I was lurking in Graywolf’s SEO Blog when I realised is PR was rather constant. On each and every of his blog page you would find a PR of 4. Here’s what my explanations are: Google doesn’t differentiate www.yoursite.com/?p=123 from www.yoursite.com/?p=17. The question though is “Does Google see them as different page, ALL with a PR of 4?” If so, this would lead to an interesting hole that could be exploited. I’ll give it a try and see if I can get better ranking just by using the same page which will provide different content based on the PHP variables.
Google is actually smart enough to tell the difference. If you look at new posts compared with old posts you’ll see the old ones have PR the new ones don’t. The balanced PR you see is because the site fully is fully meshed. The monthly archives are on every page and they distribute the PR to each of the individual posts rater evenly. The top 100 section also helps even things out.
You’ve done a pretty good job then because the PR is distrubuted almost all over your blog. Mine is not really even, might work on that since it must really help getting better rankings.
What’s actually really interesting is that you have a page from yesterday (May 24) ehich as already a PR. Would have Google only taken 1 day or less to give you that PR or it’s simply that what I said above might be somehow true?
Are you using a PR checking tool or a toolbar? IF I fire up IE with the toolbar installed I get nothing for the posts this week. In the few rare instances when I have to look at PR I look at it there because the firefox tool isn’t 100% accurate, which my be what you’re seeing.
Yea, that’s exactly what must be happening. I’m currently using the http://www.quirk.biz/searchstatus/ tool bar, I’m pretty sure it’s not “that” accurate. I guess you right then, it might have just fooled the toolbar
Huh. What a sad thing. At least it’s great to see the engines aren’t getting fooled.