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dkumar
Joined: Apr 11, 2006
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Posted: 2006-Apr-11 13:17
Hey guys I hope you can help with my query. Last week the PR on several of the pages in my site increased from '0's and '1's to around a PR of '4', yet the pagerank of the homepage remains unchanged at '2'. Is it the case that google updates the PR toolbar for secondary pages in your website first and then updates the PR of the homepage (index page) at a later date?
I have also noticed this same behaviour on several high profile websites including break.com (sorry if this violates the form rules) which changed its domain name several months ago and now as pages with PR6 but with a homepage of PR1.
Has anyone else experienced this or know if this is common when google updates the PR toolbar??
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SportsGuy
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Posted: 2006-Apr-11 13:35
Welcome to the forums!
Google updates the toolbar, maybe, every 3 - 4 months - so don't hang your hat by it.
Many folks have noticed the exact same thing as you've posted recently - I'm one of them.
Don't sweat it. In fact, I personally think this sort of thing is MORE realistic, and here's why:
When folks post up links to things, they usually link to something they found interesting or helpful. So, in this example, I have a page on one site which is full of tech articles. Thus it's reasonable that more people would link to the main page of the tech articles, than to my site's main page. Thus the "value" of the articles main page is "higher" in Google's eyes, than that of my main page.
Seems counter-intuitive, I know, but we're human, and we usually think in terms of linear progression - top to bottom, front to back, left to right (or right to left depending on your culture (tips hat to others)) - bottom line is, WE follow patterns.
Spiders don't see things the same way, so to them, and the algorithm, it's all numbers - if more useful sites point to my tech artilces main page, THAT page will rank higher than my home page (which is a collection of lins to internal areas and some ever-changing content) - and well it should, because that's what the USERS SAY is important about the site.
Do I care?
Not a whit - a well ranked page is a well ranked page is a well ranked page. Get to the top for as many as possible and enjoy the overall volume of traffic they all provide, combined.
So, don't sweat it - it's just the way things go.
Having internal pages ranked higher in PR than your main page is the new black. 
...and as if that all weren't enough to explain it, here's some more:
Internal pages tend to get put up and left alone - thus they age at a steady rate, which helps establish them as "solid" resources when couped with good quality inbound links.
Your main page is usually the first to get refreshed - thus changing it's "personality" and showing the spiders two sides of one coin:
1 - it changes, so you should come back often and check for updates
2 - it changes, so it's not as solid a resources as that internal page that never changes
Now, I'll conclude by saying all of this is variable - there's nothing here written in stone and I'm sure many folks have main pages with higher PR values than internal pages. My statements above are purely based on my own observations of my own website and from thinking things through with, I'll admit, one too many lattes handy...
HTH
Duane
BTW - are you, by chance, one of THE Kumars, from England?
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dkumar
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Posted: 2006-Apr-11 13:52
Thanks for the answer Duane. I'm not one of the Kumars from the show but incidentally I live at house 43 not 42
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SportsGuy
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Posted: 2006-Apr-11 13:53
LMAO.
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mindygill
Joined: Mar 22, 2006
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Posted: 2006-Apr-12 09:29
I went to see the Kumars at No42, and my brother is about to marry a Kumar
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