How many pages in a site is too many?

Will fewer pages help PR?

[jtmoney77]

Hi,
Is it true that pages within a site share the PR. I have over 100 pages for one of my sites. I worry that this is too many. Do you think my PR would rise if I eliminated half of these pages?

Are fewer pages better for a website now days? I have some sites with 4 pages and their PR is as high as the one with 50. The one with 4 pages barely has any incoming links compared to the one with 50 pages. I wonder why it is so high?

Thanks,
Jeremy

[hannamyluv]

You can't have too many. ;-) Brett's tutorial reccomends that you should start with a 100 pages and build from there.

Yes, pages within a site share PR.

Read Brett's Tutorial. It's a nice read.
[webmasterworld.com...]

Remember, PR these days may not be doing you much. You should be more interested in how much traffic those sites get in corrolation to each other and make a decition based on your findings as to what works better for your sites.

[killroy]

The most important thing to remember isd that its PAGErank, not SITErank. EAch page have their own rank. More pages, more rank. So having 100 pages at PR4 is MUCH better then 5 pages at PR4. BEcause when you have 100 pages at PR4 you can link them in such a way to distribute the PR to a few specific pages, such as your homepage and raise it to PR6, which you couldn't with the smaller site.

So, the more the merrier. Of course each page must make sense to the visitor and the SE, and the navigation gets more complex the more pages you have. But PR wise, more is better. I've created pages with PR6+ with hardly any external links, simply by having a LOT of pages.

SN

[muztagh]

I think page rank is more important than the site rank. But in my experience and understanding site rank is also a key factor which can increase the page rank.
In some successful sites we can a lot of pages with very few real content and no incoming link at all, but it still can hold a good page rank.

I believe google has a way to evaluate the overall quality of the website including the user satisfaction, spam issue, site theme, site architecture ect.
If a site is recognized as a good site by google some individual pages of that site which has no content can still can have highr rank.

[jtmoney77]

If I were to eliminate 10 pages that are not that important, will my PR raise anywhere else since there will be 10 less pages to share PR?

Thanks in advance!

[RoySpencer]

we have over 60,000 pages at our weather site. No downside to having more pages (as far as I can tell).