Does number of pages in a site affect its Google PR?

[virtualmisc]

Hi
I wanted to know if the number of pages in a site
really did matter in its page rank?
Thanks

[dburk]

Hi virtualmisc,

No, websites do not have PR only web pages do. The number of pages on your website has no direct bearing on your pages's PR.

How many pages that link directly or indirectly to your page is what PR represents. It doesn't matter which website those pages are part of, only how many that link directly or indirectly to your page.

[freddie65]

Page rank is not only about the number of pages that link to you, but more importantly the relevance of the web pages that link to your site.

[dburk]

Originally Posted by freddie65

Page rank is not only about the number of pages that link to you, but more importantly the relevance of the web pages that link to your site.

Hi freddie65,

I haven't seen evidence of that. Do you mind if I asked where you got that information from?

[Lawyer007]

every URL is treated as a unique page meaning each page on your site has a PR... You could have only 3 pages in your site and still achieve a high PR if you have quality links and content.... you need to be a resource in Google's eyes

[InternetMarketingIQ]

As noted PAGE RANK is not SITE RANK.

[Michael Nguyen]

Originally Posted by freddie65

Page rank is not only about the number of pages that link to you, but more importantly the relevance of the web pages that link to your site.

This is what Google have you believe. It makes sense doesn't it to have relevency... Matt Cutts says it, lots of websites say it, probably Google webmasters say it.

Really it doesnt work like that.

[brp002]

Bottom line if your website is massive you will rank higher..... Be as big as possible... The more indexed pages the better you are off.

[sstoney200]

very good thread, i found this searching on google for 'do number pages affect pr'! Thanks for the comments peeps! I always wondered if the number of pages mattered, but I guess it's still good to grow your site!

[gtk29]

What I think is this :
more pages = more content = more traffic = more clicks = $$$

[JacksonRiddle]

If you have a nice internal linking structure with links pointing to those inner pages, then yes it should increase the PR. However, it is just one of the factors google looks at there are many more things needed to increase PR but good inner pages is one of them.

[socialbookmark]

IMO the number of internal links on a website can't change the page rank of this website but can effect on the pagerank of those links. I mean the lower pagerank juices to them. Its what i think.

[kaiserthesage]

Number of pages of a site "does" affect your "homepage's" pagerank! Here's a simple explanation mate:

if you have many pages in your site that are all linking to the homepage (well, that is necessary of course), then all of your other pages are passing pagerank juice to the homepage (if links to your homepage are followed), so here's a more in-depth view of the concept: if your other pages are optimized, specifically if you've built links pointing to your other pages, then it means that those pages are getting pagerank juice from external sites, in which those pages are capable of helping the homepage to get more juice, right? so the number of pages does matter

[webapex]

It's one of those cause and effect issues. Why ar top ranked sites predominantly .com do the search engines like .com domains 10x more than a .net like some domainers do, or do they dominate the top search results because the serious developers only want to invest the rank building effort in quality .com at the start.

Likewise you will find the top ranked sites in search results do have a lot of pages, whether this is a direct influence on seo or is the byproduct of a site that been under steady development for years may be hazy, it is known that regularly updating a site with new content is what brings the spiders back to re-index the site. Before you know you've accumlated an archive of old, formerly fresh content.

[jesus72knight]

It seems that RELEVANCY is a myth or long dead. it doesn't apply now.

[dburk]

Originally Posted by jesus72knight

It seems that RELEVANCY is a myth or long dead. it doesn't apply now.

Hi jesus72knight,

Relevancy was never part of the PageRank algorithm. However it is the MOST important part of any SEO effort.

PageRank is mainly used as a weighting factor for relevancy.

[clayhilda55]

I think PR nowadays are not so important not unless you are selling links so I think it is best to focus more on ranking.

[jobsusajobs]

Thanks I was searching for this. The conclusion that i derived from the discussion is to have lots of pages and thus lots of indexed pages to move to higher page ranks.

[webworm]

Originally Posted by dburk

Hi virtualmisc,

No, websites do not have PR only web pages do. The number of pages on your website has no direct bearing on your pages's PR.

How many pages that link directly or indirectly to your page is what PR represents. It doesn't matter which website those pages are part of, only how many that link directly or indirectly to your page.

He is absolutely right.The websites ranking is done according to the ranks of pages.