Look at the toolbar

[scisoft]

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Originally posted by scisoft
The pagerank does not mean anything, the toolbar just approximates.
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Originally posted by WilliamC
[B]Huh? Why do people think this?

I have seen at least 3 people this past week saying this.

I have noticed on several forums, that immediatelly you start a new thread, you can see a pagerank for this brand new page. therefore I believe that it just approximates. I am starting this thread and ....

[scisoft]

... 1 second after posting, i can see pagerank 1 at my toolbar. For most sites, the toolbar GPR is updated ones in a couple of weeks. I do not believe that G updated database immediatelly after I made this post:)
Conclusion -> the toolbar approximates (probably for some tipe of dynamical pages only)

[qwerty]

For new pages, the toolbar generally approximates a PR based on the page's position within a site and the PR of pages that hold a similar position.

[Net Wizard]

see my reply on the other thread :D

[Danny]

For new pages, the toolbar generally approximates a PR based on the page's position within a site and the PR of pages that hold a similar position.
I used to believe that too and in fact, one year ago this was absolutely true.
However, due to some discussion in another thread, i created a new page on my site (a pure static HTML page) and to my surprise the page got a PR0

[Papadoc]

I'd come to the conclusion that there is some sort of inheritance factor going on. So that if the page is linked to by a PR 6, it might inherit some of that and pick up a 2-3 PR. I’ve seen this in my owe directory structures and played with it a bit. By creating links from higher level pages, the internal pages seem to benefit than if linked to by lower rank pages.

There also seems to be a bleed-off. Like if a PR 6 home links to directory/page.html, that page might get a 2-3 out of it. But if that page then links to directory/subdirectory/page.html, it might only get a 1 and then from that point on it is a zero.

This of course would correlate strongly with the fact that internal linking structures are critical, not only to an SE finding a page, but also determining it’s importance. Interestingly enough, the PR of sub-pages seems to jump a bit after a few days. Like a subpage will start at 2-3 and then move to 3-4 after a Google index. That however, is just my observation and the only based on rather unscientific methods.

[joker]

I used to believe that too and in fact, one year ago this was absolutely true. However, due to some discussion in another thread, i created a new page on my site (a pure static HTML page) and to my surprise the page got a PR0
And what did you hope it have to receive??? It will and MUST be PR0 till the next Google update ;)

[Danny]

And what did you hope it have to receive???
Hope ? Nothing but an additional explanation why pages can show a PR without showing up in the SERP's.

BTW, personally i don't care about PR. The only thing i'm really interested in, is the site's rankings for its keywords.
On the other hand, a high PR is interesting to have a others link to the site. Some people hesitate to exchange links with PR3 (or less) pages.
Hmmm, PR mania it is ! ;)