How many internal pages

finnstones · 12-08-2003, 05:04 PM

how many internal pages maximize my PR score. If i make 1000 internal pages will that be better than 100 everything else equal. AT what point do i stop??

Rob · 12-09-2003, 02:09 AM

I don't think you can maximize your PR. 1000 pages is better than 100 pages.

burgi82 · 12-09-2003, 02:33 AM

If you have tons of pages, the PR on your site will be distributed to a lot of pages, therefore, to get one page, with the highest PR possible, you should only have one page in your entire website. Of course, this is not possible for most websites, so I would think that fewer pages are better for PR issues, but more pages would be better to get more of your sites indexed in the search engines, and therefore, potentially more traffic to your site.

I, Brian · 12-09-2003, 03:20 AM

As a general rule of thumb, lots of pages is good if you optimise the internal link architecture to focus PR on a few pages.

HOWEVER there's an algo known as "LocalRank" that devalues internal links - even across the same IP range (ie, xx.xx.xx.same). I've seen suspicions that Google implemented LocalRank some time ago, actually - but they have especially turned up the heat more recently.

As a particular example of this, my chronicles-network shows 40,000+ pages with allinurl: , all of which should be pointing to the main index page for the site - yet the PR for it has just dropped from 6 to 5. Contrast that to the other thread on this board where a single incoming PR6 link has given a single page on another site PR5.

In simple terms, better to get more inbound links from other sites, then increase your own internal pages for the sake of it.

gemsergio · 01-17-2004, 01:56 PM

Agree but if you make sure that every page on your site is linked with every other page your pr will increase and not decrease
make a 3 level structure