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If I have a PR4 for my homepage and have a link on it to each of my 100 pages, would these 100 pages all be PR3 if they're set up like so:
mydomain.com/index.html is PR4 and links to mydomain.com/page1.html, mydomain.com/page2.html, mydomain.com/page3.html etc right up to mydomain.com/page100.html. (ie 100 links from home page)
If each of these 100 pages then have a link back to the home page with my main keyword in it, have I not just made 100 easy, optimized PR3 links? And aren't they just as valuable as an external incoming PR3 link?
Is that correct or have I got it wrong, as I seem to remember reading about PR dilution as you go deeper into directories and also the more outbound links you have on a page.
Thanks.
mydomain.com/index.html (PR4) with 5 links to mydomain.com/page-a.html, mydomain.com/page-b.html, mydomain.com/page-c.html, mydomain.com/page-d.html and mydomain.com/page-e.html (therefore these 5 would be PR3).
Then from page-a (PR3) have 20 links to mydomain.com/page-1.html thru mydomain.com/page-20.html.
From page-b (PR3) have 20 links to mydomain.com/page-21.html thru mydomain.com/page-40.html
From page-c (PR3) have 20 links to mydomain.com/page-41.html thru mydomain.com/page-60.html etc until I have my 100 pages covered.
This way each of my 100 pages is linked to from a PR3 page with no more than 20 links, giving them PR2.
So I'd have 5 PR3s and 100 PR2s, which is better than the method in my first post which gave me 100 PR2s.
Have I got that right?
No no no no no. There is no hard and fast rule. But... one single link from the main page will likely make the second page PR4. One thousand links from the main page will likely make the others PR1 or zero.
In your case, I would definitely make a structure something like five links off your main page, then twenty links off the second pages. This gives you pages of different PR values, which allows you to make some pages more powerful than others, and doesn't dilute links from your main page. You could also do twenty links off the main page, with five links on each of those. It's rare that a site has 100 abolutely positively equal pages. Some will be battling for more competitive keywords than others, etc.
Thanks for your advice Steveb :)
<If I have a PR4 for my homepage and have a link on it to each of my 100 pages, would these 100 pages all be PR3 if they're set up like so:
mydomain.com/index.html is PR4 and links to mydomain.com/page1.html, mydomain.com/page2.html, mydomain.com/page3.html etc right up to mydomain.com/page100.html. (ie 100 links from home page)>
No.. the sub-pages do not have "home page PR less one" simply by virtue of being a sub-page. The PR of the sub-page depends on its incoming links, just like the PR of your home page.
The Google Toolbar will guess at a PR of a page that it does not have indexed, such as "PR of directory above less one", and this is what it will display, but this is not the page's PR and it does not use this PR when contributing to an outbound link.
<If each of these 100 pages then have a link back to the home page with my main keyword in it, have I not just made 100 easy, optimized PR3 links? And aren't they just as valuable as an external incoming PR3 link?>
Yes.. as long as they really are PR3 and not just being shown that way because the toolbar is guessing about an unindexed page.
To tell the difference, search for your page (specifically, by title and keywords if possible), and see if the page is in the SERPs. If not, the toolbar is guessing and the PR displayed in the toolbar does not mean anything to you as far as that page's ability to contribute PR to its outbound links.
