity site and to an automobile site?
The reason I ask is one of the ways I use to launch new domains is to post prominent links to the other domains from my highly trafficked widget site. Also, I just like to show off my other sites, but of course I wont if it can cost me.

Last question, I have searched but couldn't find a definite answer, can pop ups pointing to internal pages hurt PR?

[bcc1234]

Last question, I have searched but couldn't find a definite answer, can pop ups pointing to internal pages hurt PR?

I don't think Googlebot processes javascript, so your popups (and links in them) will be simply ignored.

[seindal]

I have a site where the highest PR is 7, at the second level in the hierarchy and PR is propagating upwards. This second level page has many good inwards links while the top page has none whatsoever.

There are two other pages at the second level with PR6, but the top has PR5.

It is a bit atypical, because the site is a family thing. The top page just lists family members, while the actual pages are in each family member's folder one level down.

René

[MeditationMan]

AFAIK, there's no reason why an "inside" page can't have higher PR than the index page. All it would take is for more people to link to that page than to your index page, which is possible in theory.

As I understand it, linking to unrelated sites shouldn't hurt your PR. There will be a minor redistribution of PR away from your site, but that would happen whether the links were relevant or not, and the effect would likely be minimal anyway.

[AmericanBulldog]

Thanks for your responses...any other insights welcomed

[mack]

when you ask if a page within a domain can gather more PR than the domain it's self, what you need to remember is that domains do not have a PR value assigned to them only pages can have page rank so when we say yahoo.com has a pr10 what we are really saying is that yahoo.com/index.html has a pr10

Pr is entirely made up of from calculations reguarding the links that point to a page. so lets say for example you own a website called foo.com you build a new page called foo.com/foobar if your main home page has a pr5 and google decided to link to /foobar from their homepage then for sure you woudl have an internal page with more page rank than your intended homepage.

hope this helps.

[BigDave]

Yes, I have several pages that are higher than my home page, simply because I want it that way. If your content is down deeper, why shouldn't you want to concentrate the PR where it matters.

My PR 5 home page is only good as the point to spread the PR wealth as far as my site is concerned.

I have pages set up for some outside parties to link to all the content that concerns them. Some of these are PR6 and they drive most of their PR down to the deepest content levels. All these PR6 pages have only one incoming link, and that is from PR7 pages.

If all my incoming links were straight to my home page, I would probably hava a PR7, but not where it would be the most useful. I also would not have all the links that I currently have, as the link to my home page would be of less value to the outside link sources.

As I get more of these links, I expect that the PR will eventually filter up till the home page has the most PR. Till then I am quite happy with the way things are.