Page Rank - Hitting the Top

I tell a lot of people that inside links count. Refer pages, from inside your website count. At www.inspiredauthor.com I have several pages with only an internal link menu (static) linked to other pages in the site - no off site links. The archive has 1000 pages in it. Most of the pages on this site have PR2 and PR3. Now, that shouldn't give them PR3, because there are not enough links. But you need to remember that the pages are all linked from similar keyword pages, and similar topics. They are also attached to the main page with a higher PR.

I have also been on a PR8 page that was nothing more than a form. However, several thousand pages linked to that form, even though only a few dozen people had access to the actual form.

Take a look at your blogger dashboard. I am sure that you haven't built up more than 100 000 links to your dashboard, but it has PR7 or PR8. That is because of the inside links.

Page rank is also not first level only. Second level will also effect your PR. Obviously, www.inspiredauthor.com proves that 1000 links from similar keywords, to a level 5 depth, will equal PR3 when the stats say that you need 3000 - 4000 links to achieve this. All intersting, as www.inspiredauthor.com is just a landing page. The home page of the site is www.inspiredauthor.com/v3/blog

So, the important thing to remember is that linking from one post inside your blog to another of a similar topic, will also work toward increasing your PageRank.

Now, if you get a couple of PR8 pages hidden deep in your blog or your page, can you link your home page to them and increase the PR of your homepage? Yes - because search engines cannot think. They cannot understand words or language - they just do what they are told.