Page Rank differs when searching 1

[Stuartp]

Does anyone know why the PageRank reported in the Google Toolbar for a site is sometimes higher when the page is visted via Google than when going there directly?

As an example: visit

http://www.expansys.com/product.asp?code=2100GREY

- it has a PageRank of 1 / 10. Now do a search on Google for Nokia 2100 (grey) - result is

http://www.google.co.uk/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=nokia+2100+(grey)

- and choose the second result. The exact same page as far as I can see, only now it has a PageRank of 4 / 10

I would love an explanation of this. I have a client whose site has been listed for a couple of years and who used to have PageRanks of 1 or 2 on his dynamically generated pages which now have PR0. I suspect the reason is the same as above but cannot understand why this would happen.

Would appreciate any advice on this.

Thanks

Stuart

 

[ChrisHirst]

The Google toolbar is never accurate at the best of times, various factors stop the PR bit working properly. It's only a approximate measure (read guess) of PR that is shown on the toolbar anyhow and as PR only relates to backlinks, it will mean even less than nothing for a dynamic page where links will be 99.9% 'inhouse'
So the best thing is to don't worry about PageRank it means very little for SERP ranking anyway.

after all if PR was that important wouldn't Google be No 1 for this?

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=search+engine

Chris.

Indifference will be the downfall of mankind, but who cares?