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I know this is an old question and I don't have anything to add myself but I'd be interested in hearing if anyone has any thoughts on this because we're looking at doing a similar thing.

Does this tool still work?  Tried adding it today and no joy.

Thank you Adam, much appreciated.

Thanks for the responses guys.  Although the site is clearly in need of links, Open Site Explorer only shows a very small proportion of the links we have.  Maybe 5% of what's in Webmaster tools.  From what I've read on here it seems most people seem to have 40%+ shown in OSE, however it's much much lower than that for us.

Perhaps a lot of our links are quite deep links that Open Site Explorer hasn't managed to find however they are relevant links from sites in our niche so what I would consider relevant and high quality.

Sounds like from what you're saying, more links are needed anyway so I'll be focusing on that.  That said, I still don't know why my page rank dropped from 0 as at the time it barely had any links at all and it has 10 times what it had then, very odd.

Also, the site has so much unique user generated content, I'm at a bit of a loss on how to make even more content that would be of use!  I'm always getting linkback notification emails so I know there are loads of links, OSE just doesn't show them.

I think I understand the basic idea of mozRank and mozTrust, just confused as to how it's possible for a subdomain to have a lower score.  I guess only by having multiple sub domains can your overall root domain rank as high or higher than your subdomain...

I have set the preferred domain to the non www. site and all www. are 301'd to non www.  In sitexplorer if I view the www. then there is one followed link that is 301'd to the non www. site.  So that's why I'd have thought they'd be the same.

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They are all 0, even the home page.   Thank you very much for the help.

Just wanted to bump this in case anyone had any ideas?  Feel like we're missing a trick by not having good pagination on our forum.  Have been unable to find any way of adding this.

My website is around 2 years old and despite the fact the my site has 45,000 urls indexed and ranks highly for some competitive terms on Google, my pagerank is 0.

I appreciate that pagerank is not the be all and it would never have really concerned me, however around 1 month after the site was launched, it went up to PR1 before dropping to 0 on the next pagerank update where it has remained since (1.5 years later).

I haven't done any blackhat seo, nor would I have lost any good links at the time it dropped.  The site is much more established and ranks well for quite a lot of terms so why is it still Pagerank 0?  Could there be some sort of issue do you think?

Thanks

My site has everything in the root - test.com.   www.test.com is redirected to test.com and all content is in the root; there are no subdomains.

So I'm completely confused as to how the mozrank and moztrust are different.  They have the same number of links yet:

Subdomain:

MozRank - 3.72
MozTrust - 3.23

Root Domain:

MozRank - 3.05
MozTrust - 2.79

This seems consistent with all my competitors too so just wondered if someone could explain why the root domain is usually/often lower?  Surely the root domain numbers should always be equal to or higher than the subdomain?

If anyone has any ideas for this, would be most appreciated.  Thanks.

These links are the one's that got me thinking.

http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/subdomains-and-subdirectories/

http://www.webmasterworld.com/google/4339166.htm

Also, I was under the impression that sub forums on one domain were viewed as different sites in the SERPs but try searching for 'bodybuilding'.  You'll see www.bodybuilding.com at the top and a list of pages from that site and 2 further subdirectories are included (forum.bodybuilding.com and bodyspace.bodybuilding.com).

Although a personal preference only, I prefer subdomains and think forum.domain.com and blog.domain.com look much better than domain.com/forum and I would do it this way IF the rankings were unaffected.