Why do I have PR 0 on homepage when subpages have PR 2-3?

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Hey all

I've linked to my homepage more than any other page. Although it's ranking well, it still has a PR of 0, whereas the subpages on my site have PR of up to 3. Plus every subpage links directly back go my home page.

Why is that? How do I get do I increase my home page's PR?
#homepage #subpages
  • Profile picture of the author JayXtreme
    Each page on your website is ranked individually by Google.

    There are many factors that they take into account.

    Maybe links to your inner pages have more natural, strong inbound links to them. Google might be giving more weight to the content, too.

    It will help you to spend some time looking at your inner pages... the structure, content and links, to determine why Google has favoured those pages.
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  • Profile picture of the author dave147
    There must be more content relevancy, links, and even more visits to your subpages.
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  • Profile picture of the author SeekingWisdom
    yeah ..apparently number of hits to a page also matters for pagerank.
    So number of links, content relevancy, incoming links, people landing directly on the subpage...all may point to this scenario. Is this your case?

    If not, then certainly we have some other reason here which we need to know.
    Please do get back here.
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  • Profile picture of the author Andrea Wilson
    Maybe more visitors like your subpages better. Plain homepages are often ignored. Linking wont help much if the visitors are not interested to stay long on that page.

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  • Profile picture of the author joshuagan80
    How old is your domain name? Maybe that might be a factor too.
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  • Profile picture of the author Janice Sperry
    I would assume this happens to a lot of people. Usually on subpages you are trying to rank for different long tail keywords. Like others said there are multiple factors involved but in most cases your home page is your most competitive keyword and the hardest to get higher page rankings for.
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    • Profile picture of the author Snow_Predator
      Thanks all for your reply.

      Hmmm interesting point there Janice Sperry. I didn't realise it would be harder to get a high PR for a competitive keyword (though I know obviously that it's harder to rank for a competitive keyword). My homepage keyword IS my most competitive keyword.

      For everyone's information, my homepage gets 4,095 hits per month. My most frequented sub-page gets 922 hits per month (PR 2). My highest PR sub-page (The only page on my site with PR 3), gets 183 pageviews per month.

      Also according to Google Analytics, my homepage has the highest bounce rate because it's a direct salespage, so people aren't clicking through to anything but the order page. So people not spending much time on a page or clicking through perhaps has an impact?

      Hmmm click-through rate on a page. Gets me thinking, does it have anything to do with PR? Whenever I've found forum pages with high PR they mostly seem to have LOTS of links!

      But alas if that IS the case there's no way I'm gona put extra links on my home page. It's purpose is to sell, not to be high PR ^^.

      Thanks all again for your replies.
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