Am I overlooking something basic?

[altecdesign]

How is this site:

http://inhabitat.com/

hoarding all of their pagrank on their homepage?

[AlanMosley]

i dont think they are, what brings you to the conclusion that they are hording page rank on their homepage?

There are ways to push PR onto your homepage, see http://thatsit.com.au/seo/tutorials/a-simple-explanation-of-pagerank , but these guys dont seem to be doing so.

[altecdesign]

I totally agree but look at this:

Lets look at this page as an example:

http://inhabitat.com/about/

It is one click away from their PR 7 homepage with it's link being in the upper left of the page. (prime for passing a lot of PR)

After looking into it at first I thought my toolbar was messed up, then I checked the seomoz historical pagerank checker (I use the SEO Quake toolbar) and it also says this page has a PR of 0?

As I see it:

they are either doing something really sneaky (which I kind of doubt)

or Google's PR stats available to the outside world are messed up for this site???

[AlanMosley]

Google toolbar pr is of little use, it is only updated once every six months to a year, the about page could of been made since then.

Also the about page would only get a smal slice of the page rank.  the home page has almost 500 links.

Somebelieve that pages like policy about and contat, are treated differently also.

[altecdesign]

I thought about the lag in updated info from Google, but that page (with the exact url) has been there for over 5 years.

Also its not just the about page, it is literally every other page on their site except for their homepage is a void of reported pagerank.

I guess I am going to chalk this one up to an error in Google's external PR reporting system. I have seen PR delays, but I have never seen Google report only the homepage (of a site this big) has any sort of PR.