Google PageRank question

[Ioannis]

I am trying to make sense of Google's PageRank.

I have a main domain at www.whatever.com as a software selling site and within
this domain I have the subdomain ioannis.whatever.com as a personal website.

Most of the movement takes place inside the subdomain. The www.whatever.com
domain is very slow.

Google however reports a PageRank of 3 for the subdomain while for the entire
domain it reports a PageRank of 5.

Is this consistent? One would think that the subdomain which has the most
traffic should get the highest rating.

Can anyone enlighten me? Thanks.

 

[David Segall]

I am trying to make sense of Google's PageRank.

I have a main domain at www.whatever.com

I am almost certain that you don't but, in fact, somebody else does.
It is polite to use www.example.com for this purpose. See
<http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2606.txt>