What causes internal pages to have a page rank of 0 if the home page is PR 5?
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The home page PageRank is 5 but every single internal page is PR 0.
Things I know I need to address each page has 300 links (Menu problem).
Each article has 2-3 duplicates caused from the CMS working on this now.
Has anyone else had this problem before? What things should I look out for to fix this issue. All internal linking is follow there is no page rank sculpting happening on the pages.
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Hi Kyle,
The menu is straight HTML atm, so that is causing a problem with the links per page. 300-500 links on most pages. I am working on getting this recoded to work as an AJAX call to only load the parts of the menu the user wants to see.
Thanks for your help!
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What technology is being used for your navigation? If you are using javascript for dropdowns or links that will definitely effect your link juice flowing to internal pages.
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Hi James, No there are all do-follow tags. The pages themselves have several hundred links as well.
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Do you have a no follow tags placed on the internal link structure?
You can try and add a few footer links too to related pages and see if they pass PR.
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Yeah external links aren't the problem there is over 1 million external links pointing to the domain level.
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Do you have a decent amount of links pointing at these internal pages currently? If not, that would be the second step (after the menu problem).
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