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This seems very odd to me! Anyone else?
index.html page has PR 0 but internal pages have PRs 3 to 4.
Pete
ga_ga, it sometimes happens that internal pages are found before the index page. Again: how old is your site?
shady, I must admit that I do not understand your post. Are you mentioning the same page twice with two different PR's?
The other weird thing is that I used to have around 120 links if I typed 'link: myurl' into Google. Now it comes up with nothing. My home page still comes up if I search for a keyword though.
Anyone figure out what's going wrong? Have I done something that's against Google's laws? I certainly can't figure it out.
By the way, the site is almost exactly one year old.
The same page yes, but using two different methods of retrieval
1) www.xxx.com PR5
2) www.xxx.com/default.php PR0
I think I have found the problem and wonder whether this may apply to anyone else?
All backward links except one link to www.xxx.com
The other link (which is probably the highest PR) was linking to xxx.com (without www.)
I have found the xxx.com/default.php has a PR4 where www.xxx.com/default.php has a PR0.
My guess is that it is to do with the fact that google treats sites as different with the www. and without. Therefore, it is treating the page as duplicate and pr0ing the lower rated page.
I have had the link changed from xxx.com to www.xxx.com which will hopefully :) solve the problem.
There must be some ongoing changes on how the index or "main" page is given PR.
Until recently (a few days ago) my index.php page always had my top directory PR minus 1.
I've checked after your post, and realize now that both / and /index.php have PR6, which is good news for me but reflects a change in the algo... showing up in the opposite direction for me ;)
There is no reason for your page to show PR0, so my guess is that it should come back to "normal" soon.
With more than 3 billion pages in the index, any change in the algo could show some weird intermediate results, and some discrepancies amongst different sites.
I hope that your default page PR only means "not (re-)computed yet"
Dan
But it is quite normal that a page shows different results if it is called different names. There is the old problem with www or not www. And there is the other old problem with www.something.com/ or www.something.com/index.html (or what you choose to call your main page). shady's solution ought to work.
I have said it many a times I think PR is overrated. A good optimized page is all you need with quality links.
Surely the importance of PR is overrated by many webmasters. But do remember that a white bar is not necessarily a 0 but may just be below 1.
My link popularity went down some but it's still about 900 links pointing at my home page. After this last update my traffic dropped to half of what it was before. And my other pages still have the same PR as last month?
Why would my 4th level drop from PR2 to PR0? I don't get it?
Those of you who don't feel pagerank is important, can you please lend me a nice and juicy 9 please? ;)
A drop from PR2 to lower than 1 seems a little dramatic when there are no PR changes on higher levels, but there may be good explanations. Maybe your higher levels dropped from high 6, 5 and 3 to low ones. Maybe you changed your internal linking. Maybe Google changed their algo so that internal links distribute less PR.
Nutsandbolts, you can have 4 PR2's and one PR1. :)
