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The Leader
07-01-2009, 09:05 PM
I had one of my link pages go from PR0 to PR1 which is strange because it has got hardly any inbound links but buckets loads of outbound links.
The page is a couple of years old which probably means it got PR based on age.
Duke
07-01-2009, 10:26 PM
I had one of my link pages go from PR0 to PR1 which is strange because it has got hardly any inbound links but buckets loads of outbound links.
The page is a couple of years old which probably means it got PR based on age.

Is it possible that it's just link juice from an internal link from another part of your site? I don't think I've ever heard of PR based on page age?
The Leader
07-02-2009, 09:08 PM
Is it possible that it's just link juice from an internal link from another part of your site? I don't think I've ever heard of PR based on page age?

the page should have negative pr cause off all the links going out!
Duke
07-02-2009, 11:58 PM
I don't think there's any such thing as negative PR, you either have PR or you don't.
The Old Sarge
07-03-2009, 03:08 PM
Unless of course there's some provision for "owing" PR. :)
The Leader
07-05-2009, 08:44 PM
I'm starting to think that there is no negative pr for outbounds links, probably so you are encourage to link to other sites!
SnickyH
07-07-2009, 07:02 PM
I had one of my link pages go from PR0 to PR1 which is strange because it has got hardly any inbound links but buckets loads of outbound links.
The page is a couple of years old which probably means it got PR based on age.

I would agree with you, if you have outbound links to quality site the Search Engine probably views your page as a relative source... The age is what increased your PR to a 1 more than likely
Jyoti
07-08-2009, 04:06 AM
I'm starting to think that there is no negative pr for outbounds links, probably so you are encourage to link to other sites!
The Old Sarge
07-08-2009, 02:37 PM
Just be careful of linking to too many "bad neighborhoods".
James21
07-08-2009, 07:45 PM
Generally speaking, I would say that inbound links are not as important, and can even screw up your quality link percentage. You are possibly right about the age leading to the increase in rank. I don't think it has much to do with your inbound links...
The Leader
07-08-2009, 10:26 PM
I wonder what would happen if I put a link out to a PR9 site?
Would is suck the pr juice out or give some credit it?
The Old Sarge
07-09-2009, 11:49 AM
Conventional wisdom (whatever that is) states that a higher PR site cannot draw PR from a lower PR site. PR, like water, flows down, not up.

That does not mean, however, that the lower PR site cannot benefit from a link to the higher PR site.

I have a couple different pages that have increased PR by linking to very high PR pages. At least I think they have. There is no other reason I can nail down.
The Leader
07-10-2009, 04:20 AM
I've linked my homepage to twitter and facebook so I'll see what happens!
The Old Sarge
07-10-2009, 02:12 PM
I've linked my homepage to twitter and facebook so I'll see what happens!

Where do the links land? I think the landing page is the real key, not just the domain. Afteral, each page has it's own PR.
The Leader
07-21-2009, 06:14 AM
Where do the links land? I think the landing page is the real key, not just the domain. Afteral, each page has it's own PR.

Good Point - both pages are high PR even though they are subdomains!
The Leader
08-09-2009, 08:06 AM
Absolutely nothing happened that I can tell!
The Leader
08-21-2009, 08:34 AM
Absolutely nothing happened that I can tell!

Well two of my sites dropped abit so I removed the links to twitter and facebook and the sites went up again!
The Old Sarge
08-21-2009, 04:47 PM
So, do you think Twitter and Facebook are bad neighborhoods?
The Leader
08-24-2009, 08:54 AM
So, do you think Twitter and Facebook are bad neighborhoods?


Not according to the Bad Neighborhood program but it may just be coincidental that I had problems!
mdurkee
01-25-2010, 03:46 PM
Is page rank only related to Google?
The Old Sarge
01-25-2010, 05:24 PM
Is page rank only related to Google?

Yes. PR is a function of some secret alogrithm Google uses. In fact, I think Google actually holds a copyright on "Page Rank".
sbimonline.com
01-31-2010, 09:26 PM
One of the most important things when creating 'valuable' links back to your site is how you structure your links. Anchor text containing keywords is particularly important. Without anchor text you link is worth much less... What is anchor text you ask? It is the text you use to describe your link, as highlighted in red below.

<a href=”http://www.thefreeseoguide.com” > The Free SEO Guide </a>

Here's an article talking about link building strategies including anchor text.

Link SEO : How to actually optimize the links you build. (http://www.thefreeseoguide.com/content/chapter-eleven-link-seo-how-actually-optimize-links-you-build)
Daystroy
02-01-2010, 08:09 AM
I wonder what would happen if I put a link out to a PR9 site?
Would is suck the pr juice out or give some credit it?
Hey The Leader if you get an imbound link from a PR9 that is relevant to your content, be prepared to be first or second page of google search engine. Link from a PR9 is like winning the lottery, that's how rare and how much juice that link raelly means. BTW your site can be PR0 with little or no links and I seen it before.
The Old Sarge
02-01-2010, 01:36 PM
Hey The Leader if you get an imbound link from a PR9 that is relevant to your content, be prepared to be first or second page of google search engine. Link from a PR9 is like winning the lottery, that's how rare and how much juice that link raelly means. BTW your site can be PR0 with little or no links and I seen it before. (emphasis/bolding added)

How, specifically, does high PR translate into better placement in search engine results?

If high PR did that, all the results would be arranged in decending PR order ... which they decided are not.
Phil Staff
02-03-2010, 10:24 AM
PR is getting less and less important. Even Google clearly says to stop focusing so much on PR and focus more on the other important factors out of 200 things they review.

Want proof? You can read it on Google's site here: http://sites.google.com/site/webmasterhelpforum/en/faq--crawling--indexing---ranking#pagerank

I am on the first page of Google and I don't have any PR9 links. I think my highest back link is a PR4 which is what my site is now. But I do have great content that is keyword targeted and updated often as well as a good relevant link exchange directory of sites 'beneficial' to my end user.

It is impossible to prove that one PR9 back link will bounce any site to the top of the SE results without anything else being considered. There are just too many factors Google considers.

Phil Staff