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I think I just solved it thanks to SEOMoz tools. More than half the pages on the site have a rel canonical pointing at the home page. It was under Crawl Notices, which I have up to now ignored.

That should explain the NA!

Keri:

The site is about 4 months old in its current iteration. It's a wordpress site, but it replaced a Joomla site. The PR N/A is frustrating us. With the home page having a PR 3, the other pages should have some PR, at least a 0.

With the SEOmoz tools, GWT, etc, we aren't getting any errors. Google is indexing the pages. I don't get it.

Andy:

The site is about 4 months old in its current iteration. It's a wordpress site, but it replaced a Joomla site. The PR N/A is frustrating us. With the home page having a PR 3, the other pages should have some PR, at least a 0.

With the SEOmoz tools, GWT, etc, we aren't getting any errors. Google is indexing the pages. I don't get it.

As per a Whiteboard friday on this site, you can add a #1, etc after a link and have both links count. Easy way to solve the problem.

I ran the SEOMoz onpage diagnostic, and i got an alert for keyword cannibalization. My taxonomy is:

www.mysite.com

www.mysite.com/category  (category page)

www.mysite.com/category/category-keyword (supporting page)

Links will be exact match in the primary navigation.

www.mysite.com  anchor text "category" => www.mysite.com/category

www.mysite.com anchor text "category keyword" => www.mysite.com/category/category-keyword

www.mysite.com/category anchor text "category keyword" => www.mysite.com/category/category-keyword

and example would be /IT-support linking with anchor text "IT Support Servers" => /IT-Support/IT-Support-Servers

I'm not going to have a cannibalization problem, am I?

Can anyone else answer this?

I need a better understanding of how links in different parts of the page pass juice. Much has been written about how footer links pass less juice than other parts of the page. The question I have is that if a page has a hypothetical 1000 points of Link Juice and can pass on +/-800 points via links, and I have 1 and only 1 link in the footer to another page, does it pass the full 800 points? Or... since  footers only pass a small fraction of link juice, it passes lets say 80 points, and the other 720 points stays locked up on the page. This question is a hypothetical - I'm just trying to understand relationships.

I don't know if I've explained the question too well, but if someone could answer i it, or point me in the right direction, I would appreciate it.

Andy, thanks for your help, but I understand pagerank and ranking factors.  The NA is indicative of a problem getting the pages indexed correctly. I have had the problem before on other sites, and it was indicative of a problem with  the site's setup.

One site I was working on had the same symptoms. The home page was www.yoursite.com/directory/index.html. All of the inbound links (thousands)  went to  yoursite.com, no redirect to www. All of the www pages were NA and unranked.  We changed the home page and redirects. Boom. PR3, and all kinds of high rankings.

After we made the changes, it took about a week for the PRs to change.

I do use mozrank, and the ranking factors from Majestic, as well. And pagerank is not unimportant. It is extremely important. It is just less important than it used to be.

The site is a few months old in its current iteration. i use google webmaster tools, and the site has been fetched recently after I discovered the problem. No known issues on GWT. The pages are getting indexed.  As I said, the home page is a PR3. Other pages  on the site should at least have a PR1. Our About page is a PR0. It should probably be a PR2.

Hi All! We have a small e commerce site, www.ruggedpcstore.com, built on Wordpress. The home page has a PR of 3, our About page is a PR 0, and all other pages are PR N/A. We've been pulling our hair out trying to fix what's wrong. Any ideas?

Irving:

Is there anything wrong with www.mysite.com/hr-outsourcing/hr-outsourcing-solutions from a ranking perspective?

From my point of view, it's easier to keep things organized.

And Mysite.com/hr-outsourcing and mysite.com.hr-outsourcing/hr-outsourcing-solutions are separate pages with the long-tail reinforcing the parent in the Silo.

Wow! I did not know that folders don't push rank. So if my keyword is "hr outsourcing", does www.mysite.com/hr-outsourcing-solutions push rank?Can I assume that it does?

Which of these is the better taxonomy?

www.mysite.com/hr-outsourcing/hr-outsourcing solutions

www.mysite.com/hr-outsourcing/solutions

Thanks for the help. Can you give me an example of gathering info a little at a time?  A website that does this? Remember, I am trying to get leads, not make a sale. We will be giving away a white paper.  Any other ideas are welcome.

We are an IT services firm. A conversion for us is completion of a lead form. Generally speaking, is it better to have a form to fill out in the sidebar on most organic pages, or a button that takes you to a lead form?

I see both used, which do you think converts better?

in Wordpress, I want to block Google from crawling my site using the primary navigation. I want to use anchor text links in the body and custom menus in the sidebar to make maximum benefit of the "first link counts" rule.

In short, I want to obfuscate all of the links in my primary navigation without using the dreaded nofollow. I do not want to block other links to the pages - body text, custom menus, etc. . This would be site wide. I'd rather not use Ajax or any type of programming unless it's part of a plugin.

Can anyone make a simple, Google-friendly suggestion?

This is a fairly common question, but I am going to ask it again. I want to get ranked for many keywords: "hr outsourcing sheboygan", "HR outsourcing duluth", etc., all in my small state.

Doing some random research, there are few if any pages with exact match phrases in the URL, Title, Etc. = No competition) Moreover, Google is not popping google places ads for these terms.

My plan is to create fairly unique pages on my site optimized for each town.  Right now, the pages are at 65% duplicate. I would assume that all of my pages will have some degree of duplication - there are similar elements on every page.

If I run the content through a duplicate content tester, is there a % of unique content that would be fairly safe to avoid the duplicate content slap? Yes, I know it's more complicated than that semantic, heuristic, etc. - just looking for some general guidelines.