Inner page rank higher than domain

[barabis77]

Hey there,

Today my site received it's first Google pagerank and noticed something strange.

My domain got a PR of 2 whilst most of the other inner pages got PR1, so far so good.

But then one particular inner page which is just 2 weeks old and has zero backlinks has PR 3.

I'm not one to fixate on PR but this just struck me as weird.

What do you guys think?

[JamesNorquay]

My guess is that that specific page has a larger percentage of external links pointing to it (higher then your home page), could also be due to the fact that your internal link structure is placing favor on this page.

[barabis77]

Thats the strange thing page has zero back links.

Still not going to lose any sleep over it!

Thanks for the reply

[YannickVeys]

No mentions in social media? Facebook, Twitter? Typing link:www.domain.com/pr3page in google might not give you a full overview. Neither will OSE and neither will all tools combined. So you might have missed some links. Check you analytics to see if any visiters entered your site via that page and via a referral.

[barabis77]

Well now you mention it I did do an email campaign but I assumed that any links from an email client wouldnt have much of an effect.

The reason I'm pretty sure there isnt any backlinks it due to the page only being about 2 weeks old and I havent actually built any.

It just seems weird a 2 week old page is the highest ranking page on the site.

[RyanKent]

Is the page more important the other pages? It is more informative, written in a higher quality manner, have a great infographic or tool on it, or otherwise related to a currently trending topic? Any of these reasons can lead to a page earning more links.

Follow Yannick's advice and search for pages linking to you. Also check your Google WMT for pages linking to you. As Yannick mentioned, check your Analytics for your traffic sources. These are all clues to the puzzle.

[YannickVeys]

Might have something to do with: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/11/giving-you-fresher-more-recent-search.html

[RyanKent]

I think your first response nailed it Yannick but I disagree with the second one. The freshness algorithm adjustment for specific keywords should not have any affect on a page's PR.

[YannickVeys]

It should not no But we still don't know how google computes PR. But yes, this is a long shot, compared to my first response

[EricaMcGillivray]

Small note: You don't get link juice from email links. Just traffic if they click.